Sometimes you meet people that really make a difference in who you are and how you look at the world.  Ruby Olar was one of those people.  His list of accomplishments is long, but perhaps the thing that affected me the most was that Ruby Olar was Ruby Olar.  There is nobody else that will ever be like him, a devout Jew and Tai Chi Master and ( Read more... )

I have now finished my last semester, walked across the stage, and received my little 8.5x11 piece of paper that says "hey, you graduated with honors, so we had to reorder your diploma."  All in all, graduation was about how I expected, though Jon Hager's performance really did make at least part of it more enjoyable.  He really is almost sickening ( Read more... )

one more final, and then a real post from me!  hooray!  but until then...

http://billychasen.com/clock/

this is really really neat!  (work safe too) 

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As of four hours from right now, I will have finished my last classes of my undergraduate degree.  I stlil have a paper to write, and finals to take - but the classwork will be done.  Woohoo!  And my history professor announced today that he was only going to count one grade (out of the paper and final exam) so I dont' have to worry as much about ( Read more... )

I've had a list of things in my notebook that I wanted to write about - the guy dancing on the steamroller in the construction crew on highway 6, picking out a band for the wedding, handwriting, new knitting projects, my attachment to murlocs, why I'm a musician (and yet  don't practice the piano)... the list is quite long now ( Read more... )

I should've made these for Halloween.

http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall05/PATTpumpkins.html

So last may I bought some scrumtious red yarn that I figured I would make into a bag - but I discovered that it was totally angry with knitting needles. I had two skeins of it (Yarn Bee : Suede, in Cherry?), so I figured why not crochet it instead. I started working on it - and inadvertently got a picture of it when I was taking pictures of my ( Read more... )

Updated links to Celera (got rid of the busted one), and added one to Keiyla over at my blogspot journal.   Keiyla is now my knitting motivator.

::looks sheepishly at the 18'' of wool lace knit throw wound in a basket on the floor::

all I can say is that I'm glad I can't look with guilt upon all my other projects in progress. Wedding + Last Semester ( Read more... )