Comments | liz_in_london: Hanging with Markus Aurelius and Lucius Maximus

liz_in_london

Hanging with Markus Aurelius and Lucius Maximus

Aug 13, 2004 12:03

The Davenport Dudes are great. Although Luke and I had a bit of trouble with the biking situation which I really can't explain in a post and shouldn't. But Luke was really gracious as always and let me ride his lovely bike with excellent brakes and took the loud, difficult, brakeless bike and the bike lock and the backpack. So I had it very easy ( Read more... )

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Back from camping anonymous August 13 2004, 07:51:20 UTC

Hi Liz,
Back early from camping because of reports of prolonged rain/icky weather (which we had already tasted Wed. night/Thurs. early AM. However, the weather hasn't been that bad since we've returned. Oh well...Silks, Stankos, and Cooleys left early too. Our LL Bean screen tent is great for keeping out sun and bugs but not good for all-out rain.
So, are we picking you up on Tues at 5? Let us know.
Glad that you're being active there -- biking, running...Say hello to the Lyndons, and the Davenports. Must get off and allow people to call us -- have been doing one thing or another online all morning. Catching up.
Missing you. Excited to have you coming back to us!
love, Mom

Matthew Finally Joins the Human Race . . . Online anonymous August 13 2004, 22:29:02 UTC

Liz, let me be forward with you. I dislike online journals for many reasons, but namely because of their proximity to voyeurism. They scare me. Like away messages. I don't need to know that person is in the shower or bloating/cramping or chatting with their girlfriend or struggling with bulimia. Also, I crave the immediacy of lived experience and I can't help but feel that online journals often cater to self-serving individuals who would live vicariously through other people (and who wants to admit they belong to that category?). Furthermore, this impersonal medium can often be used for "publishing" the "findings" of unqualified naval gazers. Of course, as you may have suspected by now, my analysis of this public journaling fad says more about my personality and the type of material I would contribute to such a project than it does about online journals, especially yours ( ... )

Re: Matthew Finally Joins the Human Race . . . Online liz_in_london August 14 2004, 06:09:15 UTC

Oh, thank you for that so much, Matt! It was very kind of you to say. I'm gonna start crying now. This morning Pete told me that he's been pondering what I should do with life and that I need to be a writer. Haha. And then he said that when I speak to him and tell him stuff, I speak like I'm half Adrian Plass and half Bill Bryson. Haha! It was so funny of him to say that!!!

Your Brother Continues . . . anonymous August 13 2004, 22:33:01 UTC

Liz, I have loved reading your journal entries and all the comments from Heather, Kevin, Daniel, Meredith, unknown, Jess, Allison, Luke, Byndon (sp?, Mom, Dad, Maresy and Debs. You have good friends and you are a wonderful writer; it has been fun educational to track your conversations and travels via this journal. As you know, I haven't had consistent access to the internet but I want you to know that with my computer finally fixed this week I was able to read all your postings. I hope Meredith told you that we had a fun time at family camp (don't believe the parts about me being rude, obnoxious, etc. she brings it upon herself). It was also great to see C. Bressoud, the Hills, Hodges and Parker there--we missed you that weekend. Alright, I'm off to bed, Liz--the Lighthouse has another workday tomorrow. Yes, yet another Saturday of work!!! Some of us from the LH may go see the Prescott Park play in the evening this Sat. because it was rained out tonight. In fact, Jan and I, not knowing it had been rained out, ended up playing ( ... )

Re: Your Brother Continues . . . anonymous August 14 2004, 10:56:42 UTC

This marital break-up is news to me. You think I'd "tuck up" (note the MS accent)with some juvenile dancer down at Ballet Magnificat? Or, Lopez, the 300 lb. propietor of La Quinta Inn? Or the elderly gentlemen on the Mississippi Queen, the youngest of whom were octogenarians? Come now.
My love affair in MS was with a road -- the Natchez Trace -- most beautiful length of "highway" I've ever driven. And that's about it. Not to mention feasting on the sight of my lovely dancer daughter. Going TO her was about as good a feeling as coming home always is. Reminds me of trips to GCC and Charlottesville in that respect.
love,
mOm (with an "O")

Your mother speaks. . . anonymous August 14 2004, 10:58:08 UTC

Re: Your mother speaks. . . anonymous August 14 2004, 13:05:47 UTC

No break-up? Now she's in denial. Mom's situation is far worse than I had suspected, Liz. When you get back let's make Mom and Dad sit down and watched "Parent Trap". It's our only hope.

Somebody Has To Be That Guy anonymous August 13 2004, 22:43:44 UTC

In this posting you refer to German as "much more scary"; while very cute, I must remind you that the comparative form here requires "much scarier". The superlative therefore would not be "most scary" but "scariest". Sorry Liz, but this is what Mom and Dad do to my emails :) And yes, I am the king of grammatical mistakes--ask Daniel. I referred to "less traffic lights" being down one street for which I severely castigated seeing as the traffic lights were a countable plurality; I should have said "fewer traffic lights". It's a harsh world back here in NH and I here the Brits are more laid back. Don't get too nostalgic. We're uptight here, remember?

Re: Somebody Has To Be That Guy anonymous August 13 2004, 22:47:54 UTC

1) "for which I WAS severely castigated"
2) I HEAR the Brits are more laid back.

Dohhhh!