Pastimes

I've just finished building a cathedral. That is, I have assembled the lego (technically not the actual Lego brand, but a similar idea) version of the Cathedral of St Florin at Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Anand and Gita bought it for me in Vaduz last summer while I was feeling sick back in the hotel room and wondering what on earth was wrong with me and why I wasn't getting better.

My cathedral

I've put the cathedral up on the mantelpiece next to my lizard from Arizona, which makes the lizard look like some sort of Jurassic Park-type dinosaur preparing to rampage through Vaduz.

In other pastimes, yesterday evening I went out to attend my first meeting of the plant club at the local library. It was a pleasant time, and no one said a word about cancer, which was a nice change. 

On my way home, though, I had the radio on, and I did hear about cancer. Specifically, I heard the words cancer and bowhead whales in the same sentence, which was a bit startling. Apparently, bowhead whales live for two hundred years or more but do not much get cancer, suggesting that they may have some important things to teach us.

And then I had terrible insomnia, all because I'd ventured out in the evening. I hadn't thought I was all that overstimulated, but I guess by contrast with my usual days I was. 

It's a little embarrassing that one little meeting about gardening would throw my system off like that.

Clearly, I need to get out more.