Archive | October, 2008

fixing the ugly

So, it is Halloween.  And I am not out celebrating, instead I stayed home to pass out Halloween candy and catch up on some designing.  (I have some changes to make to my last few class projects & then I am going to get some jewelery made for my web design project) I decided I [...]

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Real World: Chi-town.

So this is life.  A full time job that has no relevance to who I am or where I want to be (other than the miniscule amount of French I use once a week), a half-time course load that keeps me out of the house til 10:30 four nights a week and a complete lack [...]

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Knitting & a quest.

I am a nerd, I admit it.  The first analysis I read of the last debate was one on word counts and a comparison of the styles of speaking of the candidates based purely on their choices of words.  It was way more interesting than the rest of the political commentary that was out there.  [...]

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YarnCon 2008

I went to YarnCon.  And it was fantastic, except for the atm eating my cousin’s debit card and me dropping $28 worth of yarn somewhere.  But overall, it was pretty fantastic. I bought a wee bit of yarn.  A bit of banana silk… and a bit of merino… I was looking for alternative fibers, but [...]

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