First, the good news: The issue of Persuasions On-Line in which I'm published has gone live. It's an entire issue about the 2005 big screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Can you handle it?
The bad news: I've been suffering from writer's block. Sigh.
Running page count: 10
Best sentence of the day: "The prostitutes become perverse midwives of a monstrous affair."
Today I
a) made stew
b) replaced one 60W incandescent light bulb with a brighter but more energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulb
c) wrote 2.5 pages
Running page count: 8
Phrase written that I never thought I'd use anywhere, much less in a dissertation: "initiation orgy"
Dear Knitting Gods and Goddesses,
Please do not let my next knitting project end up here.
Many thanks,
Me.
Between the "Optimash Prime" Mr. Potato Head and the CBC Radio-Canada Messenger bag, Natalie (of DarNat) had a pretty geeky birthday. And I did nothing to help the matter:
Natalie is sporting a Jayne Hat that I knit for her (when she first asked me about it, I thought she meant the mob cap that Jane Austen is usually depicted as wearing. I'm really glad she didn't want one of those).
The pattern was a combination of what I found here and here, modified for lighter weight yarn and corresponding needles (5.5 mm or size 9). I knit two: one for Nat's sister (the original impetus for the project) and one for Nat, when I realized that I had enough yarn to knit two hats and that Nat's birthday was coming up.
The next knitting project is (sadly?) Star Wars related and will likely involve designing for the first time. The learning curve? It is exponential, my friends.
This is the review I should have written, instead of my overlong, jetlagged rant of a snap judgement.
Incidentally, I stand by my initial assessment of the ending. It's not bittersweet; rather, it's inaccurate and illogical.
Went to the Michaels website tonight to check on their store hours (I have coupons!) and saw this:
"Imaginate"? Seriously? Did someone actually get paid for coming up that? And did someone actually trademark it?
There is nothing that "Imaginate" accomplishes that "Imagine" does not. "Wait," you say, "maybe it's a mash-up of the words imagine and create?" If it is, "-ate" is not an unusual enough set of letters to immediately make someone think of "create".
And to add insult to injury, I couldn't find the hours of operation. Nice website, Michaels. (p.s. shouldn't there be an apostrophe in there somewhere?)
I feel like I'm currently writing around my topic rather than about my topic. Will try to fix that tomorrow when I'm way less tired.
Running page count: 4
Words added to spellcheck dictionary: Harlowe
Mosquitoes smited: 2 (one small, one gigantic!)
Books attempted to put on hold only to be informed that I already took it out: 1
