Saturday, May 08, 2004

Visited shad elevator!! No time to write about it now; will tomorrow night. (Gs tomorrow.) Took photos. Saw LOTS of shad and got a faux snake friend! His name is Shadley. Shad are silvery and shiny and strong. Green water; reminded me of Isla. Wide wide wide falls. Churning white water; misty spray rising. We could see the shad jumping around down below, too. Down in the rapids. No lampreys. Blinder & blinder.

Posted at 9:54:21 PM by Laura W. Petix.

Shad shad shad. Making a million shad phone calls. "Hi, do you serve shad or shad roe?" "Excuse me? Salmon?" "No, shad." No one has shad.

Posted at 2:09:16 PM by Laura W. Petix.

Thursday, May 06, 2004

My Easter eggs didn't turn out that great this year, except for this one. It's the only one I still had left in the refrigerator; I saved it because I liked it so much. (The photo wasn't inspired by eating it; it was inspired by sacrificing it to the Sinkmonster.) It was even cooler up close, with natural-looking speckles and subtle shadings like the real egg of some strange kind of bird. In indoor light the colour was so deep that it looked almost black.

Thursday today. Very Thursday. Walked to the post office and went on the swing in the park. Made a Kope and didn't drive anywhere. Every time I hear "No more mudcaked creatures lying in your arms" I picture Alice holding that pig. For some reason, I just remembered that the first time I ever went to the Haj restaurant was right after I watched the final episode of Blake's Seven. I was in a daze. 1990. Why did I think of that? Is the weather today the same as that day? Why did we go in the spring? I thought it was for Dean's birthday. Makes no sense. Also, was thinking about the fact that when I went to Greenwich Village with Amy and Allison (1998?), Amy got a tuna melt (I got a tongue sandwich). Why do I remember insignificant details like that when I can't remember anything else?

Posted at 4:37:39 PM by Laura W. Petix.

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Fifth day of May, and I listened to "Isis" in the drizzling rain. Twice. And once not in the drizzling rain.

Posted at 9:24:30 PM by Laura W. Petix.

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Japanese eggplant from A Dong, cooked on the grill. Not burned to a crisp, but equally insanely delicious. The ferns were great, too. Very tired now. We trimmed Leopold and Eh, root pruned Spag and Eh, and repotted Oliver. Ollie looks really good in his new black pot (former pot of Isis; Smead is going to be very confused when I bring Ollie upstairs).

Posted at 9:17:26 PM by Laura W. Petix.

I am fixated on that Rick image from my dream, now. The second one, from 1976. I can still picture it vividly (very strange, for a dream image) and I feel positive that it's a real photo I have seen, but I looked in my whole collection of Band images and it's not there. Listened to Rick, Rick, Rick and Richard, Richard, Richard in the car today. LIAD. And "Hazel" and "One Too Many Mornings." Fiddleheads, at Oats!! Bought a big pile for a grillson tonight since it's not raining. I think the important thing in my dream was the couches, since couches appeared in both sections. The only thing I can think of is that I liked the scene in Suh last night where Paulie and Silvio were sitting together on a love seat. Just, the aesthetics of it. The Oats people posted my local bee pollen suggestion (that I filled out in March) on the bulletin board! They wrote, "We recognize the importance of having local bee pollen for allergies and are checking with our home office to get an approved vendor..." and some other stuff about how they do have pollen but it's not local, but I didn't write down that part. So many leaves everywhere now. We're going to root prune some of our trees, immediately.

Posted at 4:38:34 PM by Laura W. Petix.

Just had this weird dream (really liked it), where I was watching the bonuses on one of the Sopranos discs and they had a feature about how one of the guest characters (I have no idea who or why) was based on Rick Danko. So weird; the only connection, sort of, is Scorsese. But on the disc, it showed this fantastic photo of the Band guys (Big Pink era; very Landy-esque) sitting together on a couch and they were all wearing the best pants. They were summer pants; Richard's were white linen, with cuffs; Rick's, I think, were pale blue cotton. The camera panned across this photo over the pants and down to their ankles and feet, which were all arranged differently (Richard's were crossed) fitted together on this couch. They had bare ankles because they were wearing shoes without socks. Rick looked unbelievable. I'm not talking about anything prurient; it was just incredibly aesthetically pleasing. They also had a separate picture of just Rick (maybe this was the one with the light blue pants; not sure), which was from 1976 or so (publicity photo for his solo album, I think). That one seemed incredibly familiar but I don't know if it was real or not. I was watching the DVD with Diane, for some reason; she was sitting on a small couch next to Tim (or Sterlin? I honestly can't remember) and I was standing up at first, but it was so great and we kept watching so they let me squeeze in next to them (next to Diane). We were watching an actual episode during that part, not the Rick feature. It was a first-season episode, but not a real one. I'd already seen it, but I commented about how I appreciated and understood it so much more now since I was familiar with the characters. I have no idea what triggered this... I haven't even thought about Rick recently and I wasn't watching commentary last night.

Had a Bob dream the night before Jan's wedding, about going to a store (sort of like Target) and finding a whole section of Bob cards, postcards, stickers, etc. It was great. Some of the stickers were like paper doll stickers where there were different outfits and you could stick them on the Bob figure. All the Bob stationery was really neat, unusual stuff... bright colours, cool graphics. They weren't real pre-existing postcards that I have; they were all newly designed things with tons of variety. I was so excited. I could see the actual details in the dream, but I couldn’t remember them when I woke up.

Posted at 11:57:12 AM by Laura W. Petix.

Monday, May 03, 2004

Almost forgot! At A Dong today, I noticed that the special cooler where they keep the durians locked up has a big poster of mangosteens on the front! It looks exactly like the mangosteen picture on the front of the SIOIWTEBBA CD. I opened the cooler to see if there were any mangosteens inside, but there weren't. What does it mean?? Does the cooler ever actually contain mangosteens, even though mangosteens are illegal? Or why is the poster there? Is it a secret message that one should ask for black market mangosteens in the back??

Afterwards, I looked at all the weird canned fruits on the shelves to see if any of them were mangosteens (even though canned mangosteen would not really count) but none of them were. Way too many of them were rambutans.

Posted at 9:26:18 PM by Laura W. Petix.

Why do you always find random volumes of encyclopedias and similar multi-volume-set type books, but never the whole set? It's so mysterious. Why would someone donate just one or two volumes of something to a library or thrift store? What happened to the rest?

Posted at 9:01:08 PM by Laura W. Petix.

I got five super-cool old books at the Salvation Army Thrift Store near A Dong! I only had three dollars in my wallet, so the lady gave them to me for $2.60-something. Got The Golden Book Encyclopedia vol. 1 (1959), The Golden Book Encyclopedia vol. 9 (1959), The Golden Treasury of Knowledge vol. 3 (1961), The How and Why Wonder Book of Sea Shells (1961; I used to have this one when I was a kid), and best of all (so great that I slammed it shut the second I started looking at it, because I wanted to save it for later) The Mother Goose Book illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen (1976). Lots of golden books. All the golden ones are in semi-bad shape (some pen scribblings, warped pages), which is extra-great. What a find!!! They all have incredible incredible 60's-ish illustrations. I am obsessed with 60's-style illustrations. Can't believe I am so lucky.

Posted at 3:42:33 PM by Laura W. Petix.