Posts for category ‘Extras’

My human hates watching the news.  So invariably I try to bombard her with current events as much as possible.  Here are a few things that popped out to me this week, some may not be new or headline but they are new to me.

credit:  Washington State Dept of Transportation on Flickr	“Naturally she’s obsessed with entertainment.” Leverage will be back next summer! Can’t forget Ponyo! Plus, some suggest it’ll make the $10 million mark so if you haven’t seen it yet go today. One more Ponyo post I found that was insightful and made me want to see it again.
Sidewalks:  Transportation|Architecture|Infrastructure Cash for Clunkers out of gas Pittsburgh’s Walkability Check your neighborhood’s walkability score Found a live stream of the Blyman Bridge in Gloucester, MA.  Just curious, why would you watch that all day?  Perhaps you’re waiting to catch someone else on your boat?  Remind me never to walk across that bridge, makes me feel like Eagle Eye or something. Tokyo hotel concept as part of exhibit that ends August 29, 2009. Found a Flickr Group for World Bridge Construction. Sweets:  All food is sweet to eL Bo Luc Lac: Translation, yum.   How I like my soup- cold. It’s been two months without pizza and I have to see this! Species:  Humans and other life forms Michael Jackson death ruled homicide and would’ve been 51 yesterday. Spike Lee event yesterday to remember him.  Ted Kennedy died after battling brain cancer. Mako shark caught in Massachusetts on August 28, 2009.  What do you do with 20,000 dead ants? Make a sculpture, of course.	credit:  reggaedori on Flickr credit:  rengber on Flickr

“Eliza, that is one strange combination of news.  Especially since there is very little news.  You should change the title to eL’s Links of Week or something.”

Don’t question genius.  Now get back to working on my memoir.  Where were we?  Then she became ruler over the world and made all humans her slave.

”Are you writing your own memoirs again?  It’s not supposed to be fantasy but factual.  Although, coming from you it’s all fiction anyways isn’t it?”

A message from the author:
Enjoy snippets from Eliza Leigh’s Memoirs.  They are in no particular order so check back often and read Eliza Excerpts

As told by Eliza Leigh~

When I was very young I dreamed of being a queen.  My colony was quite large so we had more than one queen at a time.  My mother was the oldest, at least 20 human years.  She would tell me how one day I would be a queen like her.

Sadly, a Hurricane destroyed that dream.  I was still in my formative years when the “great storm” (possibly Wilma) struck.  Queens are determined by the nutrition they receive as baby ants, or larvae.  This is the case in any ant colony and ours was no different.  Fighting to survive the “great storm” that ripped our nest asunder caused my proper nutrition to naturally become a luxury.  Once the storm abated, work began to repair our home and clean up the carnage left behind.

It was because of this that my mother and queen recognized that although I had entered the work force through necessity I was rather good at my job.  Instead of me, one of my sisters (a breeder) would rule beside our mother and I would continue on to find my destiny.