Blogcoven

For someone who doesn’t like or want kids, I am surprisingly excited about the birth of my friends’ first child. Sarah is, apparently, adorable (confirmed by a source not related by blood — the opinions of parents are rarely credible). And I, after hearing the news at 3:00 am in a welcome phone call (during [...]

Is there anyone out there who’s curious about Ravelry but not on there yet? Are there any knitters/crocheters reading this who haven’t signed up? Let me know — I have invites, and I want to pass them out.

California is stereotyped as super-liberal, the home of the granola-crunching, tree-hugging hippies, and a generally safe place for people with alternate lifestyles, beliefs, and viewpoints.
I’ve done a little work trying to dispel the myth, explaining where it comes from (yes, California’s major cities are pretty hippy but there are a lot of wide open [...]

Adding further insult to crippling injury, WAG called a group meeting this afternoon. This afternoon being Memorial Day, one of the few holidays Americans get. I would have skipped it, along with the rest of my group, except I’m trying to be a good little postgrad and curry enough favo(u)r to graduate in time to [...]

…but I’m running out of words, and the last slew of words I finished off was kind of crappy.
I went to see Jonathan Coulton last night with a friend whose arm had to be mightily twisted to go. We all had a good time, from the people who knew every word of every song [...]