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On a Saturday...better late than never, I guess. I was sick yesterday so I slept right through my Friday feature which is only semi-regular at best anyway. Hope nobody was on the verge of mental collapse yesterday, waiting for me to post this.
READING: Just to clarify--I am no longer going to discuss stuff I'm reading for "work" purposes here, i.e. for class or for my dissertation. From now on, this space is reserved for nightstand reading only. So. Right now the only book I have going is Wallace Stegner's The Spectator Bird. I enjoyed Angle of Repose so much when I read it several years ago, that I have always been meaning to pick up more of his stuff. Now I have. This is a short little book about an old guy and his wife reliving a time in their lives that...I'm not sure yet. The guy has been reading aloud to his wife from his journals of that time period, journals she didn't know he had kept. So they are "sharing" the experiences anew. The journals are from when they traveled together to Denmark, from where the man's ancestors come; they ended up letting half an apartment from a noblewoman who has fallen from grace because of her husband's apparent collaboration with the Nazis during the War. Clearly, something life- and marriage-altering happened with this woman, Astrid, but I haven't figured out what yet. I'm guessing it was an affair...and that the husband thinks the wife doesn't know about it, but she does. I'll let you know whether or not I was right about that.
WEARING: jeans, black t-shirt, black socks, shoes, and the burgundy sweater I knit for myself somewhat recently. (It's the Strawberry Lace Cardigan from Veronik Avery's Knitting Classic Style, and I finished it like 3 weeks ago.)
PLANNING: tonight, going to a wine party at my friend L's house. Tomorrow I'm going to finish cleaning my room and moving my office to the basement, plus I have some work that I'm going to try to actually do in my new office-y space. My bedroom was getting way too crowded and driving me insane, hence the move.
KNITTING: I'm knitting on several projects somewhat half-assedly. I'm not on an especial mission to finish any of them. On one set of needles, I have my first pair of socks. The first sock is done, and I'm about 3" into the cuff of the second sock (they are top-down). For bus knitting, I'm working on my second rendition of the Lace Ribbon Scarf (from last Spring's Knitty), which I'm knitting with the yarn specified in the pattern this time. And last but not least, I have a rendition of Jess's Gansey (from Interweave Knits) going. It's at a small gauge, so it's going very slowly. It's the project that is destined to go on and off the back burner for the next several months, because I have a couple of projects to knit for other people during that time. I'm hoping to start the first of those, a cardigan for my mother, sometime next week, and possibly tomorrow.
READING: Just to clarify--I am no longer going to discuss stuff I'm reading for "work" purposes here, i.e. for class or for my dissertation. From now on, this space is reserved for nightstand reading only. So. Right now the only book I have going is Wallace Stegner's The Spectator Bird. I enjoyed Angle of Repose so much when I read it several years ago, that I have always been meaning to pick up more of his stuff. Now I have. This is a short little book about an old guy and his wife reliving a time in their lives that...I'm not sure yet. The guy has been reading aloud to his wife from his journals of that time period, journals she didn't know he had kept. So they are "sharing" the experiences anew. The journals are from when they traveled together to Denmark, from where the man's ancestors come; they ended up letting half an apartment from a noblewoman who has fallen from grace because of her husband's apparent collaboration with the Nazis during the War. Clearly, something life- and marriage-altering happened with this woman, Astrid, but I haven't figured out what yet. I'm guessing it was an affair...and that the husband thinks the wife doesn't know about it, but she does. I'll let you know whether or not I was right about that.
WEARING: jeans, black t-shirt, black socks, shoes, and the burgundy sweater I knit for myself somewhat recently. (It's the Strawberry Lace Cardigan from Veronik Avery's Knitting Classic Style, and I finished it like 3 weeks ago.)
PLANNING: tonight, going to a wine party at my friend L's house. Tomorrow I'm going to finish cleaning my room and moving my office to the basement, plus I have some work that I'm going to try to actually do in my new office-y space. My bedroom was getting way too crowded and driving me insane, hence the move.
KNITTING: I'm knitting on several projects somewhat half-assedly. I'm not on an especial mission to finish any of them. On one set of needles, I have my first pair of socks. The first sock is done, and I'm about 3" into the cuff of the second sock (they are top-down). For bus knitting, I'm working on my second rendition of the Lace Ribbon Scarf (from last Spring's Knitty), which I'm knitting with the yarn specified in the pattern this time. And last but not least, I have a rendition of Jess's Gansey (from Interweave Knits) going. It's at a small gauge, so it's going very slowly. It's the project that is destined to go on and off the back burner for the next several months, because I have a couple of projects to knit for other people during that time. I'm hoping to start the first of those, a cardigan for my mother, sometime next week, and possibly tomorrow.
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