Okay…I admit it. I have three calendars in my room and I never know the date. I never read my calendar e-mails and I seem to have a phobia about time, watches and clocks too… So imagine my surprise when I was talking to one of my most beloved/frustrating administrators of all time, (he’s frustrating… Read More

Okay, Roxie has this lovely picture posted of a most ‘prosperous’ kitty cat that totally cracked me up– and I was thinking that I missed my cats. No, not really my cats, just the cats I see on my daily walks–the ones I haven’t been taking. There’s this one cat–he’s all black, and all furry… Read More

Okay… health still bad, doc still puzzled, only now they’re throwing out scary words like ‘malignancy’ and ‘colonoscopy’ and I’m trying to keep my cool even as I keep you posted. That being said, I’m going on to some random stuff that has made me happy in the last couple of days… *** I got… Read More

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