today it occurred to me that there are no gay people on star trek. weird. they tackle every other conceivable issue, but not that one. at least that i can recall. this is illogical. please correct me if i'm wrong, but i doubt any of you have watched more star trek than i have. which is... well, pathetic. but not unexpected ( Read more... )

things i learned today ( Read more... )

nom. i love thanksgiving. or, i do now. i used to hate it, but that was when we went to iowa. now it includes drunkenly putting up the christmas tree, which is FREAKING AWESOME ( Read more... )

arg. a knitting pattern does not exist for lace shaped like a snowflake. seriously, i'm going to knit a blanket for my great-grandmother in this really soft white yarn, and it's for christmas and i thought it would be neat to put snowflakes on it... but noooo ( Read more... )

*reprograms brain ( Read more... )

something i wrote on april 2nd:

they say that after you graduate college your life will begin. they are wrong. after college, the point is to beat your life into some sort of recognizable shape.

my life is now an 'amorphous solid.' like glass. or jello. am i too rigid or too flexible? dyed or colorless? it's tough to tell.

you wouldn't think knitting a blanket while watching a christmas carol would be a hazardous activity, but here i am, bleeding all over my keyboard. damn you patrick stewart! (just kidding! i love you!) i'm rather sad about how small the blanket turned out. i'm hoping it grows in the blocking process, but it won't be by much. i could expand it again ( Read more... )

also... does obama smoke? what? somebody figure this out for me.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece

i don't have enough good yarn for a sweater. i do, however, have a ton of this weird navy blue yarn that i got super cheap at yarn harbor. so i'm going to use it all up in a giant blanket, methinks. i've got about a square foot done of this star blanket.

you may also notice that i'm updating at 430-ish. am. yep. question is, do i stay up, or go to

arg. so cold. must. knit. new. sweater. i really want to make this one, with long, not-so-loose sleeves, but they want me to pay for the pattern. arg. don't want to. that site is has some really neat patterns though... for when i have moneys ( Read more... )