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Oct
2005
Yearly Archive: 2005
22
Oct
2005
NOTHIG BUCH TO SAY
I was thinking of trying to compile a “Best of Lizardek” list but I’m unsure where to start. Do you have a favorite post of mine that you could recommend to the list? Just to get me started? Since I’ve been writing in this journal for about 2 years, I ought to have SOME stuff worthy of mention. October has grabbed Autumn by the throat and shaken her back and forth, leaving her limp and leafless. For weeks we enjoyed apple-crisp days of unmarred blue skies, sunshine and stillness. The leaves turned slowly, illuminating every grove, and as slowly fell,...
21
Oct
2005
EVEN IF YOU DO LEARN TO SPEAK CORRECT ENGLISH, WHOM ARE YOU GOING TO SPEAK IT TO?*
You know I must feel like hell if I actually cancel a sushi date. 🙁 Sorry, galestorm, if my throat had been any less sandpapery and my headache any less poundy I would have been there snarfing down salmon nigiri and infecting you with the heebie-jeebies for all I was worth. Bleah. *** Mom and Judy took the amazing sunshiney autumn wonderweather with them when they left. Damn it. *** I have a problem that I have brought upon myself, sort of, and I don’t really know what to do about it. See, we use the OPOL method at home...
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...