× It’s been ten months since I left my private little bunker in Elsewhere — but today, I’m in my sister’s beautiful home in Connecticut. Listening to the birds, watching the marauding squirrels’ antics at the bird feeders, enjoying the mild sunshine. My daily struggle is to avoid gorging continuously. Chocolate, chocolate everywhere! And every meal, a seduction of flavours and abundance. For the last couple of days, we have been watching a series called Resident Alien. It focuses on a bug-eyed, multi-limbed and highly intelligent creature who is forced to assume human form in a small town in Colorado. The human form he assumes is played by Alan Tudyk, an actor who can make his face look like animated plasticine even when he’s not an alien in disguise. But why was the alien visiting our planet in the first place? Answer: In order to wipe human beings out of existence.