I'm debating on whether or not to go on a rant about vaginoplasty; there's an article in the Times. Gals - just leave it be. Nobody cares about your beef curtains. If there's discomfort involved, that's one thing, but if it's just for asthetics ... get over it. By the time your partners get to that point, they're not really worried about it.
And go see Kinsey; it was good.
maandag, november 08, 2004
Well,
I'm still waiting for the mittens from my exchange. It's getting cold; I hope they come soon. it's s'posed to go below freezing tonight.
Volleyball is still going. I'm not particularly feeling love from the team this week. Probably just paranoia. I haven't really spoken to anyone to feel love or otherwise. But I've joined another league for the winter season. It will probably be in addition to my current team, but we'll see. I also found a dodgeball league. That would be fun too.
I've finally become a poker lemming. We're having a game of Texas Hold 'Em this evening. I can't believe how much poker I watch on tv. But you just get sucked into it. The editing makes the game seem more incredible than it is. How many times in your life are you going to flop a set of aces? Or have two nines in the flop, a nine on the turn, AND on the river? But both happened on one episode of Celebrity Poker, as if this were a normal occurance.
As usual, I haven't knit, spun, or woven a g-d thing. Oddly enough, I haven't brewed anything either. I'm mired in ennui. I haven't even been running. I should have yesterday; it was gorgeous. I watched the start of the NYC marathon instead. Not that that made me feel any better. Nothing like a photo of a legless man or a man in a rhino suit running, to make you feel like a total schlumpf. I've seen the rhino guy before - back in '93. Saw Fred LeBow then too.
Tucson, December 2005! (Yeah, right ....)
I'm still waiting for the mittens from my exchange. It's getting cold; I hope they come soon. it's s'posed to go below freezing tonight.
Volleyball is still going. I'm not particularly feeling love from the team this week. Probably just paranoia. I haven't really spoken to anyone to feel love or otherwise. But I've joined another league for the winter season. It will probably be in addition to my current team, but we'll see. I also found a dodgeball league. That would be fun too.
I've finally become a poker lemming. We're having a game of Texas Hold 'Em this evening. I can't believe how much poker I watch on tv. But you just get sucked into it. The editing makes the game seem more incredible than it is. How many times in your life are you going to flop a set of aces? Or have two nines in the flop, a nine on the turn, AND on the river? But both happened on one episode of Celebrity Poker, as if this were a normal occurance.
As usual, I haven't knit, spun, or woven a g-d thing. Oddly enough, I haven't brewed anything either. I'm mired in ennui. I haven't even been running. I should have yesterday; it was gorgeous. I watched the start of the NYC marathon instead. Not that that made me feel any better. Nothing like a photo of a legless man or a man in a rhino suit running, to make you feel like a total schlumpf. I've seen the rhino guy before - back in '93. Saw Fred LeBow then too.
Tucson, December 2005! (Yeah, right ....)
maandag, september 27, 2004
Still not much to report on the Fiber Front, unfortunately. I snapped the driveband on the Dundas, and instead of just making a new one, I dragged out the Millie and have been spinning on that. Which I guess is good; it's horribly under utililzed. My finger still twinges when I flex it, but it doesn't hurt nearly as badly. However, I still can't touch my palm. It's a new volleyball season, so either it'll get better or worse.
October is normally a big fiber time for me. I almost always go to Rheinbeck, but I'm going to skip it this year. There's a beer event in NYC that weekend, which sounds like much more fun. I've mentioned it to my friend to see if he can get his band to play there. Honestly though, fiber is the last thing I need to spend money on.
I've resolved to get the 6 bags of fiber out of my office this week. (The rest of the household is on vacation, so I should be able to get it stashed away without comment.)
I've still been running, although I cheated this week. I just didn't feel like it. It happens sometimes. I walked about half the route, then changed my usual path home to include some hills. Whenever I don't run the entire time, I either go farther or run harder on the parts I do run. Anyway... by changing my route I neglected to stretch (no bars/barres on this route), and my legs are still sore.
What would my life be without something or other to complain about?
October is normally a big fiber time for me. I almost always go to Rheinbeck, but I'm going to skip it this year. There's a beer event in NYC that weekend, which sounds like much more fun. I've mentioned it to my friend to see if he can get his band to play there. Honestly though, fiber is the last thing I need to spend money on.
I've resolved to get the 6 bags of fiber out of my office this week. (The rest of the household is on vacation, so I should be able to get it stashed away without comment.)
I've still been running, although I cheated this week. I just didn't feel like it. It happens sometimes. I walked about half the route, then changed my usual path home to include some hills. Whenever I don't run the entire time, I either go farther or run harder on the parts I do run. Anyway... by changing my route I neglected to stretch (no bars/barres on this route), and my legs are still sore.
What would my life be without something or other to complain about?
dinsdag, augustus 31, 2004
My finger is still messed up. I can't touch my palm when I bend it. (All of the other fingers can do this.) It's affecting my setting in volleyball. So I haven't been spinning or knitting or whatnot. I also can't get the ring off of that finger - I've tried soap, oil, etc. It's on there for good. Weird. I'm going to have to figure this out at some point.
vrijdag, augustus 13, 2004
Back from vacation. No, I didn't look for any yarn store and I didn't knit on the plane. It was Florida for god's sake - there are other things to do. Anyway, I sprained a finger a couple of days before I left, and I barely feel like typing, much less knitting.
I finished my fittin' mitten exchange gloves before jamming my finger, so I just have to send them out. Only 3 months early - who'da thunk it?
I have to mail a b-day present today and I'm at a loss as to what to get my father. We're the type of folk who need nothing!
Mindless quiz time:
Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That'll be ten ponies, guv. You're the epitome of everything that is english. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack!
I finished my fittin' mitten exchange gloves before jamming my finger, so I just have to send them out. Only 3 months early - who'da thunk it?
I have to mail a b-day present today and I'm at a loss as to what to get my father. We're the type of folk who need nothing!
Mindless quiz time:
Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That'll be ten ponies, guv. You're the epitome of everything that is english. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack!
How British are you?
this quiz was made by alanna
woensdag, juli 14, 2004
I finally abused the yarn too much. Last night I was out drinking with the team and I had the project in a zippered bag. The yarn got caught in the zipper. My teammate was able to get it unstuck without breaking the yarn, but when I went to pay for the cab, I saw it was stuck again. It snapped this morning, since I don't have my teammate's patience. Oh well, I have to frog it anyway. I'll use that bit for the thumb.
dinsdag, juli 13, 2004
Knitting is boring.
There's nothing that's really a challenge anymore. I'm working on a piece that's probably the slowest thing I've ever done. Mostly because I knit it up to the thumb and then frog it EVERY DAY. It's the reversible mittens from Homespun Handknit, where you're knitting a two color mitten, but you're also knitting the same pattern inverted at the same time, so you'll be able to turn the mitten inside out and have the exact negative. It's kinda clever, but it's a bitch to implement. First of all it's on 1s in fingering weight, so there are more stitches than my usual gloves/mittens. Then I had to get used to purling in the round, with my left hand. (I'm a thrower - English knitter; I knit Continental fine, from doing stranded colorwork, but I've rarely had occasion to purl.) On top of that you have to make sure the floats are carried between the two layers, and that you're knitting the pattern correctly on both layers. This does not make for "zen"/commuter knitting.
The first time I frogged it was because I wasn't happy with my tension and my increases were sloppy. The second time I seemed to have miscounted the increase row. This time there are two lattice stitches knitted in the wrong color on the light side, and one on the dark. Feh! (Yes, I know I can just duplicate stitch them in later, but that would be cheating, wouldn't it?)
The thing is, the pattern isn't difficult; I'm just not paying attention well enough. (No matter how complicated a knitting pattern is, it's basically the same stitch mechanism as your average garter-stitch, skittle-puke, fake-fur scarf.) I can easily see myself getting bored before I get to the other mitten.
The one good thing is that my spinning has held up rather well through all of the frogging and abuse. I spun a good yarn for this. The light yarn is a little thinner than the dark, but it holds its own.
There's nothing that's really a challenge anymore. I'm working on a piece that's probably the slowest thing I've ever done. Mostly because I knit it up to the thumb and then frog it EVERY DAY. It's the reversible mittens from Homespun Handknit, where you're knitting a two color mitten, but you're also knitting the same pattern inverted at the same time, so you'll be able to turn the mitten inside out and have the exact negative. It's kinda clever, but it's a bitch to implement. First of all it's on 1s in fingering weight, so there are more stitches than my usual gloves/mittens. Then I had to get used to purling in the round, with my left hand. (I'm a thrower - English knitter; I knit Continental fine, from doing stranded colorwork, but I've rarely had occasion to purl.) On top of that you have to make sure the floats are carried between the two layers, and that you're knitting the pattern correctly on both layers. This does not make for "zen"/commuter knitting.
The first time I frogged it was because I wasn't happy with my tension and my increases were sloppy. The second time I seemed to have miscounted the increase row. This time there are two lattice stitches knitted in the wrong color on the light side, and one on the dark. Feh! (Yes, I know I can just duplicate stitch them in later, but that would be cheating, wouldn't it?)
The thing is, the pattern isn't difficult; I'm just not paying attention well enough. (No matter how complicated a knitting pattern is, it's basically the same stitch mechanism as your average garter-stitch, skittle-puke, fake-fur scarf.) I can easily see myself getting bored before I get to the other mitten.
The one good thing is that my spinning has held up rather well through all of the frogging and abuse. I spun a good yarn for this. The light yarn is a little thinner than the dark, but it holds its own.
