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Rona Shawl knit with malabrigo lace weight on size three needles.


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I just bought plane tickets! No turning back now, hematopoetic.

Also: I am currently reading The Search for the Giant Squid, and the author is spending quite a bit of time suggesting that various accounts of sea serpent sightings can be reinterpreted as giant squid sightings (where the head and body of the "sea serpent" is assumed to really be an arm or tentacle of a giant squid). This is JUST LIKE THE T- ( Read more... )

Headed back into the lion's den.

Wish me luck. And grace. I could use some grace.

Using purple basil does not, as I had hoped, result in purple ice cream.

PERSON WHO IS NOT ME: [blah blah blah, context, set up, touring brits complaining about freezing weather out at Crocker-Amazon]

ME: [reference to that quote about San Francisco summers, the one that wasn't by Mark Twain but gets attributed to him anyway]

PWINM: You know, before I came to California I thought that was about a woman.

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Taco Polo is a game I invented. I will explain it so that you, too, can play. Although it may sound like a dirty game, it is pure clean fun.

Requirements: at least two players and a taqueria, preferably El Toro.

Game Play: The game begins sometime after having made plans to go out for tacos, but before arriving at the taqueria. One player ( Read more... )

I think things may be dire if I'm contemplating going to library school just to give my life direction. I mean, do I even like my job?

I'm trying to explain to my girlfriend via cellphone how to knit a short-row heel. I don't think she really believes what I'm saying.