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The first thing I ever knit was a scarf. It was a horrible lumpy thing made of horrible lumpy yarn in horrible lumpy beginner's garter stitch, which mysteriously gained and lost stiches (and width, sometimes without logical correlation between the two) every row. It was long, and it took forever, and by the time I cast off and then cast it into ( Read more... )

So in all this time I’ve not been blogging, what have I been doing? Simply put, finishing things ( Read more... )

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Last week was finals; this week is nothing. I feel strangely lost, adrift without anchor. I'm seeking multiple summer jobs, but as they'll have to accommodate my summer class (which starts halfway through June) successful employment remains, so far, beyond my grasp. C'est la vie. If you know someone in the Fort Collins area, preferably in the ( Read more... )

The other day the wind howled like a living thing, an angry thing. James and I gathered at a window to watch a recycling bin whisk down the street; too far ahead for us to possibly catch up even before we noticed it. It was a day for staying inside ( Read more... )

Here in Colorado (or Northern/Front Range Colorado, to be specific) we're having our first truly snowy day of the year. We've had a bit of snowfall before now, but it was always at night and melted quickly by day.

Loki, the little kitten who eats my yarn, was quite impressed.


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The window is open and through it I hear birdsong. Oh, sweet hope for Spring ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to write a manifesto for this blog, and maybe a few other things. Seems like a good dawn-of-the-year activity, no? A manifesto is defined as a statement, a public declaration, of personal intentions and principles- something I've always thought was important to keep clear and straightforward in my own mind, whether I take the ( Read more... )