“Squealed” sure is a funny looking word.
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
Between June 21st and September 21st, Lady Grey* and I drove 4695 kilometers. That’s just about the distance between my home in Brooklyn and my house in Vancouver, though that’s not the road I drove this summer.
I reset the odometer for fall…we’ll see what I get up go driving across the street and back again to park and unpark, cruising the length of the BQE, and heading upstate and to Connecticut for various adventures.
I’m constantly making lists and then forgetting to keep them up. Its nice to have something count for me.
*Lady Grey is my little car, an ancestor of X-woman Jean Grey, the Queen who ruled England for a mere 9 days, and a kind of tea.
I skipped a class last week, which meant that I got to leave my house at 10 rather than 8 (to make it to Columbia for my 11am). It was so nice to walk to the subway when all the shops were actually open, seeing folks ambling about the neighbourhood. I stopped to get coffee and a bagel at the place that I like, and the gal behind the counter knew everyone’s name and their order–I think that this is really starting to feel like my ‘hood.
And then this morning it was really sunny and chilly as I biked over the Williamsburg bridge listening to Herman Dune. Small pleasures.
Assorted news:
Kurt and I got a kitten. Her name is now Ossington and we’re calling her Ozzy. I have become That Person who photographs her cat:
Lindsey came out to New York and she and I and Hollis went up to Rhinebeck for the New York State Sheep and Yarn Festival. We bought sock yarn and watched a knitting-with-chopsticks contest and pet some sheep and went to a Ravelry party. We camped near Pougkeepsie. I’m doing a pretty good job of exploring New York State and environs, I think. A better job than I ever did of understanding Ontario.
Here’s Hollis, folding some yarn:
(you can see Hollis in the first photo here, at the epicentre of yarn-and-blog fame.)
And here’s Lindsey on the Poughkeepsie riverfront:
- ###### ##### grew up in North Vancouver and is now a stalwart resident of East Vancouver. He grumbles while working, but actually has an earnest joy for most things that betray the fundamental creativity of human beings. He likes problems solving, beautiful code, index cards, bicycles, things printed on actual paper and most things made before 1978. As a programmer, ###### prefers to make things web-facing, because that’s where most of the interesting stuff is happening today. He firmly believes that most things can and should be automated, but also believes that a good user interface is essential to creating a workflow that keeps people happy. His current favourite working environments are Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Linux and MySql.
- ##### ##### is from Vancouver and/or Toronto, depending on when you ask her. She likes public space, mason jars, pyrex bowls, country music, Canadian spelling, and subverting post-industrial capitalism through baking bread, growing vegetables, and knitting at meetings. She moved to Brooklyn with 3 typewriters, 2 bicycles, one sewing machine, and a box of spatulas. Someday she would like to be known as the City Councilor who put a garden on the roof of city hall. She is rather fond of lists.
Writing bios is a under appreciated art form and a fun game. Sum yourself up or someone up and I’ll guess who you are!
This is a real course in the Sociology department, but it totally seems like a joke:
SOCI G9080 - Contextualization of Contexts
3 pts. Prerequisites: None. Structure embeds with process and events with networks among observings and signalings, as variously perceived and constituted in levels and extensions. The central issue is contextualizing contexts wherein social is interdigitated with cultural, narrative with situational.
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