Category: Natter
-
Just Like Winter!
After nine years, I’ve grown accustomed to the short periods when the weather, as in not sunny and hot, asserts itself in the desert. In the summer, it’s monsoons, windstorms followed by thunderstorms, both of which are breathtaking displays of nature’s brute force. There are monsoons in the winter, too, but these usually entail a…
-
Abandon/Control
As a student, my year follows a slightly different cycle from the average person’s. My “year” officially ends with the end of the fall semester, and while I certainly mark the new calendar year January 1, my “year” doesn’t actually start until the start of the spring semester. In between is a short, blissful period…
-
New Colors!
What do you guys think? I went in from the reader’s end yesterday, and it knocked me over the head how much I dislike pastels (personal issue–they have their place, por ejemplo en suéteres de Hermanita, but not on my blog). So I changed my color scheme. Any thoughts on the new look? And yes,…
-
Friends in High Places
I came out into the living room with the intention of continuing my punishment–I mean, finals–but Stella came and got into my lap before I had a chance to get my binder or my knitting, so another post it is. (Yes, I could just move the dog and get my stuff. But she’s just so…
-
Dark Music for Dark Nights
Happy Halloween! Stella is barking with the force of a thousand Great Danes at small bands of smaller children who, quite clearly, are planning to invade our home, las Hermanitas are costuming for a party and door-answering, and I am planning on sitting down for a night of my favorite fall music and some knitting.…
-
Week 9: Old Knits
I was hard pressed to come up with a topic for this post. Lots o’ projects and lots o’ dry, precise writing (I can never be interesting and precise at the same time) does not make for good blog fodder. Enter Lolly. This blogger is always filled to brimming with excellent ideas that other knitters…
-
Fall is in the Air!
The first day of fall is here, and you can smell it in the blissfully cool air. Meaning you can smell the air, and things growing in it, as opposed to the smell of melting asphalt. We don’t have any fall colors, per se, but I have a little collection of fallish pinecones on my…
-
Like the Box
I love my Pandora account. I mean, songs played for free in their entirety–like Martha says, it’s a good thing. Big however: there is some sort of quirk in the program that will on occasion cause it to take my feedback and absolutely blitz me with music from one particular artist. As a consequence, I…
-
Really Quick
A pictorial summary of my week thus far: I’m back in Tucson for another class. I’ve got the same room in the same door, and check it out– There’s a crane under my window! Surprisingly, it’s not near as loud as the much smaller earth moving vehicles. I really miss Stella. _uacct = “UA-4598949-1”;urchinTracker(); (Bad…
-
Like a Vacation, but Not at All
Hello from hot, humid Tucson, Arizona! I am currently entrenched in the middle of a week-long intensive–all libraries, all the time. The mountains are what I see when I look out the window at my dorm… Here’s what’s underneath my window. Every day starts at 5:30… Thank goodness I brought my sock… And for some…
Anti-Quotidian 