halatnost

[freckles_and_doubt]

Owing to infection by the above word, 'tis a day for random linkery.

• Cultural Snow is the source of said happy-making word:
  
  

  ...Ivan Goncharov's idle anti-hero Oblomov ... gave the Russian language the glorious abstract noun "halatnost", literally "dressing-gown-ness", a state of intertia, apathy, daydreaming and general blaaah.

  There is an urgent need for this word in quite alarmingly far-ranging elements of my life. Also, in a not entirely unrelated memo to self, I was noting only this morning that I need a new dressing-gown.
  
  
• The other night I dreamed, during the course of an interesting dream-narrative entailing staying at a holiday house on a lake with wolverine_nun and her family (possibly with extra kids in there), that I was losing my sight. I nearly fell into the lake crossing the long walkway to get to the house, owing to everything being blurry. This new development in bionic sight is thus interesting and apposite.
  
  
• Scary-Go-Round is currently pursuing a particularly demented storyline involving the Easter Bell and the Yak-Wendigo War, in France. I draw your attention to the most recent strip because I rather like the yak-pwned Wendigo in a wheelchair in the bottom left-hand frame.
  
  
• I should probably add, for the record, that to the best of my knowledge the word "halatnost" doesn't actually appear in a David Bowie lyric.

Last Night I Dreamed: a giant redwood tree was falling on me as I lay in bed. I woke up cowering and whimpering.