I am in the midst of making a shawl for a friend of mine who has had a really rough year, in her favorite color, blue. With pretty sparkly beads. The second part (of three) had gotten me a bit lost and progress has been slow recently, but I finally finished the first repeat of it and the lightbulb went off and it works... and now I want more than ( Read more... )

I learned something about myself today ( Read more... )

So the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened recently and I did my level best to ignore it. I already think too much about 9/11 and it makes me want to bang my head against a wall until teh aftermath since starts to make sense.

In honor of that anniversary, I'm reposting some lovely tidbits from Bruce Schneier's recent newsletter ( Read more... )

I'm headed to Vienna this afternoon. I'm choosing not to take a computer and instead to take knitting and a book (The Source, by Mitchner) and will be turning my phoine off by 7 pm Eastern tonight. I will return, happy and with boyfriend next Thursday afternoon ( Read more... )

No more big storms/power outages without M, please ( Read more... )

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 Remind me to never sign up for another hobby that includes people again.

I've been averaging two weeping breakdowns over LARP a week for a while now. Today's is right on schedule.

 You cannot argue someone into feeling better.

Especially if what they are feeling upset about is what they see as a lack of judgement on your part.

P.S.  I don't have the time/energy/will to devote to this shit. 

Lots of things are going well in my life - I'm loving knitting, I have this awesome boyfriend, game is tomorrow ( Read more... )

So I have started knitting as a sit down/low energy project I can do while keeping my brain engaged and feeling productive ( Read more... )