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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…
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I Make a List
1. The Red Scarf, a.k.a. the Movie Scarf, is in the mail. Yaaay! 2. Pandora has tried to put Modest Mouse on my Death Cab station. Extermination is underway. 3. Pictured drying beside it is my version of the Cisco baby bonnet: Baby Blue Ears. It’s heavily influenced by the brilliant B r o o…
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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…
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Week One: Pulling the Plug
First week of grad school proper over, and I’m still here with what sanity I had to begin with. Such as it is. Whoo hoo! I like it, although this whole online classroom thing really weirds me out. Yes, I know, it’s sort of like blogging. But still. One thing I’ve learned is that there…
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Temporary Madness
Fall semester has started, and with a full load of classes, I feel like I’m officially a grad student. Ahhhhh! I went on a finishing-up and cleaning-up spree this past weekend. The cleaning went well, the projects not so much. The scarf above (crummy picture–I was home alone with my camera) is the only finished…
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So Much for Soon
I’ve taken my time getting this project finished, and then there was the usual trouble catching one of las hermanitas in a picture taking mood while the light was still decent. But! I have finished my Latvian socks, and I rawther adore them. Specs!Pattern: Latvian Socks, by the venerable Nancy Bush.Yarn: Rio de la Plata…
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Divigation While I Finish My Final Project
Not a whole lot of knitting is going on here. Most of my creative energy (not to mention time) is going towards the final project for my Preservation class: bookbinding! Never you fear–the socks I have been working on forever are in the home stretch, and a post just for them will come soon. In…
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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…
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The Sock 2
The sock is back on track! (Wouldn’t it make a very nice mitt, too? Just throw in a space for the thumb to come out…) And here is the little beginning of a heel flap. I’m so excited to be getting to the exciting part of the sock. Not that I don’t love the meditative…
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I Find Wisdom on the Inside of a Juice Bottle
It was a really. Long. Week. Tucson was absolutely awesome, my class was awesome, most of the people *in* the class were awesome, but ye gods. Eight hours of information a day for seven days straight is a *lot*. So long that when I tipped back a rawther nasty juice I bought on impulse at…
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