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Liz

I am here for Friends

About Me


Forgetfulness
The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
never even heard of,
as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye
and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,
something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.
Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,
it is not poised on the tip of your tongue,
not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.
It has floated away down a dark mythological river
whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall,
well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those
who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.
No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.
by Billy Collins MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

being outside, walking around, taking pictures, growing plants, cooking, eating, going to concerts, the landscape, modern art, free fun with friends

I'd like to meet:

people who like opera

Music:

The Strokes, Low, Pedro the Lion, Silver Jews, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Tim Easton, Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens, Cat Power, Beulah, Damien Jurado, Minus the Bear, Centromatic, Louis Armstrong, Animal Collective, The Microphones, The Smashing Pumpkins

Movies:

Raging Bull, The Night of the Hunter, Ikiru, An American In Paris, Nights of Cabiria, Taxi Driver, Zatoichi, The Lost Weekend, All About Eve, M, Chicago, The Elephant Man, Préparez vos mouchoirs, Obchod na korze, The Long Way Home

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Antiques Roadshow, Planet Earth

Books:

The Good Earth (Buck), One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love In The Time Of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Blindness (Jose Saramago), Disgrace (JM Coetzee), Mr. Sammler's Planet (Saul Bellow), The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass), The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway), Hunger (Knut Hamsun)Plus poetry by: William Carlos Williams, Mark Strand, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Derek Walcott, Wislawa Szymborska

Heroes:

Joseph Merrick

My Blog

concerts

the worst thing about moving to houston has been not being able to go just a few blocks to see an awesome concert.  okay, it happened a few times, but that's not enough!  i'm sorry if this s...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:19:00 PST

hello

hi you guys.  it's hard for me to post in this blog because it seems sort of silly to me, but even though i feel that way i'm still compelled to post here.  right now i'm stuck at my office at 2:25 on...
Posted by Liz on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:39:00 PST

You have to give these things a subject

Things are fine.  Maybe they're even pretty good. I had nice holidays.  It was great to go home and see my friends and family.  I got a fish tank from Thom for Christmas.  We hav...
Posted by Liz on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:31:00 PST

Regret

Sometimes I feel so much regret over all the opportunities that I've let slip past me.  That goes for everything from little things to big things.  I regret not studying harder in college, I...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:58:00 PST

I miss Chicago so much

I miss Chicago so much.  It's been ten months since I lived there, and I miss it more than ever.  If I could be there right now, I wonder if I would feel at home again or if I would feel jus...
Posted by Liz on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:05:00 PST

need to write something new

I feel like I need to write a new blog because it's been a while.  I've kept a paper journal ever since I was forced to start one in ninth grade English class.  Sometimes I've written in it ...
Posted by Liz on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:00:00 PST

new job and office supplies

i am happy to announce that i am the owner of some new office supplies.  woooo!  it makes the fact that i have a new job so much more exciting.  i got one of these awesome wrist rests t...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:45:00 PST

Keep on keeping on

Check out this link:My CancerAt work I've been listening to NPR while I do my tasks.  Today I also came across the cool blog that I linked above.  It is about a man's life with cancer, and ...
Posted by Liz on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:05:00 PST

pictures from my weekend

i had a pretty good weekend. friday and saturday nights, i went to hermann park to see the symphony play free shows in the park, because i had been last weekend and it was awesome. here's what i saw...
Posted by Liz on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:57:00 PST

gardening

i really love gardening and plants and eating plants and thinking about plants. i found some cool new websites today: http://www.yougrowgirl.com/ http://www.idigmygarden.com/ oh man, i wish i had a ho...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:40:00 PST