Monthly Archives: July 2006

Patience

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Liz

Patience is wider than one once envisioned, with ribbons of riversand distant ranges andtasks undertaken and finished with modest relish bynatives in their native dress. Who would have guessedit possible that waiting is sustainable-a place withits own harvests. Or that … Continue reading →

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Waterfire

Posted on July 30, 2006 by Liz

This week, a friend from work organized an evening extravaganza for his boyfriend’s birthday. There’s a really neat event in Providence, RI called Waterfire. The basic premise is that all along the river have been placed floating baskets of firewood. … Continue reading →

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I am pleased to meet you…

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Liz

Ladies and gentlemen, that lovely thing swooshing past us would be my comfort zone rapidly disappearing over the horizon. This summer I decided to make a bigger commitment to actually learning to speak Japanese. I’ve been stabbing at it on … Continue reading →

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A Piece of Beryl

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Liz

The spinoffs from tropical storm Beryl ripped through New England this afternoon with very little warning (well, to me at least. I have still not learned that just because it’s sunny in the morning doesn’t mean I should leave the … Continue reading →

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Busy, busy

Posted on July 13, 2006 by Liz

Now that school is over, and things have started to fall into more or less of a routine, I had somewhat expected to be less busy. Not so! What does a girl who doesn’t have homework do with herself after … Continue reading →

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Suspicious Links

Posted on July 12, 2006 by Liz

You might have noticed a suspiciously non-roman link in the sidebar on my blog. Never fear, my blog hasn’t been infiltrated by trojan links or anything even so remotely exciting. While messing around with some “behind the curtain” settings, I … Continue reading →

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Because it made me laugh…

Posted on July 11, 2006 by Liz

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Liz! The average human spends about 30 days during their life in liz! It’s bad luck to put liz on a bed. During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Cities

Posted on July 8, 2006 by Liz

For the past four years, I have effectively lived in two cities at once. Neither one of them is, in itself, a really big city, but they both lie close enough to large metro areas that I consider myself to … Continue reading →

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