The air of a holiday.

It's probably the swelling happiness of the cats and my uncle looking forward to my aunt coming home today -- or perhaps it's because tomorrow is Losar, the Tibetan New Year -- but today has the air of a holiday.

It's a Tuesday, and I work tonight. But happiness is in the air and I accept, though it's incomprehensible to me.

I've had a decent rest for the first time in several days. Am recovering nicely from another spate of insomniac ways. Good to sleep six or seven hours and not three or four. Better to be up at eight am. Good morning, morning.

The birds are fed, I have apples for the deer, and I had the opportunity to provide potatoes in a nice soup brought down to DC for the Occupy DC folks. Good people. They share with the homeless. They've bravely withstood the winter and crackdowns, and despite a Superbowl weekend raid from police wearing riot gear (plus rather absurd Hazmat suits) -- Occupy DC stands firm. ::salutes them::

Our temple is supplying food five days a week (Ani Palmo's the main cook), but another church is doing it this Friday.

I'd still like to buy them bivvy pads, though maybe they don't need them now. Since they can't camp in the park a church has offered them space to sleep. The Occupy kids are taking shifts through the night; part of the group maintains their vigil, while another group sleeps, and so on.

The kitty boys are stalking each other (Rothy being the main culprit while Junior aims to slink by). They both need to see an after school special on bullying, sigh.

SGA fic rec: Starting Over (In the Same Place) by Pogrebin

Fic rec:

Starting Over (In the Same Place) by Pogrebin, PG-13, Gen

Everyone has probably read this but me. It takes place after the finale, once Atlantis is on earth and everyone tries to figure out what to do with it (aside from revealing the Stargate program and turning it into a tourist trap). Atlantis is stripped down to a skeleton crew, John is given a gate team out of Cheyenne mountain, Rodney's moved to R&D, and the Atlantis gate is posing problems for the SGC.

One gets the impression that the military and science community of the Stargate program were rubbing their hands together, eager to get their hands on Atlantis ... and they're caught up short to recall that Atlantis comes with people. And that these people are difficult to reassign. Not only do they not want to stay on earth, they're people who'd been thrown away (Russia, Antarctica...) for good reason. Plus, they'd shown their worth. I like it that the military here wants to use its people where they'll best serve.

Still, everyone's on the fence about what to do, and Rodney's desperate to tip the debate in their favor.

It's thoughtful assessment of SGA filled with tense undercurrents, and I find I believe this resolution fully. I especially appreciate General Landry's musings on the SGA team, and his insight into Sheppard. I find like the cantankerous old grouch more here than on the show.