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 Egos® is headed our way. It may even happen as early as next class period. I’ll be sure to keep the Internet posted.

The prof wants us to write for an hour each day. I don’t know if she realizes that most of us have got shit to do, but that’s great and optimistic of her. I think I will try to write something every day, though I don’t know about devoting an entire hour. I’ll post stuff on the blog, mostly ditties worked from writing prompts. I usually hate writing prompts, mostly because I suck at doing anything original with them, but I’ll use them a lot at first because I have no ideas and it is good training. If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to comment. You can be as mean and snarky as you please, as long as it is constructive, but I’d be much happier if you played nice

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 my life.

Days later, after attempting a more modest glove pattern, dropping needles left and right into the nooks and crannies of my couch cushions, ferociously jabbing at the cat (who thought the whole setup was a new toy I had bought for him, thank you, Quarkie), and finally throwing down the stupid needles somewhere in a dark corner of my bedroom, my name appears on the athletes list.

So - hi knitters! I guess I’d sort of been hoping that the yarn harlot would have overlooked me in the flood of submissions she got for the KO, bless her heart, but no such luck. No problem. I will march home after work, pick up that spindly hedgehog, and try again. Like it or not, it will fuse with the delicate threads of sport weight violet yarn and become a beautiful glove. And then somehow it will spawn its own sister glove, and then maybe, just maybe, the opera glove challenge won’t be quite so bad.