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Aaaaaargh today is kind of boring.

So Andrew and I are both feeling much better now. We took him to a clinic over the weekend and they said he had some sort of opportunistic post-flu infection and gave him antibiotics and he slept most of the rest of the day and has been improving ever since. I had my three or four days of wanting to sleep really really badly (but mostly fighting against it because I'm weird) and now I'm done. I might have had a fever on one of those days. By this weekend I suspect we'll both be back up to speed. There may be spring cleaning.

BotCon is soon! Like really soon! Eek! There's been so much going on that I don't really have much spending cash put away, but given that the dealers' room these days is 95% stuff I already either bought or passed up on at retail and 5% stuff I could have bought at a quarter of the price ten years ago if I really wanted it spending cash isn't a huge deal. I will have to try to sweet-talk someone into selling me that Leozack. Has that even been announced? I don't even know. I've always been bad at keeping up with that kind of thing. I'm so behind on the news it's all gonna be awesome surprises. It's nice to be surprised.

Everybody's going on about Star Trek, so I suppose I should too. I thought the time travel aspect, while kind of cheezy in concept, really helped validate this offshoot universe without invalidating the original. I agree with some reviews I've read that Kirk comes off as kind of an unlikable douchebag, but everything else was engaging enough to overcome that, and he did often get his comeuppance, even if he also got, you know, totally undeserved command of a starship. It still felt like a genuine, authentic Star Trek movie rather than a remake. I just wonder if we'll see these new actors show up on the convention circuit.

Now that I have Meridith at 80 and geared for Heroics for values of "Heroics" that = "Heroics with friends who have really good DPS and don't mind dragging my sorry ass through", I'm feeling a strong urge to nest a bit in WoW and just hang around RPing. I couldn't even manage Naxx last weekend without trying to RP with people. I've been reminded lately that what I tend to find most compelling in RP is relationships - not necessarily romantic RP, friendships are just as interesting - and between upheaval in the Zephyr Crew and Dariahn making some very interesting friends in Brill there's a lot of potential for that right now. Both of the Wheelers have strong protective streaks, if different motivations and inner conflicts about it, and I can see a lot of interesting RP coming of them trying to help and take care of their friends. I really think most of what got me so meh about Meridith was when she got too professional and stopped really getting personally attached to anyone but Plagos and Orloc. Maybe she needs to get out and cultivate some friendships again too.

I've suddenly decided I really want a pet fennec fox. Nobody told me there were foxes that people kept as pets!