I’ve not been around much lately. I just don’t have much to say, but let me fill you in on some things. My Table of Contents, let me show you it:


Two questions with which I need your help:

Am I the only one having trouble with Y!M these days?

Anyone want to travel in Europe with me this summer? I have to be in the UK from July 3-6, and am looking for company to then go around the continent a bit. I’m thinking either Prague or Bratislava, or maybe even Poland again.


I’m in love with "Eli Stone." I think it’s a hilarious show, in the same way I have come to find Boston Legal utterly hilarious. I bet it’s a blast to shoot, too – I mean, can you imagine a workday that involves dancing around with umbrellas and singing with Victor Garber? With whom, by the way, I am now in love.


A list of Music You Should Give Me Because I’m Too Cheap To Buy It And Too Lazy To Go To The Library:

Man in Black – Johnny Cash
Freedom – George Michael
anything by Regina Spektor
Hold On – KT Tunstall
I Go To Work – don’t actually know who sings it – rap/hip-hop from late 1980s.
Rehab – Amy Winehouse

Thanks, buffbanded!

Some work-related thoughts:

I love it when my co-worker laughs. He has the most evil-sounding laugh possible because of his alarmingly deep voice; I can’t help but laugh right back when I hear him.

And my other co-worker is made of awesome and win and I love her to the end of time and want to have her babies. I’m not sure her husband – of the deep voice and evil laugh – would approve.


Ways you know your life is weird:
1. Your psychologist looks like Amy Winehouse
2. She buys you a hand mixer. Your psychologist, not Amy Winehouse; it might actually have been LESS weird if it had in fact been Amy Winehouse.


Things I have knit since November:
A scarf that didn’t turn out like I wanted it to for the person I knitted it for
Twenty-four baby hats
One commisssioned hat for a friend
A practice swatch in which I found that cables are actually really easy
And this:



I knit this for my friend’s daughter, Charlotte, whom I’ve never met. I plan to spend my break doing the math to scale up this sweater for myself; it’s really a fabulously easy pattern and a lovely sweater.

Also, I have figured out how to knit vertical stripes, which also means I can now knit intarsia as the technique that allows for stripes will also allow for color changes.


Some random thoughts:

I bought skis in February. They have already paid for themselves by saving me money on rentals. Though to be honest, I wouldn’t have gone skiing this much if I had to pay for rentals. So the money I spent on the skis has given me a reason to go skiing, thus requiring the rentals I did not have to pay for because I have my own skis. Very handy, indeed.

The skis are orange and silver and white and sparkly and also have holographic calligraphy on them that looks like flames.

Today, while skiing, I almost ran over someone’s cell phone. Someone in the diagonal lane swooshed to a stop (it’s hard to stop when skiing downhill in the classical ruts), then went back and fetched it and gave it to me at the bottom of the hill. I called the person’s home number, and returned the phone.

Then on the way home from returning the phone, I missed being in a VERY bad car accident by a margin of about four feet. My blood literally ran cold for only the second time in my life. It was scary enough that, horribly lapsed Catholic that I am, I actually crossed myself afterward. Karma, I love you.