Bright: how I'd describe the sky over Reykjavik at 11:36 PM.

Lindargata: name of the street I live on. (Names of streets I am glad I do not live on: Skolavodustugur, Gnodarvogur, Braedraborgarstigur).

Bugs: not indigenous. Meaning: 1. permission to eat cookies in bed; 2. leniency on trash removal; 3. no Charlotte, no web.

Bright and Pink: how I'd describe the sky at 12:30, when I brush my teeth, look out the sky, and wonder if Mother Nature might fly by on a broomstick.

"The Viking Platter": Fermented shark, dried herring, pickled cod, blood sausage. It's never a good sign when you're about to sample a local food, and a local takes out his/her camera phone.

Price of Viking Dinner/Nausea: $91 

Fjord: A word heard constantly in Iceland. A word, when heard that constantly, warrants a glance in the dictionary. Fjord: a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes.

Fjordy: Iceland's coastline.

Bjork: sponsor/singer of a free concert last weekend, attended by about a tenth of the country.

Bright and White: the light that fools me out of bed, daily, at 4a.m.

Style: leggings, aviator sunglasses, scarves, leather boots, earrings infrequently, eye-shadow in gobs, capes.

Phone book: listed by first names.

Why: The surname here is only a father's tag. For example, Molly Kinder Molly Drewsdottir (Drew's daughter). Bush = Georg Georgsson.

Recommended reading: the phone book. Particularly if you are looking, say, for Americans living in Iceland. Amid the long columns of Injibjorgs and Gudmundurs, a Frank leaps right out. 

Frank: a 96-year-old American living in Iceland. Though when he boarded his military ship in 1941, Frank was told only the code name of his destination: "Blue Indigo."

Blue Indigo: a color I could more easily fall sleep under.

Nyquil: what I distinctly remember purchasing at the CVS on Park Avenue and 28th. 

Nyquil: what I can find nowhere in my luggage.

"Bed in Summer": the Robert Louis Stevenson poem I committed to memory in the third grade, and have been waiting almost twenty years to use.

Nyquil: what I recently dreamed about swallowing—two, emerald-green tablets, without water

Meaning of Nyquil Dream: I fell asleep.