Twinknit

I’m dropping all kinds of balls — yarn, music, and otherwise. But I’m giving a paper at a conference this weekend (last one of the season, thank god!) and scrambling to pull stuff together. I’ll be back from sunny, warm, and historic Colonial Williamsburg on Monday and then I can pick up where […]

As requested (and to tide you over while I get the Sound Swap stuff together), here’s the recipe for those spicy chocolate cookies (note - I make mine w/o Chocolate Chips. I don’t know why. I just do).

Hot Chocolate Chip Cookies
(yields 4 dozen)
Ingredients:
¾ cup (1 ½ stick) butter
2/3 unsweetened cocoa
¾ cup sugar (plus […]

*ETA: I tried to post this this morning… now it’s more of a “Sunday Evening” post. Oh well. I’m definitely getting on that internet action tomorrow. This is worse than dial-up!*
This afternoon, I’m going to a bridal shower for my friend Anna. I offered to make cookies (good motivation to finish unpacking […]

Wow. I’m so excited about the response I got to the (now somewhat officially named) Sound Swap. I’m gonna pull together the details this weekend and will have an official post about the whole business by Monday. A few items for thought:
1. I did some research, as I am wont (and trained) […]

Since the photos-function of my internet is still painfully slow, and because I like to keep y’all in suspense about my beautifully organized kitchen, I thought I would put out some feelers about a swap I’ve been wanting to throw together. Here’s the deal — I love music, which you might have figured […]

I’m at school, where the internet works with glorious speed. So here’s the first of several delayed posts:

Better late than never — I finished these Friday. They were meant to be my Sock Madness qualifying socks, but I just don’t knit that fast. It’s just as well, because I realized half way […]

Dear Internet I’m ’stealing’ from one/a few of my neighbors — I appreciate you, especially your freeness, your lack of password protection, and your convenience (as well as your cutesy little names — like Ethiopia [’cause I live in a largely East African neigborhood] and Trouble) . But Jeez-Louise, you’re slow! It’s taken me 36 […]

I haven’t really had coffee yet this morning, so here are some random thoughts (and some really bad pictures… sorry about that!).

1. Today is a winter day as only Philly can do it — it’s both raining and sleeting.  Yum.  I forgot about the black-grey rainy grossness that is  Philadelphia in the winter.  And I […]

A few weeks ago, I kind of unwittingly entered a contest over at Through the Loops.  Lo and behold, while in Pittsburgh I checked my e-mail to find that I had won!  This is my first contest win and it definitely came at a good time, because yesterday I went into the department for the […]

What craziness! I always forget how much I hate moving until I’m in the middle of it, at which point I swear I’ll never move again. I think my dad made some kind of joke about childbirth when I told him that… In anycase, I packed up all of my stuff:

…and hauled it […]