No sleep 'til

[cyrano]

I was talking with Rachel, who I'm glad is awake for some of this, and I said something vaguely clever. There's this animal planet show, and it's your standard over-anthropomorphized poorly written 'how can we make watching a bunch of animals go Zing?' sort of script, but it's based on a bunch of scientists doing research so the underneath is pretty solid. Anyway. One of the meercats in this meercat troupe they're studying got the boot but she doesn't particularly want to roam the veldt on her own because it sucks. And I noted that travelling on your own is like being an exiled meercat because there's nobody to watch your shit if you want to get a drink or take a nap, and there's nobody to wake you up or keep an eye on you. So you spend the entire time perched on your haunches and sitting as tall as you can, in that cute meercat pose, until you get where you're going and can stop travelling.