What have you been pondering about as of late?

I tried that and found myself pondering the cylinder whose height is its diameter. Half way, you might say, between orb and cube, but is neither. The orb would fit inside it and it would fit inside a cube of similar height three different ways.

Sometimes it feels like we're running in rhombicosidodecahedrons

You're probably only afflicted by this madness because it is your cake day. Congratulations!