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This scene is a fun little bit of Lanyon lore! Trying to hide your intelligence/passion is something I can't relate to directly (I'm more the type to wear it on my sleeve--a mix of "please let me talk about the thing I'm obsessed with" and "please think I'm smart I need the validation") but I've always loved characters who present themselves as devil-may-care types but harbor secret nerdy depths if you level up your friendship enough. In real life, I tend to get scared away from those kinds of people before I can reach that level with them, which is probably why I seek them out in fiction! (I think what I really need to level up is my friendship-building skills . . .)

Last week I got a nasty head cold! (This has been happening a lot recently around this time . . .) The sickness itself wasn't that severe, but it made me super fatigued and essentially confined me to my childhood bedroom (or wandering around the house when no one else was around) for the second half of the holiday break. On the one hand, I almost certainly needed that bout of intense Rest and Relaxation after Crunchtime 2024, but without the energy to engage with anything more than the most passive media, I found myself getting intensely bored and stir-crazy, and it was frustrating not to have the energy to go out or have much quality time with family.

I'm trying to be gentle with myself as I recover--this morning, I had such a leisurely time at the gym that I found myself thinking, "I feel like I'm having a spa day." (I still probably pushed myself too hard--I also found myself thinking, "Ah, I feel like falling asleep" halfway through my dead lift sets, which is not a good thing to do in the middle of dead lifting!!) Hoping that the coming week will be a gentle one!