eminently practical

My dear boy, this is the sort of day history tells us is better spent in bed.

~Uncle Willie, The Philadelphia Story

After a long afternoon swimming in nausea (I have concluded, and mater corroborates, that it's a nasty viral thingummy), I decided the best remedy would be to sit down with pater over beef stroganoff and, for the first time, watch Sweeney Todd.

It was a brilliant plan.