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Today is dark and deliciously rainy, just the kind of day that makes me want to hole up with my little laptop and type away (this is a good thing — my chapter desperately needs someone to sit and type away on it).  So this will be brief.
Remember how Yarn Harlot wanted to show the […]

Sorry for the absence.  I’ve been dancin’ away in North Carolina.  Right now, I’m holed up in the Charlottesville Panera, freezing to death (why, oh WHY must places in the south over-air-condition?  I even brought a sweater with me and I’m still cold), trying to finish a chunk of this chapter for a self-imposed deadline […]

[Warning:  this post has very little to do with knitting.  In my post-orangina daze, I’m taking a break.  Not sure where to go next.  Feel free to skip along if you don’t want to hear about computers.  or beer.  or my dissertation.]

What a beautiful memorial day weekend!  In the past, I’ve spent memorial day weekend […]

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 […]

UGH!  This is the worst.  I just wrote a long post and then lost the whole thing.  Motivation to post = zero.

What must be said?  The Northern Lights mittens (shown here basking in the thursday afternoon sun) are on hold, while I attempt (and attempt.  and attempt.) to rechart the fingers.  We’ll see if I […]

Oh yeah!
So I treated myself to knitting on Pomotamus while watching Fog of War, which I netflixed ages ago and never had a chance to watch (can I interrupt myself to note that “to netflix” now seems like a completely acceptable verb? My how things have changed!). I was all set to post about the […]

I realized today that I haven’t left my house (other than to walk up the lane to the mailbox and back) in a week. No wonder I’m depressed. But I’m almost — ALMOST — done with my last major grant (three more days. Just three more days and I’m done).
My Saturday night?
[that would be a […]

Thanks for all of your comments on the Swallowtail! I’m so pleased with how it turned out, and I think it’s made me a lace convert — I keep finding all these new patterns I want to make. So get ready for more lace to come.
So here and there over the last few […]