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Apr. 20th, 2005 10:45 amYou know the problem with cold medicine is that you can't tell if you're groggy from having a cold, or groggy from taking the medicine. As a precaution I've decided not to take anything today. The symptoms are mild enough that I can muddle through, and I don't want to add more drowsy-making stuff on top of what might still be in my system.
I know that there's non-drowsy formulas of cold medicine. I also think those only work as psychological comfort since I've never tried a one that ever made me feel like it did anything.
Work progresses on my scarf. I'm in the home stretch now, which is so weird for me. Normally I do something to screw up a project like this before it's finished, and the factor on that was high since I was using a different thread and needles than what the SnB book suggested. But no. It's looking good and more or less even. I guess we'll see if I manage to stick the dismount.
Read an article yesterday that I wish I could find again. Unfortunately I got it by following some links off of a link I found in a Google search, and now I can't remember which of the searches I did yesterday got me started, let alone how I went from that to where I ended up. Attempts to recreate it today have proven fruitless.
Anyway, I wish I could find it again because it was all about how this girl feels that she's looked down on in the knitting community because she's all "punk" with her dyed hair and black clothes and piercings. So, according to her, people don't show her proper courtesy in yarn stores, and when she goes to various knitting meetups people aren't nice to her and always assume she's a beginner knitter or whatever. Which hey, fair enough. Except she then goes on to talk about how whenever she's in public she makes sure she's working on the most complicated piece of knitting possible, so people can admire her l33t knitting skills, and how she's not some newbie putting together a scarf with garter stitch and what have you.
And at that point I was kinda like - ummm, maybe it's not so much your appearance that makes people give you the brush off as it is the fact that you act like a pretentious twat. I mean seriously - deciding what you're going to knit on the bus that day based solely on wanting to impress people you're never going to see again? Get over it.
Plus you can't exactly make a good case for people being big meanies for putting you down when in the exact same article you slam on newbies for not being as cool as you are.
All of which I'd do as a letter to the editor if I could find the article again (and if it was a recent article - no sense giving the heavy eyeroll to something that somebody's already moved past and hopefully learned from). But in the meanwhile it just amused me to see how certain behaviors are universal. In fandom you get people who look down their noses at those who don't write in the pairing/genre/fandom that they think is cool, and in knitting it's the same damn thing. Makes you think how somewhere out there there's a brain surgeon thumbing her nose at the heart surgeons, and savagely mocking them for not being as avant guarde as she is.
I know that there's non-drowsy formulas of cold medicine. I also think those only work as psychological comfort since I've never tried a one that ever made me feel like it did anything.
Work progresses on my scarf. I'm in the home stretch now, which is so weird for me. Normally I do something to screw up a project like this before it's finished, and the factor on that was high since I was using a different thread and needles than what the SnB book suggested. But no. It's looking good and more or less even. I guess we'll see if I manage to stick the dismount.
Read an article yesterday that I wish I could find again. Unfortunately I got it by following some links off of a link I found in a Google search, and now I can't remember which of the searches I did yesterday got me started, let alone how I went from that to where I ended up. Attempts to recreate it today have proven fruitless.
Anyway, I wish I could find it again because it was all about how this girl feels that she's looked down on in the knitting community because she's all "punk" with her dyed hair and black clothes and piercings. So, according to her, people don't show her proper courtesy in yarn stores, and when she goes to various knitting meetups people aren't nice to her and always assume she's a beginner knitter or whatever. Which hey, fair enough. Except she then goes on to talk about how whenever she's in public she makes sure she's working on the most complicated piece of knitting possible, so people can admire her l33t knitting skills, and how she's not some newbie putting together a scarf with garter stitch and what have you.
And at that point I was kinda like - ummm, maybe it's not so much your appearance that makes people give you the brush off as it is the fact that you act like a pretentious twat. I mean seriously - deciding what you're going to knit on the bus that day based solely on wanting to impress people you're never going to see again? Get over it.
Plus you can't exactly make a good case for people being big meanies for putting you down when in the exact same article you slam on newbies for not being as cool as you are.
All of which I'd do as a letter to the editor if I could find the article again (and if it was a recent article - no sense giving the heavy eyeroll to something that somebody's already moved past and hopefully learned from). But in the meanwhile it just amused me to see how certain behaviors are universal. In fandom you get people who look down their noses at those who don't write in the pairing/genre/fandom that they think is cool, and in knitting it's the same damn thing. Makes you think how somewhere out there there's a brain surgeon thumbing her nose at the heart surgeons, and savagely mocking them for not being as avant guarde as she is.
