Archive for September, 2005
Friday, September 30th, 2005
Friday Reading List
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I absolutely love that I can go into my local little library and take this this book home for two weeks. I won’t say much to ruin the suspense, but it makes those “i never thought it would happen to me” letters to Penthouse look like Saturday morning cartoons. [...]
20 Comments » - Posted in words and sounds by amy
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Welcome to Movable Type 3.2
12 hours to upgrade? Not quite as easy as Movable Type promised. The problem wasn’t with the installation instructions, it was with permissions for my webserver’s folder. Oh, and I had an extra “d” tucked into a word.
Who else is making Annie Modsett’s Corset? What yarns did you use? Although I [...]
23 Comments » - Posted in more knitting by amy
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
For Sandy
15 Comments » - Posted in more knitting by amy
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
mommychic & women’s studies
It is almost time! Elizabeth over at CurlyPurls will be hosting a MommyChic along, watch this space for details.
bitchin’ house
When I was in college, my womenfriends and I were completely overtaken with women’s studies and gender theory. We founded The Women’s Issues Theme House, we sponsered speakers and designed our senior thesis around [...]
32 Comments » - Posted in knitting by amy
Thursday, September 15th, 2005
A little Grad School Trick
When I was in graduate school the first time, a good friend let me in on a little secret - always keep a pleasure book going, allow yourself a chapter or two in between other, assigned reading and research - otherwise you’ll forget you actually like reading for enjoyment and relaxation and it [...]
16 Comments » - Posted in words and sounds by amy
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
Back to school
Last week, I pulled out my finishing basket and got to work catching up on some seams. First up, my Blue Jazz shirt. The greatly modified pattern is from Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Knitter’s Almanac.. What modifications? Well a couple. I used an I-Cord border for the bottom of the sweater, in [...]
