Work was so annoying today with the seeming constant OMG-drop-everything-this-is-important! Stop-what-you’re-doing-and-look-at-this! OK-stop-that-now do this! I guess I have to adopt an attitude towards interruptions like I do towards problems. Start documenting them and proving that they’re never going to go away. In fact, recently Burkeman tried to convince me that there’s no such thing as an interruption. How quickly we forget.
Weavy Stuff
One week till weaving school! In the meantime, playing with this little toy.
Book Corner 2022.2
by Lauren Groff
I really didn’t enjoy this. Can’t help but compare it to The Corner That Held Them. I see I came off as a bit negative on Corner, but at least it felt very realistic. This one is fakery. And I wasn’t expecting quite so much lesbianism. No one appreciates strong, central female characters more than I do; and I can respect what the author must have been trying to do by including not one single male character at all. But come on. Where were the priests in all this? Who was saying mass before Marie blasphemously took over? Weren’t the male leaders of the Church giving her a hard time?
Book Corner 2022.1
by Mary Karr
I cannot rate this highly, because I spent almost all of my time reading it in a state of either disgust, or frustration, and because I was never eager to get back to it. It has an excellent ending; but the ending doesn’t make it all OK. The world Mary Karr describes is ugly; and she chooses to render some of the most horrifying elements of it in unshakeable, graphic detail.
Check Warping
I motivated myself a little bit this afternoon to start a warp to practice checks, which is what my next project at Weaving School is supposed to be. What the heck was the cutesy name for it again? Oh yeah, cherryderry.
2022
I will go out on a limb with my prediction here: 2022 will have both good things and bad things happen.
Below, my Wintery Colored Fair Isle Hat very much in the (over-) planning stages. Only the one color dyed so far. On the fence about whether to squeeze out another color this afternoon. Dyeing is quick, but the cleanup is a pain.
2021 Roundup
On one side of the ledger:
- TechLab!
- Vaccination!!
- Finding my bio-father!!!
On the other side:
- In-laws Declining Badly
- Dead Goats
- To take a bit from Pee-wee Herman (who was actually very funny & creative): “It’s not like she expected the pandemic to instantly, magically end with the vaccines… but then it DOESN’T instantly, magically end with the vaccines!!!”
There will always be entries on both sides of the ledger.
Book Corner Roundup 2021
61 books read. 2 more than last year which was 2 more than the year before.
Best non-fiction 2021:
Best fiction 2021 – came out in 2020 but I got to it in 2021:
Missing
I miss cooking.
Stone Me Just Like Going Home
Tomorrow is our last full day here! Between flight cancellations & weather, I am putting no hope whatsoever into actually getting home on schedule. But tomorrow will still be a milestone, at least: our last scheduled full day here.
