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 I have returned to work! Happily, I'm fine as long as I have cough drops and a cup of tea handy. 

Highly Recommended Entertainment for Sickies:
(When I'm sick, I can't really read. It requires more focus than my brain has. So, here, have some tv recs!)

• The Good Place: Season Four: OH, my god. This is just deeply touching and KIND and so human. I had followed this little team of idiots thru three years of forking bullshirt and it paid off so well. This series has cemented itself as a firm reminder of the value of letting a thing end well. 

• Supernatural rewatching - I had been on a speed run to catch up to the current season (15!) of Supernatural before the series ends, so I had gotten into the habit of sitting down and watching an episode per day for the last... eh, month or two? Now I am actually caught up, I started to re-watch a bit, starting with the season that I started with - season four! I have to say this, the last three seasons of SPN finally feel like they are being written by a team of people who have some interest in exploring the vast chasms of canons, and I adore that. The loose threads are being tied up! The plot holes are being patched! Season 14 and 15 have been in the firm Greatest Hits territory for the show. If that's your jam, it's a good time to catch up or rewatch and see if you still like it. 

• The Untamed, which is slower going for me due to the fact that I don't speak Mandarin. Subtitles take a piece of media out of the 'watchable while super sick' category, usually, but this is still pretty fun and easy to follow when I was a little bit more together. It's delightfully goofy, tho, and if you are feeling lost with the first few episodes, just get to the end of episode two - a lot of show takes place in a prolonged flashback that starts in that episode. Once I made it there, I felt like I started to get a much better sense of the characters and the real dynamic of the show. Commentary on the social elements of the show has also been helpful - Chinese tropes are gonna be different than American ones, and That's Okay.