Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
D is for Darling Husband
His first name actually begins with D so this isn’t a faker. With two As, a C and D, I think we got the family photos out of the way.
Miracles of miracles, I have nothing on my needles right now. I cast off my olympic knitting in time for the party on [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in knitting by amy
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
SockoRama
I’m thinking about my sock pal, and she sounds a bit more fussy than me.
I don’t think I am identifying her in any way when I frame her request like this:
girly = bad
bold pink = good
teal = bad
blue = good
pastel = bad
green = good
So given that - what do I choose?
Would [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in knitting by amy
Friday, February 17th, 2006
You get to decide
Ripped off from Bitch,Ph.D.
Fill in the Blank
Everybody should read ____________.
(Feel free to pass on your interesting links in the comment threads. Discuss.)
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I’m heading off to VT for the last leg of my middle trimester, I think I have three weekends left after this one. Then its own to my final project for the spring [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in words and sounds by amy
Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Shouting at my car radio
This is a reply I posted over at radioopensource.org - a follow up to a podcast I caught last week on Feminism, and the “opt out” revolution. If you aren’t listen to podcasts yet, this is a great place to start.
One of the great things about podcasting is I can catch up [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in words and sounds by amy
Monday, February 13th, 2006
Snow Poems
Mode For Caleb has some wonderful [public domain] poems up on his blog. Wonderful choices for a day like today.
No Comments » - Posted in words and sounds by amy
Monday, February 13th, 2006
C is for Cate
C is for Cate:
My beautiful baby girl, named after both great grandmothers (my dad’s mother, her dad’s dad’s mother) one off the boat from Ireland and the other off the boat from Italy. Cate is sitting on a giant tree that fell down during a rain/wind storm a few weeks ago. It was [...]
No Comments » - Posted in non-knitting by amy
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
working out some ideas …
“Standardized tests and governmental standards are a reality, and they have value – very little of it having to do with education”
In our online discussion, Cindy, a fellow student, called me out on this, specifically “very little of it having to do with education.” I had thought about elaborating on this in the thread [...]
