… while I may not have recovered from my fangirl episode in the library when I found my Völuspá yesterday, the thrill is definitely still there (having spent the afternoon reading it). These guys knew how to tell a decent doomsday story. Seriously! It’s funny what you pick up on after the fact/out of the academic context. … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: May 2011
You can take the girl out of academia…
… but apparently you can’t take academia out of the girl. So after a thoroughly entertaining discussion at lunch about Scandinavian metal (and death metal), I had the sudden urge to re-read the Völuspá, (because I really enjoy Nordic apocryphal poetry). Seeing as all my ON and OE stuff is in the Bay, I had … Continue reading »
Putting my grand master plan into motion…
Remember, gentle reader, when I declared my boring? I was chastised quite soundly from all quarters for saying that – but I did say you’d think me silly. There was a caveat. But after my admission of being beige, I came up with this brilliant master plan, but I haven’t quite figured the last part … Continue reading »
Books, berets, and banal reviews – oh my!
So I’ve got Jim Bryson and Missy Higgins on iTunes, a bed full off books and yarn and needles and patterns, and my second helping of mac’n’cheese. It is a good Sunday evening. I mentioned something last post about books, and I will deliver. I had a good Easter weekend finishing not one, not two, … Continue reading »
“Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing, only there’s a winner.”*
Since I last wrote, dear reader, I did what some thought impossible: I deleted my Facebook account. I can hear the startled gasps from here, but I can assure you it was painless, and quite liberating. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about for a few years now, and I had been slowly moving my … Continue reading »
Shoes, ships and sealing wax…
Since I last posted, dear reader, it’s been a difficult couple of weeks. I will say no more on that matter, but thank you ladies, for being your utterly brilliant selves – you know who you are, and you know what you did. Thanks for your patience. Again. All that aside, it’s been a few … Continue reading »
The Yarn Hamlet
I will post more later, but I’m exhausted. It’s been a long few days. I just wanted to blog for posterity something that started innocently enough on FB, but due to sheer geekiness and not a little bastardisation of The Bard, became a little bit of what the exceptionally brilliant GidgetKnits and I have deemed The … Continue reading »
