Lexical Gap No. 36: 답정너

January 2023 summary

🗣️ You can listen to the audio version of this newsletter above

I don’t know why half of this photo didn’t develop. It looks like Castor is materializing out of a cloud. Ah, such are the joys of film. Happy accidents, as Bob Ross would have said.

Well 2023 certainly started off with a bang.¹

And by bang, I mean I got COVID.

I had managed to go three years without catching Miss Rona, but alas, she got me in the end. Thankfully I am double-vaxxed and double-boosted, so my bout was fairly mild, but I’m bad at being sick in general. I don’t know what to do with myself when I’m sick (not to mention the dogs don’t understand why their stay-at-home human won’t take them to the dog park or on long walks), and that restlessness was made worse by my social media...hiatus? Restrictions? Diet? Whatever you want to call it, my normal time-wa…