Because this might cheer me up too

[arguchik]

I didn't do my RWPK thing on Friday, so I'm going to do it today instead. This coming Friday I will be traveling--glaucon and I are going East for the better part of 12 days (including the travel days on each end--we leave on 8/1 and return on 8/12). Other things in my life are making me feel really sad...in need of cheering up. I don't feel inclined to talk about it here. So here goes:

READING: Still savoring Adrienne Rich's On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. The essays are excellent--interesting and thoughtful. There's really nothing like reading cultural criticism and feminist theory written by a poet. Wordage: she haz it. I also just just just started Sheri Teppper's The Gate to Women's Country. I've been meaning to read this for awhile, and people keep telling me it's awesome. I've been on kind of a second-wave feminism and feminist SF kick lately. I've been reading everything from that ilk and era that I can get my hands on. Hmmm. Maybe I should teach a class on feminist SF...? That would be super cool, actually. I think I'll write it up, even if I have noone to whom I can really pitch it.

WEARING: Today I'm wearing jeans, a black tank top with a tan "tattoo" swallow (the bird) design on the front (it's made by Sailor Jerry, if that means anything to you). My usual silver doggie necklace, leafy ring, and black strappy slip on shoes, inside of which my feet are bare.

PLANNING: Mad phat grading, yo. I'm going to the Seattle Purlygirls knit night this evening, and will be grading furiously all damned day tomorrow. Just made plans for tomorrow with wondrousbeauty, to have lunch followed by a work date. I'm very much looking forward to that. Additionally, I'll be dog sitting for superannuated1l for a couple of days...then leaving for points East on Friday.

KNITTING: Last night I finished the body of my February Lady Sweater--it's turning out really nicely. Today I started a sleeve--took the held stitches off their scrap yarn and knit a couple of lace repeats. It's a little tight on a 16" circ needle, but I really don't want to use DPN's. (For the non-knitters, "DPN" stands for double-pointed needles. If you've ever seen someone knit socks and it looked like they were juggling a bunch of stabby sticks in an impossible configuration, you were witnessing someone using DPN's. My DPN's are especially stabby looking because they are super shiny nickel-plated brass with extra-sharp tips. Most people use bamboo or wood DPN's. I would, but I find them too sticky, and they mess up my gauge.) I'm hoping to finish this sweater before I leave on Friday, which should be do-able. Sleeves are pretty quick to knit. I want to knit the cardigan I'm planning for my mother during the upcoming trip. It should keep me plenty busy. When I finish that, I might start in on the knockoff of the Dude's sweater that I'm planning to make--by request--for glaucon. Or...I might do something else quicker and smaller first. I have so many projects on the drawing board!

Comments

[alice-at-night.livejournal.com]

oooooh. Sailor Jerry - my secret love! *swoon* Sweet but not too sweet, keeps me warm at night (although sometimes he does give me a headache.)

[malafrena.livejournal.com]

I read Gate to Women's Country and liked it. It was books after that (not sure how much after) that I started to dislike. My favorite stuff by her is out of print -- something like Marilyn, the Magus, and the Manticore. Also liked Southshore and Northshore.

My mom has been in town and I've been very involved in that. But I will try to give you a cheer-up call before you leave town.