Because I didn’t have enough projects planned already

The new Knitty is out and it’s full of great projects this time. There wasn’t anything in the summer issue that really appealed to me, which was disappointing because usually there’s a few things I could see myself making. Not a problem this time. I’m definitely going to add a me-sized Accordian to my projects list. There are several other jackets I’d consider making too. Accordian will be a good use of some of that half a ton of Peace Fleece in my stash.

A few of us from the MFA program went to hear Jhumpa Lahiri read from her new novel tonight. She won the Pulitzer for a somewhat uneven collection of short stories, and this combined with the fact that she’s charming and intelligent and beautiful made us inclined to dislike her. (Writers are terrible. We’re just like everyone else, but more so.) Then we watched her looking very uncomfortable as the photographers backed her against a bookcase and camera bulbs flashed in her face. And then she admitted that readings like tonight’s (it was PACKED) made her feel that maybe her writing was coherent and good, because she did doubt that. Which makes her just like us, but with two published books, a Pulitzer and a PEN. That’s good news. It’s also bad news. If her doubt never goes away, ours probably doesn’t either. So in the end, we liked her.

And in the face of that, boy does it feel good to just knit a sock! Tuesday is for getting tomato sauce on your knitting. Knitting circle tomorrow night! (Well, today by the time most of you read this since it’s already almost midnight.) Michelle of Everybody Loves Saturday Night (Isn’t that the BEST blog name) will be joining us for the first time. Can’t wait to meet her in the real world. What happens when two Grammar Avengers Who Knit meet offline? Hold on to your dictionaries. That’ll be THREE, actually. Andrea, who is a GAWK Without a Blog, will be here too.