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evannichols! I hope that you had a splendid day and that you thoroughly enjoy the holiday weekend.
To my kindred spirit and dear friendpersephone100, I know you're not on LJ much at all these days, and I'll sing happy birthday to you on the phone tomorrow. I definitely plan on visiting you in person again this summer!!
Well, I'm only a few inches short of finishing sleeve #1. I was looking at somebody else's picture of their cardigan when creeping sense of "oh shit" came over me. Sure enough, I looked at my sweater and I realized that while knitting from the armhole down to the wrist, I had been following my chart of the pattern from the bottom up— which is what I was supposed to do for the body of the sweater, knitted from the bottom hem up to the neck. So my flowers are pointed downwards. Surprisingly for me, I wasn't overcome by a wave of anxiety, or nausea. The truth is, the pattern is so complicated and the colors so overwhelming that unless you're a knitter and really examining it, you wouldn't know that the design was supposed to go the other way. I did debate undoing the sleeve, re-balling the yarn and starting over, but after getting my mother's opinion (and she's also a knitter), I've decided to leave the sleeve as is. It will make the sweater even more unique.
I went on a bit of a roller derby movie kick after last Sunday's bout. I watched Brutal Beauty yesterday, and then again tonight with my parents, enjoying it just as much the second time. It's a documentary about the Portland-based Rose City Rollers, and my heart broke a little bit watching it as I'd meant to go see them while I lived there. And from my last post, we know that I've had Oregon on my mind a lot of late.
I'm volunteering again for Skyline Literacy, though back on '08 I did one on one tutoring. Now they have way more people needing help with English as a second language than there are tutors for one on one sessions (they could never have enough, I suspect!), so there are classes with curricula. They don't have those classes in the summer, but they do offer informal conversation classes for people to practice their English. Apparently I'll be taking on an intermediate class, and since I have been thinking seriously about getting certified to teach English overseas, this seems like a compelling path.
Oh, and Pema Chödrön's works continue to rock my world. I checked out When Things Fall Apart from the library and will be participating in a chapter discussion over at the WFS forum. Today I had this phrase come to me, after some soul-searching: The time to live fearlessly is NOW. I'm going to try and really take that to heart and nurture the fabulousness I do have that I've been covering up for some time.
… and I may just put out a request for writing prompts. It's been far, far too long.
evannichols! I hope that you had a splendid day and that you thoroughly enjoy the holiday weekend. To my kindred spirit and dear friend
persephone100, I know you're not on LJ much at all these days, and I'll sing happy birthday to you on the phone tomorrow. I definitely plan on visiting you in person again this summer!!Well, I'm only a few inches short of finishing sleeve #1. I was looking at somebody else's picture of their cardigan when creeping sense of "oh shit" came over me. Sure enough, I looked at my sweater and I realized that while knitting from the armhole down to the wrist, I had been following my chart of the pattern from the bottom up— which is what I was supposed to do for the body of the sweater, knitted from the bottom hem up to the neck. So my flowers are pointed downwards. Surprisingly for me, I wasn't overcome by a wave of anxiety, or nausea. The truth is, the pattern is so complicated and the colors so overwhelming that unless you're a knitter and really examining it, you wouldn't know that the design was supposed to go the other way. I did debate undoing the sleeve, re-balling the yarn and starting over, but after getting my mother's opinion (and she's also a knitter), I've decided to leave the sleeve as is. It will make the sweater even more unique.
I went on a bit of a roller derby movie kick after last Sunday's bout. I watched Brutal Beauty yesterday, and then again tonight with my parents, enjoying it just as much the second time. It's a documentary about the Portland-based Rose City Rollers, and my heart broke a little bit watching it as I'd meant to go see them while I lived there. And from my last post, we know that I've had Oregon on my mind a lot of late.
I'm volunteering again for Skyline Literacy, though back on '08 I did one on one tutoring. Now they have way more people needing help with English as a second language than there are tutors for one on one sessions (they could never have enough, I suspect!), so there are classes with curricula. They don't have those classes in the summer, but they do offer informal conversation classes for people to practice their English. Apparently I'll be taking on an intermediate class, and since I have been thinking seriously about getting certified to teach English overseas, this seems like a compelling path.
Oh, and Pema Chödrön's works continue to rock my world. I checked out When Things Fall Apart from the library and will be participating in a chapter discussion over at the WFS forum. Today I had this phrase come to me, after some soul-searching: The time to live fearlessly is NOW. I'm going to try and really take that to heart and nurture the fabulousness I do have that I've been covering up for some time.
… and I may just put out a request for writing prompts. It's been far, far too long.