{"id":846,"date":"2005-05-09T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/09\/doing-the-math\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:49:52","slug":"doing-the-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/09\/doing-the-math\/","title":{"rendered":"DOING THE MATH"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m tired so often, especially in the spring and summer. It’s not just work. It’s not just the full calendar. In fact, I think I’ve figured out what the problem is…this is a typical weeknight and each one of these things wakes me up a little bit more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2:00 a.m.<\/b><\/td>\nAnders finally comes to bed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 a.m.<\/b><\/td>\nKarin comes shuffling in, curls up on the floor\/bench\/end of the bed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 a.m.<\/b><\/td>\nSun brightens up, birds start their early morning calisthenics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:15 a.m.<\/b><\/td>\nHave to pee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6:00 a.m.<\/b><\/td>\nAnders’ alarm goes off<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6:45 a.m.<\/b><\/td>\nMY alarm goes off but I haven’t been really<\/i> asleep since 2 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

sigh<\/i><\/p>\n

My French colleague is in Lund this week, and we had a laugh this afternoon when she came in and said “Bonjour!” to me. For a moment, I thought she was speaking Swedish (which she doesn’t know), and I heard “Bond djur” and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out what pigs and cows had to do with anything.*<\/p>\n

Cracking Me Up<\/b>: Fortune Teller<\/a><\/p>\n

Of all the wonderful tributes to mothers yesterday, this one really touched me:<\/b> Mother Love<\/a><\/p>\n

*Bonjour<\/i> in French, for those who might not know, is Good Day<\/i>, and bond djur<\/i> in Swedish is, literally, farm animal(s)<\/i>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m tired so often, especially in the spring and summer. It’s not just work. It’s not just the full calendar. In fact, I think I’ve figured out what the problem is…this is a typical weeknight and each one of these things wakes me up a little bit more. 2:00 a.m. Anders finally comes to bed 3:30 a.m. Karin comes shuffling in, curls up on the floor\/bench\/end of the bed 4:00 a.m. Sun brightens up, birds start their early morning calisthenics 5:15 a.m. Have to pee 6:00 a.m. Anders’ alarm goes off 6:45 a.m. MY alarm goes off but I haven’t...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beinglizardek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}