Category: Natter
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Death Pollen
While the rest of the country gets snowed on, Phoenix is being blanketed in drifts of big yellow pollen from the mesquite trees. Sure, it looks pretty, but everyone is terribly allergic to it. I am terribly allergic to it: today my head feels like it’s going to explode, my throat is scratchy, and my…
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Here Comes the Future
(title thanks to the Handsome Furs) The apartment is clean, and I think I am ready for the new year. 2013 was ram-packed full of *stuff* Four library conferences. Three sweaters (you’ll see the other two in a teensy bit). One ginormous blanket. My first Coachella. KITTENS More time with Melba, the best puppy in…
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Back Online
Hello again everyone! Analog week is over, and I’m back. Normally, I’m not into stunts or fasts or tests of endurance, but going analog for a week was pretty awesome. I didn’t go 100% analog: there was a day where I went online to apply for a job whose deadline was within analog week, and…
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School’s Out
School’s out, the job has ended, the thermometer’s rising, and I’m taking a week off. I’ll be taking a vacation from blogging, too. Don’t worry, though, I’ll be back before you know it 😉 Have a great week, everyone!
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Last of the Flowers
Most everything is done blooming. Just the palo verde trees and the occasional cactus, like this little guy behind my building. My job is almost done with, too. I am trying to look at this positively, as a gift of knitting time and time with Melba, instead of The End. We’ll see how well that…
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Blogging is Not What I’m Supposed to Be Doing Right Now
Right now, I’m supposed to be updating my cover letter. But I don’t want to. I spoiled myself utterly and beyond measure this weekend, putzing about Friday, putting up ornaments at Mum’s on Saturday (and eating yummy Trader Joe’s holiday treats. Those people are fiendishly clever when it comes to designing irresistible snack food.), and…
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A New Tactic
Knitting time has fallen by the wayside these past many weeks, and my peace of mind was definitely the worse for it. So I’m trying a rawther novel approach: instead of writing about knitting, I am actually going to knit. It’s so crazy, it might work. I am also making kale chips. Kale is inexpensive…
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Rough Start
Inexplicably, it’s November. I’m off to a bit of a rough start, beginning with a lack of coffee in my kitchen, but things are as clear and dry as usual here in Phoenix. Good thoughts to everyone back east–may you November end much, much better than it started.
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Under Cover
I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth, I swear. I’ve been doing some undercover crafting for a very special someone’s birthday. Big reveal after the gift has been received!
Anti-Quotidian 