Monthly Archive: October 2005

20
Oct
2005

ONE DAY YOU MAY LOOK BACK AND REALIZE THEY WERE THE BIG THINGS

There are so many things I don’t write about. Sometimes it makes me wonder who I’m kidding with this journal. I don’t write about work, really. I don’t write much about my husband and how we interact, at least not any intimate details. I try not to write things that would hurt someone if they read them. I never write about television or the shows I watch…mostly because I don’t. Watch, that is. It’s rare that I talk in detail about a bad day or what caused it, especially if there are other people involved. I don’t write about my...

18
Oct
2005

YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY TOMAY-DOH!

I was starving by the time lunch rolled around today, and I ran downstairs to the canteen to pick up the food I had ordered from our take-in restaurant. It comes in a styrofoam hotbox, full of little aluminium carryout containers for the people who ordered ahead. Today’s lunch was a beef patty with melted cheese and little fried potatoes with spinach. There is always a bowl of mixed salad as well, so I put everything on a plate and stopped to pick up utensils and napkins. Often, the kitchen personnel set out plates of leftover tomatoes and cucumbers from...

17
Oct
2005

MOO

Lordy, 4 days is a lot to try and catch up on. I’ve been trying mightily, and am nearly back to Friday, but then I suddenly realize you’re all writing MORE RIGHT NOW! aagh! *pants* So, even though I’m reading, I can’t possibly ALSO comment on everything because I’d be here until the cows come home. The cows usually come home when it gets dark out, but in my case, they’d be standing in the field all night, getting dewy all over their black and white backs, looing softly and sadly, and looking with big brown eyes at the lights...

16
Oct
2005

TRA LA LA!

I felt like I was glowing yesterday. It was probably just the stage lighting, and the rarified air I was breathing, though, performing with 3000 other choir members, a full symphony orchestra and several very famous Swedish singing stars. The choir filled one entire end of the Globen stadium as well as the back half of the stage, and we were a pretty impressive sight, all massed in black with turquoise scarves and the tenor & bass sections in tuxedos. 13 pretty-much-straight hours of singing, and instead of being hoarse at the end I was simultaneously flying with the power...

13
Oct
2005

BRAINDUMP

NO ONE tried to guess the puzzle clues??! I’m shocked and disappointed. Okay, they WERE really hard, but STILL! Not THAT hard! I’ve edited the last post to include the answers for you. Use them at your own parties to amaze and confound your friends and family! *** I’m leaving, on a jet plane at six o’clock in the yawning to get to the place where I’m rendevous-ing with the bus. That is WAY too damn early. I have to make some sandwiches and pack a cooler and my weekend bag as well. After we arrive in Stockholm we will...

10
Oct
2005

TWO BY FIVE

Wait! There’s more! Just to entertain you while I’m off carousing…see what phrases you can come up with in answer to these! 1. Emergency situation that an Egyptian goddess experiences? 14 letters 2. Fruit that Grandma dubbed? 15 letters 3. Ornate clone of designer Chanel? 14 letters Big hint in the Subject Line Title.

10
Oct
2005

GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART, WELL IT’S TIME TO GO

I’m trying to be confident that it’s more true that absence makes the heart grow fonder and less true that out of sight is out of mind. I hope. Reasons for the upcoming scarcity of posts from Lizardek: Need some major recovery time after the virtual wedding shower that bluepoppy threw for sundayschoolrebel yesterday. I’m still picking rice out of my hair and shading my eyes against the bright lights. Giving everyone some much-needed time to work on their pages for my friends’ book *hint hint* Tuesday: AWC Handover meeting…it’s finally here. I’m giving up my night job. Wednesday: last...

08
Oct
2005

ONE OF THOSE DAYS

Today was one of those perfect days, a day when things got done, a day where no one yelled at anyone else, or made anyone mad, a day before something nice happens, a day with a perfect flow. Today was a day when I had time to relax and finish things and most of all, to gulp down a book in its entirety, to move into its world and breathe its air, and climb completely inside the skin and minds of fully-formed characters who did real and unpredictable things, and a story that brought everything to a conclusion so satisfying...

07
Oct
2005

AMONG THE TREES

One of the things in my grandparent’s house that held a special place in my heart was the three huge paintings of pine trees that hung on the rugged brick wall over the fireplace. The paintings were full of green and shady spaces and a looming majesty that made them seem somehow windows instead of paintings. They were California pines, hanging in a suburban Chicago home, but not a bit out of place for all that. Throughout the house, there were many other paintings and etchings by the same artist, and so the whole house had this woodsy, organic feel...

06
Oct
2005

YOU MAY ALREADY BE A WINNER!

If they sold paint in the color the sky was this evening, I would storm the home stores and buy every can available. When I got home, the hatch of the Volvo bungee-corded down over the bulging shiny cans, I would break out the flat-handled wide brushes and cover every surface until my entire world reflected the pale blended swath of periwinkle-melon-lavender-rose-apricot-palebanana-eggshell-cornflower that lined the sky tonight. Not one cloud. The swath was a band around the world, a ribboned horizon-belt beneath a bowl of blue, highlighted with coral and gold by the sinking sun. I paid too much for...

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