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knitting binge

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I’m in the throes of a hard-core knitting addiction these days. I’ve finished a scarf for my dad (a PoA Ravenclaw scarf this time, which I’m REALLY pleased with), a baby blanket for a friend, and I’m starting a hat which is also my first cabling project. I’m also spending faaaaar toooooo much time digging [...]

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Recovering (Writing Exercise #23)

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Well, the audition was horrible. To start off, I was late getting out of work and therefore late to my audition. The gal had just sent the next person in in my place. So as if I wasn’t frayed enough already, I now looked irresponsible to boot.
When I finally went it, the room seemed as [...]

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Panic (Writing Exercise #22)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Tonight I am panicking too much to write about anything other than my panic. I am re-auditioning to stay on the roster of a choral group I used to sing with about five years ago. I have been dwelling on it for six weeks or so, ever since it was scheduled. It’s been strangely draining [...]

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I really meant blog entries to be the exception to the 301 rule, not the norm. and I’m still qualifying this as exercise #12, because I haven’t been to bed yet, dammit.
This was another night of juxtaposition for me. I danced at Artopium with my troupe this evening. It was wonderful — the weather was [...]

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Domesticity (Writing Exercise #12)

Friday, October 12th, 2007

What happened to exercise 11, you ask? Well, I spent yesterday evening working on a character synopsis for the next RPG I’m playing in. She’s terribly enigmatic and not an entirely nice person. But that is part of what makes her interesting. Anyway, I didn’t see a reason to post it here, but I will [...]

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So based on the wise comment from Ginger on my previous post about waxing my legs, I decided that rather than attempt it again myself, I would defer to an expert. Going into this, I realized that I know next to nothing about professional leg waxing, so I decided it would be a good topic [...]

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Med Fest (Writing Exercise #6)

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

So I’m supposed to write my words today as well, but I am out of time and haven’t pulled an exercise together, so for now, I’m declaring that plain old blogging about my day, as long as I share a few interesting insights, should count.
The Mediterranean festival was a huge crush of people. There [...]

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Review: The Action Heroine’s Handbook

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Jenny Cruise over at Argh Ink has posted an excrutiatingly funny review of The Action Heroine’s Handbook.
Definitely read though the comments — there’s some seriously sage advice for the next time you’re saving the world.
If you could give action heroine’s everywhere one piece of wisdom, what would it be?? Comment here — I’d love to [...]

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Random Offbeat Artists

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

As most of you know, I have a soft spot for fairies and cartoon pinups. Don’t ask me why.
In a conversation with a coworker a looong while back, he clued me in to some new artists that I wanted to post here before I forget all about them:
Strangeling: The Art of Jasmine Beckett-Griffith — [...]

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Color Clue

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Psst … curious about where I got the complementary color scheme for that oh-so-lovely announcement up there? I found it on kuler, the Adobe color theme tool. I highly recommend it. Pre-fab color schemes by people far more talented at that sort of thing. Yay!!

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