What else I've been doing

Edited to correct typos and to add the leopard frogs and the thistle.

In no particular order:

Lying around in bed with David talking about Buffy. (I would never have believed that this would happen.)

Lying around in bed with Raphael, quoting Fafblog to one another and collapsing in hysterical laughter. (I am not at all surprised by this; it reminds me of the time when either of us could simply remark, "Wah!" in a vaguely surprised tone and instantly evoke the entirety of the "Monorail" episode of The Simpsons.)

Having some good conversations with Eric, mingling the scholarly and the sentimental, and trying to dig up some of the difficulties we had earlier in the relationship, now that we can look at them from a less biased vantage point.

Glaring at both my books to no avail.

Rereading Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James, Diana Wynne Jones.

Reveling in the glorious cool weather.

Having my usual lunch with my mother and admiring her miniature creations. She bought herself a dollhouse kit when she retired, but has been too busy to actually do anything about it until recently, when she decided that she had to stop watching and reading so much of the news lest she go insane.

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