Randomness

[hummingwolf]

Today's random phrase from my subconscious: "fevered lizard."

As cold-blooded animals, lizards cannot become fevered unless they are overheated. Is my subconscious mind trying to tell me that I am overly stressed and need to move to a cooler, calmer environment?

Interestingly, infected lizards will induce fevers in themselves by moving to warmer areas if at all possible, and studies have shown that laboratory lizards who are allowed to do this recover from their infections more quickly than lizards who remain cool. Maybe my subconscious mind is trying to tell me that in order to fight some disease of the soul I need to move myself into a more exciting place?

Or maybe my subconscious just thinks that "Fevered Lizard" would be a great name for a rock band.

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In other developments, because I arrived at the Social Services office today too late for an interview, I now have an appointment for Monday morning at 8 a.m. Have I mentioned lately how much of a morning person I'm not? I'm gonna have to wake up before sunrise! It's not natural! ::whine::

(Little-known fact: The hummingwolf was once a morning person. She outgrew it.)

Other plans for today: Wait for people in assorted offices to return from lunch and make some necessary phone calls. I hate that my life these days revolves around the telephone. Why can't the folks I need to talk to for disability & job hunt related things correspond by e-mail like sensible people? Sheesh.

Okay, it's Halloween--time for chocolate.

Comments

lizard

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

"Mescal Lizard" could be the name of a rockband
and looks pretty calm
although as I think of it the lizard in the bottle
(which I do not buy,dont use mescal)looks kinda
forlorn ...
for sentimental reasons I would call the band then
"Living Mescal Lizard"...
+S.

Re: lizard

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there was a lizard in a bottle of mescal. Does produce an interesting mental image...

[whitelinefever.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a group I would see.
I am one of those weird people that live on the phone.It never leaves my ear during the day.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

See, I like having long conversations on the phone with friends, but for some reason I have this strange dread of calling anyone on the telephone--friend, foe, or stranger. No idea why, but there it is. So when I have a day planned that consists of making a bunch of important phone calls, most of them to people I don't know, I get cranky.

I just wish everybody would use e-mail.

[kenhighcountry.livejournal.com]

Although lizards do not get fecers, they are prone to colds, and URIs. Which is the reason you will often hear people talking about "sneezing lizards."

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

You are a very strange man.

Of course your mention of URIs made me think of Uri Geller, so now the lizards in my head are bending spoons with the power of their fevered minds.

Re:

[kenhighcountry.livejournal.com]

Just as long as they don't sneeze on the spoons. No one want to clean up after sneezing lizards.

You are a very strange man.

What if I'm normal?

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

hmmm, my dreams shall be quite interesting tonite! er, this morning...

;)

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

i love lizards!!!! they are so darn cuuuute!!!

i've actually gotten quite good at catching them w/my hands (only when they're stuck inside and need rescuing), poor things are so fragile and it's hard for me to breath when holding them, they are so terrified!!! :(

but at least they don't get tortured by the kitties. *phew*

kitty got one once, in her mouth, and the poor thing had some skin peeled back off his head, and a bloody eye :( :( i felt SOOOOOO badly :( i did some healing on him, and he just sat there in my hands for a bit... i tried talking to him to calm him down, but then i wondered: how do lizards hear? do they have little ear membranes?? huh. i also wasn't sure whether to wash off the little head injury. so i left it alone. i felt so incapable. but then, how many people know rudimentary lizard anatomy and emergency care??

actually, i think the fevered lizard sounds like a really good name for a nightclub!

and cb: uh, i didn't realize THE CAPITAL OF THE FREE WORLD was an UNexciting place to live. ;) ;)

just *think wild*
;)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

At the library yesterday I checked out a couple of books on lizards. One of them tells me, "All but a few lizards have fully functional ears. In some they appear as round, platelike scales or surface tympana, whereas in others the eardrum may be recessed. In general, the ears of reptiles are fairly simple. Snakes have no ears; this group depends primarily on feeling ground vibrations caused by sounds. Experiments with lizards indicate that they respond to sounds as well as low-frequency vibrations. Since only a few geckos have voices and it is not known whether they use their primitive vocal abilities to communicate, the only reason lizards would have to hear is to detect predators or prey (food)." There. Now we both know.

Hmm, I think you're right about the nightclub idea. I've never actually been in a nightclub at night...

Talking about moving to a more exciting place, I didn't mean physical places. Besides which, I'm not *in* DC--I have to pay money to get into the capital of the free world! Well, I *could* walk to the DC line, but really wouldn't want to...