Couch

Marcel coughs on a sofa while Anna hopes he is not getting sick.

This is what we, in the business of explaining comics, call foreshadowing. It's when you subtly hint at something that will become relevant later. For example, I might be getting sick. Will I? Who could possibly know? Stay tuned.

Marcel lounges on the sofa with Gigabyte asleep across him while he says he needs to get up and clean the apartment.

Could I force her to get up, and would she probably not mind all that much? Perhaps.

Is it more respectful to spend 45 minutes whispering to her that I really need to get up and do something, while secretly being very happy that this means I don’t have to get up and clean? Yes. Yes, it is.

Marcel and Anna lounge on a sofa and discuss a Ted Lasso episode.

Something about the current season of Ted Lasso feels off. I guess they’re trying to make the characters feel more nuanced, but I quite liked where everyone had ended up by the end of the last season. It almost feels like there wasn’t much reason to pull them out of retirement for yet another one, huh?

Marcel and Anna relax on a sofa and eat ice cream.

Growing up, being an adult always seemed like such a hassle. Turns out, the adults around me just didn’t have all their ducks in a row. And not even because of external circumstances, either. They’d simply built themselves lives that, quite frankly, seemed to suck.

Mine doesn’t.

I’m now at an age where it’s starting to feel a little cringe not to think of myself as an actual adult, and I’ve recently started embracing the fact that I actually am one. Just not the kind who built himself a life full of stress, drama, and responsibilities I never wanted to deal with.

Marcel goes running in the rain, then watches Germany play Curaçao from a sofa.

I love winning battles against that inner voice telling me not to do hard things. It feels great.

Marcel runs in the forest, then relaxes on the sofa with Anna as they use their devices.

Sometimes quality time together means doing things separately, but side by side.

After a doctor checks Marcel's numb hand, he monitors it on his laptop before he and Anna move a sofa.

My hand felt a bit numb this morning. The doctor said it might be because Millimeter hit a tendon. It got better over the course of the day.