Sunday, September 17, 2006
why, hello there.
The LJ feed tells me it's been 42 weeks since I updated this thing.
Um, oops?
I haven't got a really good excuse for that. Closest I have is work; I went permanent (I was temp-to-perm, remember?) in March, and just as I'd expected, as soon as I stopped having to fill out a timesheet, I started working crazy hours. 50 hour weeks have become the norm for me, and I've gone as high as 70. It's downright silly. But I still really like what I'm doing, and I'm working on a couple interesting long-term projects, and they trust me enough to send me on trips to other offices (my department supports 7 of them -- so far I've been to Bethesda, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley (Cupertino, if we're being precise)), so really I can't complain.
I've done some typically crazy things on my off time. In April, I took a week off and followed Franz Ferdinand on tour around the northeast, which was time-of-my-life amazing. (I took piles of pictures; they're here, and they'll also be in the Franz fan club magazine, which will be my first photo credit!) I also took shorter trips to Boston and Philly to see the Futureheads, and I took a day off to see San Francisco when I was there for work. I went to New Orleans on Memorial Day weekend for a site visit with the ladies of Phoenix Rising.
Umm... what else. I got my wisdom teeth out last month, which wasn't nearly as bad as I'd expected. (I'd set aside the recuperation time for finally putting the fringe on my Charlotte, and I forced myself to do it anyway even though I was well enough to go out.) I'm probably moving again in the not-too-distant future, hopefully within a stone's throw of where I am now, hopefully with the lovely Marilyn. I'm still (nearly) as single as can be. And concerts, I've got concerts.
And I've got much too little knitting to show for the past ten months. For weeks at a time, my only knitting opportunity was during my commute. I worked exclusively on my Peacock Feather shawl (I scrapped the blue alpaca, went for hot pink Zephyr instead :)) from June 'til September, working a half-row by rote every morning. I made a pair of springy, crocus-colored Badcaul socks, which now reside with my mother. I finished a red bulky "green" cabled cardigan just after the transit strike in December. My Kiri is finally blocking (and it's a good thing I stopped when I did, because it's exactly the size of my full-size bed). My new favoritest project is the Vee pullover I'm making in gorgeous green tussah silk -- Artfibers Golden Chai that I got as my San Fran souvenir. ;) I've got an eye for the short-sleeved Honorine from the new Magknits, too.
I'm finally excited about knitting again. It's a great feeling.
(One other note -- comments are essentially turned off right now. I'm gonna use an authentication service to prevent myself from getting spammed with thousands of junk comments like before, but it's not working yet. If anybody's got any tips on getting Typekey working, please shoot me an email!)
Lauren posted at 19.39 on 09.17.06
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