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Your job sounds fascinating. And I am sad for you that you could not visit the Oslo yarn store.

Oslo yarn store does sound A++++

Is it wrong that the general election thread has me laughing so hard that I'm crying? I honestly don't know what to make of all this, but wow is is totally entertaining.

Erratic/Clueless '08!

The second part of that interview, where Palin "expands" on her "I can see Russia from my house" FP credentials, was quite beautiful. It's not making a damned bit of difference though is it?

Well, it is making me want to keep her around for many interviews (but no place in policy-making)...

Otherwise, she's probably a wash, at least until the v.p. debate. (Assuming they let her out to debate)

when i was in alaska i met a bunch of errr ummmm overfriendly(?) russians. maybe shes on to something

She will date them all and thereby protect the rest of the women in the US from their roamin' hands or whatever.

i lived in alaska for a year and a half and never met any russians.

met a lot of dudes like todd palin, though

rrrrrggghhh at people referring to Palins accent as "minnesotan"

i said to pp the othr night 'what the hell is that accent???". im pretty sure its canada raping the midwest.

(and keeping the resulting embryo, of course)

(between two intact embryos)

hhhahahhahahahahahahah

Thank you, that gave me some much-needed roffling!

when will you ultimately be done with overwhelmingness, sr-c?

lol i opened my first american bank account last saturday at WaMu and now it is bust

wamu's bank in chelsea nyc was decked out like a coffee bar. fucken deserved to fail.

overwhelmingness (i.e. this class) ends the week before Thanksgiving. We start another class after that, but fewer credits spread out over more time... plus it's ob/sexuality, so easier material than constant pathophysiology.

I can't sort out the politics of any of the bailout stuff... honestly I'm just WTF about it. Major point to me is still that our "MBA President" led us to this.

morning, Sara.

So I have been thrown out by the customer (we appreciate your work personally but the fact you haven't been able to get this working in 2 years we're off to buy something else). So now good things are happening. Have bought some yarn at the awesome yarn store, I'm waitlisted for the earlier flight home and have 3 hours free boozing in the lounge if I don't succeed in that and my sister's birthday party this evening in a club with a bowling alley and awesome cocktails. (I can trust my sister on this one as she has the same cocktail trinity as me, manhattan, old fashioned, negroni).

What did you folks do in Alaska? (and what kind of yarn did they have?)

wow, ed, what a trip!
so your bosses do not depend on you to save the account when this happens? that's kind of awesome.
i am gonna drink the hell out of a negroni at some point this weekend i think!

My bosses kind of sent me on a suicide mission they knew the dealer was angling to sell something new in there. So I am back in the lounge and the prognosis on me getting on the early flight is not good and they do not have complete negroni fixings in here.

Also boingo is being severely flakey and kicking me out of the internet repeatedly.

susan i just went to check it out in dec 2003. i wanted to go to fairbanks but couldnt quite afford it so i went to anchorage for a week instead. didnt see any yarn. i spent my time horseriding, walking through a graveyard where the headstones were just peeking about the snow, looking at weirdass malls, walking the streets and laughing and the women jogging down the street at 8am in high heels while its was god knows what below freezing and as dark as midnight. oh and a aurora borealis sightings from my midnight flight out to new orleans. no moose though. only tracks.

hai sister's wedding tomorrow. gotta write a toast. any interesting suggestions for short/sweet/not-smarmy poetry to use? plz, plz?

Do Not Go Gently Into That Night?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO A DAY OFF TODAYYYYYYYYYYYYY

jesus fucking christ i am so happy.

AND 26 of the 30 copies of our forthcoming chapbook have been pre-ordered!!!

wau awesome

That is awesome, it nice when things come together.

Yarn, I got some scratchy norwegian 3 ply in traditional (red white an dark blue) colours to make this with, but now I'm not sure if I want to pay $40 for the pattern book.

yeah now i just have to MAKE THEM. got all the paper and tools and stuff, have done about 8 mock-ups... but i'm secretly freaking out! ppl are paying for these and i want them to look great! or no one will ever buy my stuff again and i will have to work at my shitty poo job forever!

Ed, what are you planning to make?

Enjoy the day off, J. :)

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/protest-cap-norway

with the instarsia and everything? Nice.

RR has a day off. I have to prep for all-day class tomorrow. Am seriously thinking about not reading the textbook anymore and just studying prof's power points.

BUT - RR - enjoy your day! :)

PS - Ed, Susan - are you both knitters? I didn't realize we could have an ITR knitting thing. I have been working on the same project for 2 years... I blame school.

Ma nu jawb is hurting my brian. Talk of yarn is zennifying. I could totally fall for a girl who would lavish me with knitwear.

Indeed, but you are likely to get lots of girls if you can lavish them with knitwear.

i remember my BFF decided to take up knitting and the goal for her first project was a scarf. this dragged on for so long that she ended up sewing the sides together and making one legwarmer.

My job is quite conducive to getting things done knitting wise, I have a lot of sitting around in airports, hotels, planes etc. It is quite a meditaive passtime and I can do it watching the TV.

You are all making me envious (sunny too!). Ed is the cleverest for luring dates with knitwear. Wow!

Well, TBH, my lady got me into (back into after 20 years I guess) knitting.

I tried knitting when I was much younger for about a month before deciding that it really wasn't something I wanted to do unless I one day magically grew a vagina.

(Instead, I began to pursue the manly art of ACTING!)

Well if you ever magically grow a vagina, you are welcome to knit at my house any time, Mr. Thespian.

I have grown a vagina on my elbow, all thanks to knitting.

LUCKY BASTARD

Last two posts = the most disturbing posts I've read lately.

WANT ELBOW VAGINA.

GUIZE I AM GOING TO THIS AND PRETENDING TO BE MERICAN AND GO' GIVE MONAY TO BAMA: http://www.democratsabroad.org/node/6234

Guys, they ran out of gin so I had to mix gin with vodka, is this like playing bass through a guitar amp?

incidentally Christopher Blix Hammer went to london and got so drunk he bought this mother's ruin recipe to make in norway.

Guys, they ran out of gin so I had to mix gin with vodka, is this like playing bass through a guitar amp?

haha that reminds me of a college drinking story:

We were having a party senior year, so my roommates and I went out and bought a shit-ton of alcohol. One roommate bought himself a bottle of peach schnapps for later consumption that got intermingled with the booze for the party. When people began to show up, they went straight for the schnapps and started making themselves fuzzy navels. My roommate quickly discovered this and hid his schnapps before everyone could drink it.

Another friend of ours had volunteered to act as bartender but was running late, so he missed the whole schnapps controversy. By the time he got himself set up to mix drinks, the lights were dimmed and people were tipsily walking up to him asking for fuzzy navels. He looked around and saw no peach schnapps, so he grabbed a beer cup, filled it with ice, gin and vodka and said, "Here you go!"

The devastation was amazing. We had people huddled underneath the sink crying, people attempting to make out on the dance floor and MISSING, numerous pukers who managed to hold it in until about 10 feet after leaving our dorm room... Such good times.

gah plane is late, only chrome hoof and Christopher Blix Hammer can get me through this.