In which I cook Indian, freak the fuck OUT — omg! you have no idea! DUDES! — on a virtual world, and talk about the perils of knitting. In the process I manage to put a rather astonishing number of links into a single entry. (Mouse over ’em for snap-ups!)
This morning (and I use ‘morning’ loosely here; you should cleverly interpret it to mean ‘early afternoonish’), I got up and immediately cooked a feast!
Chana masala. Egg curry. Long-grain Basmati rice. Papadums. Yogurt, chutney. So good! OMFG, so good. We all ate heartily.
Then I got back on the laptop and booted into Second Life. (I was up until five-thirty this morning wandering around in there.) It’s so, so fun. I want to move to San Francisco and work at Linden Labs, like, toute suite, swear to God. And I don’t even like living in SF!
This world, this Second Life, it’s everything sci-fi ever taught me to want! It’s virtual. It’s wonderful. It’s a/the progenitor of the metaverse, and that’s HOT. Sweden is building an embassy there. You can fly in there! How did I not know about this until now? Has my entire head been up my arse since 2003? It’s practically better than knitting!
Oh, and on the subject of knitting, I’ve divided my sweater for the front and back around the armholes. This means I’m actually lurking up on being halfway done with it! Yay!
The bad news is that the bamboo circulars I bought (from Knit Picks, along with the yarn and pattern), which were supposed to be size 10, are not in fact size 10 at all — they’re more like 9.75s. This means I have to knit the entire sweater with them, including the collar and the arms (which will be a pain in the arse), or my gauge will change noticeably. Luckily the circulars in question are long enough that I can use the magic loop method, but it still kinda pisses me off. I guess it’s taught me to use my needle gauge to check new needles for accuracy of size upon purchase, at least. Pah.
In other news, I submitted a resume to Robert Half Technology last week — for a tech position they’d listed on Monster.com as “Web Administrator’s Dream Job” — and they called me back and left a message Friday night! I’ll be calling them first thing Monday morning.
I suppose moving to Cedar Rapids wouldn’t be too terribly bad; it’s only an hour and a quarter from Fairfield so I could still come see my friends on weekends, and it’s almost practically a city (by Iowa standards, at least) so if I lived there I might could find myself a working band and have access to quasi-decent restaurants!
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You see? You see? You are so totally going to land your dream job. And you see? You see? I am so totally *not* nuts for bugging you to do THAT AMMA STUFF *now* instead of later (pretty please!).
luv you,
notty old nag
OMG, you’re nagging me on my web site! (*chuckle* I’ll try to get it done here soon, dearheart.) -m
oh, i have all bits and sundry body parts crossed for you to get that job!! i’ll send some reiki energy to you around that too. i’ve been doing too many crosswords to work on knitting. i really have to finish up boy’s mittens before spring.
Oh, thank you, hon. Love the reiki. And if only we wanted to do winter-item knitting in the summer instead of the winter, so the stuff would be FINISHED on time! -m
hot dang that would be a good situation – a job! (hehe)
keeping my needles crossed for you! (what else am i ever going to do with them?) but seriously, i’m sending you good thoughts today. as compared to other days, when i generally do not send any thoughts. just because i’m selfish like that.
exit stage left.
*giggle!* -m
Er, hon, that’s what swatching is for. I mean are you getting the gauge in the pattern? That’s what’s important. Sheesh. What’s important is, will it fit?
My gauge is fine and the sweater’ll fit. Yay! The point is that the needles aren’t the size they’re supposed to be, and that sucks, because I can’t use any other needles on this project. -m
Sure you can, just do a gauge. Needle and yarn given in a pattern don’t always pan out for an individual knitter. I am certain you will be able to use them again. I know you are creative enough to make it work (as Tim Gunn would say!)
Knitting a swatch with this same yarn and needles of a different size will result in a different gauge. I have no other needles of the exact same size because these needles are not the size they’re supposed to be (they’re not a real size at all); therefore, I cannot use any other needles on this project and maintain my current gauge. Am I making any sense at all?! *gah!* -m