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Monthly Archives: January 2006

Storytelling

Just got back from my first fiction workshop session of the semester. It’s only been one day, and from the fine amount of hubris displayed in our shortened session, I already get the strong sense that a major Clash of EgosĀ® is headed our way. It may even happen as early as next class period. [...]

Knitting Olympics 2006: Double Pointed Needles of Pain

A week or so ago, I came across a link to the Knitting Olympics and thought I’d give it a shot. With cheerful bravado, I signed up to do these gorgeous opera gloves, never mind the fact that I’d yet to ever knit with double pointed needles, let alone knit a pair of gloves in [...]

Speaking of abortion…

…it is Blog for Choice day today! Like I mentioned earlier, I’m not usually into writing about politics in my blog (there are enough self-proclaimed pundits out there polluting the ‘blogosphere’), but this is a really important issue, especially now with Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court. For citizens of a country supposedly founded on [...]

On Thumb Wrestling and Abortion

The boy and I emerged from our self-imposed anti-social hermitage to attend a party last night. It was a surprise going-away party for this girl that we sort-of-kind-of know, and we almost weren’t going to go, as we only ‘sort-of-kind-of know’ her, and it’s much easier to be lazy and stay indoors than to drive [...]