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January 21, 2005
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Here's the thing~ its hard to write a proper Knit-A-Log without an internet connection or a computer of one's own, or a camera for that matter. Lots of knitting has been going on, from my temporary digs, which I am kind of digging, in a way, at the Pink Palace. Perhaps its even more suited to knitting since time has apparently forgotten it. In general lately I have had a sense of being stranded in a type of suspended animation. Its been growing steadily. I wonder at what point my heart rate will slow, my breathing become shallow, and I will succumb. Will they find me on my back in the swimming pool, not dead, but looking like the painted Ophelia, hands folded serenely over my mid-section, mouth slightly open?
Well. There are advantages to being a semi-homeless knitting nun. For one thing I really can take an afternoon swim, and not in the Chicago River either. The place where I am living, with my mother, was built in the 1930s. Its the color of Pepto-Bismol and has an outrageous crystal chandelier in the front entrance. There are doormen and a few too many elevators, as during the construction the Depression hit and so they made it a little shorter than originally planned. At some point it went terribly out of style, and plus the neighborhood went all to hell, and thus it was cheap to buy there. Now its coming up and there is a $tarbux and everything, so people are moving in again. Nobody swims but there is this crazy pool and there is a wall of windows out onto the garden and the lakefront beyond. There is no lifeguard and there is this old radio and so you can rock out and watch the snow from the middle of the deep end on your back to Led Zeppelin. Last night this is what I did, as the sun went down and the sky turned grey to lavender and the room went dim.
At that point I could not deny that I live a charmed life.
Other times I'm not so sure.
In any event, the Floof is done! I wish I could post a photo but I am without a camera for the moment.
Trust me when I say it is one glamorous garment.
The huge Noro/Manos blanket is almost completed as well. It has grown almost unwieldy, and when I sit to work on it I can drape it down my lap and onto the floor. The colors are outrageous, almost blinding in their deliciousness. Someday, someday I will post photos!
I've also completed two legs for a new animal, I'm thinking monkey, but maybe elephant or cat. The legs would make splendid knee socks for Marcel but he won't stand for it. He just wants to eat em. Dogs.
Posted by pippypippy at January 21, 2005 04:11 PM
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hello, she ordered meatloaf at TomBoy I had pork tenderloin. A good time was had by all. I look forward to the next visit.
Posted by: michael at January 22, 2005 09:02 AM
stay warm in the cold-landz. the sheltered buttresses of the pinque palace should do well to keep the breeze away, except when you round the corner on sheridan and ol' man winter bites you on the noggin.
keep knitting. i hope you are not locked in that little tiny room next door. oh the humanity!
your plight is not sane, sweet ophelia...
yours,
db
Posted by: db at January 29, 2005 07:24 PM