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KNITTING
- I am trying madly to finish an overdue contribution to a knit-a-thon for the benefit of people living with breast or ovarian cancer. I'm working on a striped scarf in a lovely feather-and-fan pattern. I like the pattern but all the ends I'm going to have to weave in are discouraging to contemplate.
- I am starting to think holiday knitting thoughts. I've misplaced my pattern for this Botanic Hat but as soon as I unearth it I want to start on one in blue and gray for one of my no-longer-so-very-young cousins.
READING
- Picked up Barbara Ehrenreich's Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream yesterday. Like Nickel and Dimed, it is well-observed and persuasive and deeply disheartening, the more so because it describes the world of unemployment as it was circa 2004 - and the picture is only worse now. I want to take both books and beat certain powerful individuals with them.
VIEWING
- a new season of QI
- odd episodes of "Would I Lie To You," most recently an episode that had Lee Mack asking David Mitchell "Too large for what? THE SEA?"
- Doctor Who, of course. I am, at the moment, feeling some dissatisfaction with the split season because I feel like we got almost all meaty arc-y episodes in the first half and we've had mostly one-off-with-arc-y-nods episodes in the second half.
- A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, which will go off Netflix Streaming on Friday. I'm on an ancient grandfathered plan that allows five hours of streaming a month, which will not be quite enough to get through all the episodes we've not yet seen, but we're going to give it a jolly good try.
- Soon, s2 of Downton Abbey.
LISTENING
- Kat Eggleston's renditions of old and should-be-old ballads in which women are NOT screwed over. "The Flower of Northumberland," "Banks of Sweet Dundee," "Birken Tree," and "The Naked Highwayman." (Her original songs are frequently good also.)
- John Oliver's news podcast "The Bugle." It's funny, and for the John-Oliver focused, also is a source of tidbits like the fact that he has a puppy named Hoagie. A PUPPY NAMED HOAGIE.
- I am trying madly to finish an overdue contribution to a knit-a-thon for the benefit of people living with breast or ovarian cancer. I'm working on a striped scarf in a lovely feather-and-fan pattern. I like the pattern but all the ends I'm going to have to weave in are discouraging to contemplate.
- I am starting to think holiday knitting thoughts. I've misplaced my pattern for this Botanic Hat but as soon as I unearth it I want to start on one in blue and gray for one of my no-longer-so-very-young cousins.
READING
- Picked up Barbara Ehrenreich's Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream yesterday. Like Nickel and Dimed, it is well-observed and persuasive and deeply disheartening, the more so because it describes the world of unemployment as it was circa 2004 - and the picture is only worse now. I want to take both books and beat certain powerful individuals with them.
VIEWING
- a new season of QI
- odd episodes of "Would I Lie To You," most recently an episode that had Lee Mack asking David Mitchell "Too large for what? THE SEA?"
- Doctor Who, of course. I am, at the moment, feeling some dissatisfaction with the split season because I feel like we got almost all meaty arc-y episodes in the first half and we've had mostly one-off-with-arc-y-nods episodes in the second half.
- A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, which will go off Netflix Streaming on Friday. I'm on an ancient grandfathered plan that allows five hours of streaming a month, which will not be quite enough to get through all the episodes we've not yet seen, but we're going to give it a jolly good try.
- Soon, s2 of Downton Abbey.
LISTENING
- Kat Eggleston's renditions of old and should-be-old ballads in which women are NOT screwed over. "The Flower of Northumberland," "Banks of Sweet Dundee," "Birken Tree," and "The Naked Highwayman." (Her original songs are frequently good also.)
- John Oliver's news podcast "The Bugle." It's funny, and for the John-Oliver focused, also is a source of tidbits like the fact that he has a puppy named Hoagie. A PUPPY NAMED HOAGIE.
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