I would like to request that you stop posting about Rhinebeck. Those of us who were unable to attend, due to reduced circumstances or gruelling work schedules, are tired of hearing about how much fun you had, the great food you ate, the fantastic yarn you bought, the famous people you met, the perfect sweater weather, the great Ravelry party, and the general awesomeness of Rhinebeck. It is heartless for you to continue to rub it in the faces of we non-Rhinebeckers. Furthermore, the fact that some of you have acknowledged that you are aware that we non-Rhinebeckers may not want to hear about it, and have gone on to post about Rhinebeck anyway, indicates a level of callousness that I am shocked to find among knitters. What are you, sadists or something? Do you not see how you are torturing us? So, I am asking you to immediately cease and desist discussing Rhinebeck on your blogs.
(um, except for the photos of the yummy yarn and fibre...those can stay.)
Thank you,
The Management (of this blog)
October 27, 2008
October 24, 2008
The Basics
I suppose the first order of business is to introduce myself, so here is some pertinent information about me.
I live in Montreal with my partner of five years. I am not a native but I consider this city my spiritual home. My love for Montreal and it's inhabitants will likely figure prominently in my entries here.
I am currently unemployed, despite (or maybe because of) my three (yes, three) graduate degrees - a Master's in science and two law degrees (common and civil law). This may make me the most over-educated jobless bum you know. Since graduating in April I have been exploring alternatives to traditional legal practice, which mostly involves a lot of sitting on my butt watching TV and and surfing the Internet. I am doing some freelance work as a medical writer and copy editor, which I'm hoping will help keep the wolves at bay for a little while - after six years of graduate school, I am beyond broke. My secret desire is to be a 'real' writer (still not sure what exactly that means), but I haven't written anything other than academic papers in six years, so I am using this blog as practice (that way I can tell myself it doesn't matter if/when nobody reads this - it's all about the process).
I knit. I knit quite a lot, actually (see above re. unemployed), but this does not mean that I churn out vast swathes of knitted objects, since I am pretty slow. I started knitting in my last year of law school, as a relaxation technique; however, due to my slightly obsessive nature and a bad case of last-year-of-school ennui, it soon became more of a replacement for, rather than distraction from, my schoolwork :). Now I do it mainly to keep myself occupied in between fruitless internet job searches. I also spend way too much time window-shopping for yarn online and reading other people's blogs. This blog, then, is the natural progression from passive to active participant in the online community.
I am a feminist, and a pretty hardcore one at that. This conflicts rather heavily with my current day-to-day life, which more closely resembles that of a housewife. I try not to dwell on this contradiction too much - it makes my head hurt.
Teal and aubergine are my favourite colours (ooh, two Britishisms in a row!). Aubergines (um, eggplants, for those who aren't up on their snooty colour names) are also one of my favourite things to eat, so it has double significance (teal does not - the only other meaning I can think of for teal has to do with ducks, and I am not fond of ducks. AT ALL.). I realized after naming the blog that I had kind of ripped off Limenviolet - sorry ladies, it was unintentional (though I have been listening to their podcast a lot lately, so who knows what was happening in my subconscious).
So these are the basics - more details will doubtless be revealed in time (if I can motivate myself to keep this up, that is!).
I live in Montreal with my partner of five years. I am not a native but I consider this city my spiritual home. My love for Montreal and it's inhabitants will likely figure prominently in my entries here.
I am currently unemployed, despite (or maybe because of) my three (yes, three) graduate degrees - a Master's in science and two law degrees (common and civil law). This may make me the most over-educated jobless bum you know. Since graduating in April I have been exploring alternatives to traditional legal practice, which mostly involves a lot of sitting on my butt watching TV and and surfing the Internet. I am doing some freelance work as a medical writer and copy editor, which I'm hoping will help keep the wolves at bay for a little while - after six years of graduate school, I am beyond broke. My secret desire is to be a 'real' writer (still not sure what exactly that means), but I haven't written anything other than academic papers in six years, so I am using this blog as practice (that way I can tell myself it doesn't matter if/when nobody reads this - it's all about the process).
I knit. I knit quite a lot, actually (see above re. unemployed), but this does not mean that I churn out vast swathes of knitted objects, since I am pretty slow. I started knitting in my last year of law school, as a relaxation technique; however, due to my slightly obsessive nature and a bad case of last-year-of-school ennui, it soon became more of a replacement for, rather than distraction from, my schoolwork :). Now I do it mainly to keep myself occupied in between fruitless internet job searches. I also spend way too much time window-shopping for yarn online and reading other people's blogs. This blog, then, is the natural progression from passive to active participant in the online community.
I am a feminist, and a pretty hardcore one at that. This conflicts rather heavily with my current day-to-day life, which more closely resembles that of a housewife. I try not to dwell on this contradiction too much - it makes my head hurt.
Teal and aubergine are my favourite colours (ooh, two Britishisms in a row!). Aubergines (um, eggplants, for those who aren't up on their snooty colour names) are also one of my favourite things to eat, so it has double significance (teal does not - the only other meaning I can think of for teal has to do with ducks, and I am not fond of ducks. AT ALL.). I realized after naming the blog that I had kind of ripped off Limenviolet - sorry ladies, it was unintentional (though I have been listening to their podcast a lot lately, so who knows what was happening in my subconscious).
So these are the basics - more details will doubtless be revealed in time (if I can motivate myself to keep this up, that is!).
October 23, 2008
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