Mary reminded me that I hadn’t included an English translation of the previous post. Clever me, eh? Honestly, I hadn’t expected my English-speaking readers to worry about it (rather short-sighted of me)—in part because it wouldn’t apply to most of them—and I intended to post about it much more fully after I unbury myself from [...]
Yesterday, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (aka Yarn Harlot) posted a small rant about public perception of knitters and knitterly writers. If you’ve not seen it, you should. It’s here: http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2007/02/16/represent.html. I remember the universal shock waves that went ’round the ‘net in January when Blue Moon‘s old bank decided that the Sock Club must have been a [...]
I realized the other day that it’s been almost two weeks since I’ve posted, and it’s time to catch up. Things have been busy with a lot of cleanup from last fall and some startup for this term, but there’s been some fallout, too. General Academics/Teaching I had an interesting conversation with a teacher a [...]
and am slowly digging myself out of a self-imposed hole. When I say “slowly,” I do mean just that. Final surfacing won’t happen for another week or ten days. In other words, if I owe you mail, keep the faith; I’ll catch up shortly. (I believe in the power of positive thinking; don’t disillusion me.) [...]
This has been my Fall term kickoff week. I’ve had one lecture with the local university; other lectures, exams, and coursework are crowding the horizon but for now I have a couple weeks’ break with them. It was also the first week of the LIT 207 class with SNHU. I’ve done a fair amount with [...]
