Courtesy of sparkymonster, I am now aware of Joy Nash and Fat Rant. One word: awesome.

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"We have a lot of people to interview," is actually code for "... and we're going to hire one of them, instead of you," isn't it? :( That's twice this week.

Wish I knew what I keep doing wrong. Someone asked me once how I deal with all the rejection. Honestly, what's the alternative?

I was sitting in the lounge area outside the Truman College library, on the lower level of the building, pounding away on my computer, when a ragged- and confused-looking man sat down in one of the armchairs and started muttering to himself. And to the ceiling. Something about fathers, and daughters, loaded with unintelligible words, and lots of ( Read more... )

You could say that these aren't the most awesome socks you've ever seen in your life, but you'd be lying.

Made 'em with Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock yarn and size 2 needles, based on the Universal Toe-Up Sock Formula. They took so long to make that I'm now afraid to actually put them on with shoes and wear them out of the house!

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Things I've learned in the past two weeks ( Read more... )

Ganked from mellacita, cleversticks, and probably appearing a few other places, too:

You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that ( Read more... )

I kind of got hit with a financial sucker punch yesterday, causing a large and immediate problem that I have no way of fixing right now. It was one of those things that make you wonder why you even bother trying, because someone, somewhere, is just going to make sure you get good and screwed, no matter what you do to keep things buzzing along as ( Read more... )

Something sort of funny happened this morning, and I thought, "That is so going on LJ!" And I was going to post pictures of my latest FO to knitting. 'Cuz, see, today started out okay. Then it took an entirely different direction ( Read more... )

Ugh. By which I mean, UGH.

Wherein the universe makes a first attempt at getting in my way (last week and the week before): ( Like my hair, this entry is cut for length )

I was going to post pictures of my first crochet project since, um, like, 1990 or so, but the pics were horrible, even for the camera phone I've been using, so, instead, some gratuitous cute:


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