.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2008 08 30 (snap snap snap your fingers), originally uploaded by octette_stars. jozelle and i spent the evening at rivendell, and it was really nice. today we woke up early, went [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2008 08 29 (ramshackle: appearing ready to collapse), originally uploaded by octette_stars. i am knitting, for only the second time, with two different colors. the first time went really well, but [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2008 08 28, originally uploaded by octette_stars. this is steph’s kitten ringo, uncharacteristically subdued. there was a huge mixup at the airport, and jozelle and i ended up waiting for each [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
my hair is long enough now that it pulls back into a french braid, and also that it sweeps across my face like i’m scene. this picture is actually from really early in the morning when i couldn’t sleep. i can tell that i’m going to be up all night again. i had a really [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2008 08 26 (the land of hope for those who toil), originally uploaded by octette_stars. today i had a phone interview for a job with a catholic publisher a little south [...]
the other night i had a really bad anxiety dream about knitting this particular pattern (clapotis, a scarf). i kept thinking about it yesterday. finally, i pulled out this purple yarn that i’d been saving to use for sleeves for a sweater, and started knitting it up. it took four tries just to get through [...]
i spent most of today working on a freelance project, proofreading a novel. i don’t know whether the copyeditor was slacking or the typesetter needs to be fired, but there were so many punctuation errors in the book that i used more than half of a red pencil fixing them. i also drank a whole [...]
Saturday, August 23, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2008 08 23 (don’t just stand there — say nice things to me), originally uploaded by octette_stars. this is the beginning of the pattern for my second hourglass sweater. i am [...]
by the time i had to meet annie for supper, i felt almost human. i stopped and bought 12g earrings to put in later, and i think i am going to buy a kit on the internet to do the rest of it. idek, i just want to stretch my fucking ears, i don’t want [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2008 08 21, originally uploaded by octette_stars. sick all day. i did not have a chance to knit anything, because i couldn’t keep my eyes open long enough to try. this [...]