Seriously– The worst part about being sick as that you don’t DO ANYTHING…I mean, I’ve been knitting, but one of the things I’m knitting I’m so embarrassed about… It’s hard to explain. My TA (and I make my TA’s something every year) wanted fingerless mitts…and she wanted them lacy…and she wanted this one colorway I… Read More

I totally appreciate the fact that you just dropped in today to observe me teaching after I had been gone for three days due to illness. Your complete lack of warmth or of facial expression was such a treat, too, especially because I get the same thing from your son, every day of the week…. Read More

Well, I called in sick yesterday and today. Yesterday was a doctor’s appointment and two very extreme signs from the universe, and today, I’ve been a giant banana slug–except I understand those things move sometimes. Yesterday’s ‘calling in sick’ was precipated (as you may have guessed) by the constant low-grade fever with the evening spike… Read More

Okay…Mother of Chaos tagged me with a meme of 8 random things. I’ve been tagged with this one before, so I think the challenge will be to see how truly random I get. I’m sort of the world’s most boring human–it’s gonna be tough. I’m tagging Catie, Roxie, Netter, Knittech, Lady in Red, Rae, Samurai,… Read More

I hesitate to do this because I’m afraid nobody will read yesterday’s post, which offers a teaser to BITTERMOON that I’m particularly proud of. But I can’t help myself… I’m such a sucker for a poll–I got this one from Samurai, and I’m going to outrage the purists and fill it out including my crochet… Read More

Okay…I’ve hit the 1/2 way part of BITTER MOON, and I promised Needletart that I’d use her story of how she learned how to knit in someway, because I was so very enchanted with it. The religion in the book is based on the three moons of the world–Oueant, god of honor, Dueant, god of… Read More

First of all, shout outs to Catie (boooyaa!) and S.Northrop (huzzah!) for giving me wonderful write-ups for their own respective amazons…I’m finally represented in Canada, and since I’ve had sort of a crush on the country since they served us take-out pizza in a phone booth during our school trip to Victoria, I’m pretty psyched!… Read More

Or maybe I’ll just post some pictures to reward you guys for all of your wonderful and warm words of encouragement–Catie, I can’t wait to read your review!!! Don’t worry about my last post, guys…there’s an axiom at our hs–don’t quit in the first six weeks or the last six weeks… or two weeks before… Read More

I was cruising on Friday–just cruising. I had been working pretty steadily, entering grades–my grades were not stellar, they were not pristine, but after six weeks of computer outage in 14 weeks of school, well, they were at least UNEMBARRASSING… I had two things to do. One, enter the late work that my more inconsiderate… Read More

It sucks… Wait, wait, there’s more. It sucks REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD. I do this every year. Every year I commit projects to students because I want to do it all. And then, once I’ve JUST ABOUT filled my project roster so that I, if I work very hard and ignore my family, might just… Read More