Category: As If You Asked
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Daylight Savings
You might want to move along, dear readers: there’s not much to see here. Daylight Savings has hit me hard. After a couple of weeks of waiting for my bus in the dark, it felt very wrong to step outside to a rainy but post-sunrise morning. And now, as I sit with some hard-earned knitting,…
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Instead of Cursing the Darkness
This has been a craptastic year for world events, hasn’t it? Stateside we have this election year that has been doing a great job of bringing out the worst in people. Not as bad as other things that could be happening, but still, a bunch of politicians sniping relentlessly at one another is not making…
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Still Knitting
Hello, dear readers. This may look like a picture of ribbing, or the beginning of a ribbed beanie, but it is actually a picture of three weeks. Three weeks is a long time in blog land, but in real life it went by in a snap. In these three weeks, I had my first tenure…
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Happy Birthday Yesterday
(Title courtesy of Mark Mulcahy: I know the version off this album) Happy New Year, one and all! My plan for the new year was to indulge myself in a day of rest, relaxation, and knitting. The unwashed laundry and uncleaned bathrooms and wedding planning together managed to exert such gravitational pull, however, that I…
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Not All Here
Sorry, mon peeps. I am not all here. The short of the long has never been my strong suit, but I will try here. Short: In early August, a good friend of mine listened as I gleefuly listed all the bothersome little things that I was able to get done while being unemployed. When I…
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I Live Like a Hermit in My Own Head
(Title from “Marching Bands of Manhattan,” by Death Cab for Cutie). Thank you, dear readers, for your patience as I continue struggling towards a normal posting schedule. I had never realized it, but my blogging schedule was closely tied to my working schedule. I would take photos and write posts early in the morning, before…
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In Another Life
Thanks everyone for your happy thoughts on all the little fuzzies. They were extra cute this weekend–I think they could feel the good karma. Today we are not going to have a post about knitting (I know, sad sniffles from me too). In one life, I am a slightly mad knitter with lots of pets…
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The Epic Shawl
Thanks guys for your comments on the last post! We are thoroughly installed back home now: I bought groceries for a week and washed a small mountain of laundry and have a nice thankyou bag of goodies all ready for Melba’s sitter (or carrier, more accurately). I was all ready to sit down and write…
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Warning: Bad Phone Pictures
Sorry guys. I only have a smidgy bit of time to post here. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. On Thursday I finished my class presentation. *insert trumpet noises* Did I tell you guys I was taking a class at ASU? I was. Digital Humanities, face-to-face, full semester. The paper is still not done, hence…
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