Yesterday, thunder, lightning, pouring rain; today, the Austin City Limits Festival. I drove to the pool past a number of detours, and found the pool temporarily fenced off from the parking lot. There’s a south entrance I’ve never used and am nervous about in the dark and couldn’t figure out how to get to anyhow. I drove to the YMCA.
This weekend it will be in the 50s in the morning, & I’m longing to swim in the cold.
Today I taught and met with students all morning. I was talking to one of my beloved thesis students and thought I would show off this elegant cardboard box that holds, on index cards, most of my last novel, part of my revision process. I opened the box. I looked inside. Was that a rubber band? Wait—
“Oh!” I said. “There’s a lizard in this box!”
I flung the box away from me. I hope I didn’t fling it at my student.
The lizard went skittering around. We tried to capture the lizard to liberate it—it is possible, probable, that I was the less brave of the two of us—but it skittered behind some skirting board.
I might try to be brave on Sunday morning. Fifty degrees! It seems impossible.
“ Yesterday, thunder, lightning, pouring rain” tried to simultaneously give a Macbeth and a James Taylor ear worm 😳
Embrace the lizard. They are friends. May you get to swim in the cold!