Lizardek

16
Jun
2005

ONE FOR MY INNER CHILD

I think that it must be some sort of parental overcompensation to want to buy your children all the things you never had when YOU were a kid. Especially the toys. I mean, I ALSO want to share with them all the things I had and loved, like certain books,* and Spirograph, and Etch-a-Sketch. But when I stop and think about it, who did I really buy that Slip-n-Slide for last week? We’ve been kicking around the idea of getting one of those gigantic bone-breakers trampolines for the kids for the last year or so, and I think if we...

15
Jun
2005

IN WHICH LIZ POINTS AT THE SKY AND LOOKS AMAZED

Last spring and summer I walked every day. I had big plans for this year. Big, I tell you! Then I de-railed completely with a severely sprained ankle in February and I have not walked except once. It’s only now that my foot is starting to feel closer to normal than it has for a long time. I know, I’m lame. (haaaaaaaaa) I need a kick in the seat of the pants, a motivating word, a kick start. KICK! START! My son is in the middle of a project that has me totally floored. I can’t wait until he’s done...

14
Jun
2005

ANTICIPATORY

I don’t have anything pressing to write about tonight, but I can’t stop the compulsion, regardless. Luckily for me, and sadly for you, I don’t feel the pressure to be scintillating and interesting every damn day. 😛 Haaa! I keep finding good writers. I keep adding blogs and journals to my list. I need an INTERVENTION. Mack the Knife is playing on my playlist right now, and I want to get up and dance, but there is no one here to dance with. What a bummer that my Uncle Mike and Uncle Sam live so far away, and that my...

13
Jun
2005

ALL THE THINGS I COULD DO

Poor Carl Linneaus. Only one of the greater scientific minds of the 18th century. You slog and slog through ACRES of vegetative organization, discovering new species, naming them, figuring out a complete naming system, fer chrissakes, make such a reputation for yourself that your name goes up in lights across scientific history marquees everywhere as the Father of Taxonomy,…and then you’re doomed to be referred to by 7-year-olds in 21st century Sweden as “gubben pÃ¥ hundralappen.”* I will really miss Swedish money when the colorful but soulless Euro comes to town. I already mourned the demise of Holland’s pretty currency,...

12
Jun
2005

LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION

I was feeling particularly blank today. I am not sure why, but it probably has something to do with the moon or the rain or the numbers at the wrong end of the temperature scale. Perhaps I’m just tired, which isn’t wholly out of the realm of probability with me on any given day. I don’t like feeling blank, and I don’t WANT to feel blank. I sat here and stared at the screen for several minutes and nothing, but nothing, came to me. I thought earlier about some things to write about, but inspiration has flown off elsewhere and...

11
Jun
2005

MINUTIAE

Lazy Saturday. Slept in. Ran a couple of errands. Rented some kid movies. Didn’t talk to my brother on the phone. Had a yummy dinner consisting of delicious grilled pork, potato salad and artichokes as big as Karin’s head. Watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind after myskväll. (NOT Band of Brothers, JOHN. Pbbbb!!). Our comments after: Anders: My head hurts. Liz: Yeah. That was a hurty-head movie. Came to the realization that I have had nothing planned, no activities, for over 7 days. Cannot decide if I like it as much as I think I do. Really Great Writing...

09
Jun
2005

SAINTS AND POETS

I’m an addict in search of my next hit. The substance I’m addicted to isn’t hard to find, but it can be elusive and you have to keep an eye out for it. I suffer when I can’t get me some, and I have been known to spend money and time searching for it. Luckily, there are so many forms of the thing I crave that I don’t usually have to go too long inbetween highs. It never gets old, that blast of euphoria that sets me spinning, that raises the hair on the back of my neck, that dilates...

08
Jun
2005

SUMMER SUN SOMETHING’S BEGUN BUT UH-OH THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS

Summer was so long when I was a kid. I’m pretty sure they’ve shortened it. And they’ve definitely made it colder. THEY’VE got a lot to answer for. Althooouuugh, they may have shortened the LENGTH of it, but the days! Wow, are THEY long! And this! Sunshine makes me so happy, especially after a couple of weeks of unseasonably cold and grey weather. This was the sky a few minutes ago, at 8:30 p.m. in the evening. Then I walked around and took some more photos of things green and growing and things lilac and lovely.

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