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I promised y’all photos from San Antonio.  Alas, I got back to Philly over a week ago, and no photos.

San Antonio was beautiful–warm, sunny, and professionally rewarding.  Unfortunately, my trip to San Antonio was also the calm before a completely unexpected disaster of a storm.  I’m in over my head right now, and I think […]

… ’cause I’m leaving town tomorrow for a conference and am frantically trying to finish my conference paper (I know, I know. But this one totally snuck up on me!).
Yeah. So I’m leaving tomorrow for a conference in San Antonio. Things have been stressful (and grumpy) lately, and I thought that it […]

Like much of the east coast, it’s been deliciously cool in Philadelphia these past few days.  Unfortunately, that coolness has been accompanied by a lot of rain.  The gloom has made photography difficult, but today I gave up and took pictures anyway.  Because I had to prove to you all that I have been knitting.

I […]

I’m home, after a lovely, if exhausting vacation. I’m swamped with work, and feeling particularly unfocused, so I’m going to try not to use blogging as a procrastination today. But I’ll leave you with some photos from my trip (if you’re really interested, there are more on my flickr page).

My dad’s family has […]

… But I’ve fled the heat of the city.  I’ve spent the last three days in the Adirondacks.
I’m unshowered.  Wearing the same cut-off shorts.  Taking frequent dips in the lake.  Knitting this sock.  And, most importantly, writing.  Writing, writing, writing.  Because this chapter is clearly not writing itself.
I’ll have pictures and much more when I […]

Today I took stock, and I clearly have a problem.

That’s seven pairs of socks, unfinished.  And I keep wanting to cast on for new ones.  It seems I’ve also become an unwitting member of the single sock liberation movement.

That’s ok.  But I think maybe it’s time to tie up some loose ends and move on.  […]

I go away for a few days and there are 145 feeds in my bloglines. I’ll never catch up.It’s sunny and 80 here in Kentucky. Thank you, weather gods, because this is exactly what Ineeded, and the weather is perfect for festival-going.  It feels very, very good to be back here.  In […]

As if the nasty weather weren’t enough, I’ve been floored by a particularly aggressive cold.  I haven’t even felt much like knitting, although I cast on and knit a few inches of my mom’s new fingerless gloves (good lord, this particular shade of lorna’s is beautiful!  You would never have known it from the skein, […]

I had a post of recent knitting all written and tidy, but my camera battery refuses to charge before the light disappears, so I’ll save it for tomorrow.  BUT — I thought I’d share some photos from my recent trip to Colonial Williamsburg and up the Eastern Shore.  Before I do, just a note — […]

I’m back from Pittsburgh, where I had a lovely time.  The conference was “eh.”  While I write about American music, the Society for American music isn’t really my society.  I’m an ethnomusicologist by method and theory, and SAM is a little… well, historical for me.  We’ll leave it at that.  My paper was on the […]