Category: Life

05_book_corrected Originally uploaded by lyzadanger Tomorrow (Saturday), I’m volunteering at the semi-annual Friends of the Multnomah County Library used book sale. The spring sale is in Gresham (hmmm) but if it’s anything like the fall sale (yay!) it’s going to be amazing. Last fall’s sale netted me $320 of books for $35. Or something like [...]

whirly feet Originally uploaded by lyzadanger Mine was, inexplicably, or ironically, one of my feet. I took it in San Diego where I was attending O’Reilly’s ETech conference in 2005. Flickr was quite the topic of conversation. This was back in the era where your account/profile had to be approved before you could actually post [...]

Today is my grandmother Pearl’s 94th birthday! When I called her to wish her well this evening she was watching a calculus DVD on her MacBook. Have I mentioned how proud I am of her? In general? We talk about FDR and history and Roman epics and argue about Clinton vs. Obama (she tends toward [...]

Playing with Rocks Originally uploaded by lyzadanger I sat thinking this evening about strange obsessions, autistic tendencies. And I realize i have one: if there is a pile of interesting rocks, especially along river or water banks, I have to sit down and spend time quietly examining them. Making piles. Sorting. Finding the truly special [...]

In which I lament about the things I’d like to be good at but am not, or those things that I do which I should not. I don’t write very well. For all my reading and my bitching about language, you’d think I’d have a Hemingway-esque wrassle hold on the English language. Not as such. [...]

Benjamin Franklin: reading his autobiography Poetic form. Reading the Norton Anthology on this, learning about villanelles, sestinas, etc. Trying to understand why I like Walt Whitman so much. Re-reading Leaves of Grass. Trying to grow a sense of rhythm from nothing. Latin. I’d like to be able to stumble through sections of The Aeneid later [...]

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My library unfurled in a way that is technically impossible. But I wanted an image that suggested what it was like to be in the room, which this does fairly well.

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I shudder to think, but there have been demands for photos of the new hair color. Here we go. In this one you can see what I’m talking about in my previous post. I’m puffed up from the prednisone (hint: look around my chin especially), and it kind of looks like I have a black [...]

Bah. The manyfold side effects of the prednisone I’m taking for the Crohn’s are coming home to roost. My face, subtly but surely, is starting to puff up like a melon. And my skin? Strange, fragile, soft and shiny. I’m self-conscious. To say nothing of the constant eating and its consequences. Bah! But this, too, [...]