Lee Thomson

May 29
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

Finished this morning before everyone left for school – is that technically still yesterday?

I don’t mind the speed, or lack thereof, of handwork. Really. I just realize in a big way what a series of tradeoffs the whole time management thing is. Since I started the postcards, my reading has dropped to less than a book a week, and most of those are art books, so I can leaf through them and then drop them. I used to be a book a day, give or take; not serious books but stuff that I can think about and a plot I can follow, or interesting craft books to prod me into action. I haven’t watched anything – TV or movie – for months. I almost miss it, except when I sit down to watch anything it seems insanely trivial and horribly slow moving. I knit(ted) a lot last year, to the point where Aerin asked if I had given up reading just to knit (she was really mad at me about the very thought). This year, the socks are definitely a backburner, waiting room kind of deal, rather than curling up on the couch and meditating on another couple rows. The exercise thing went out the window. I am dragging more regimented
exercise back into the equation, and trying to get the sleep thing back
under control, and then I leave a postcard dangling.

Not to sound whiny or anything. I’m just nattering. Al calls it self discovery through nattering. He manages self discovery through staring off into space, a much quieter trick.

Yarn Harlot today!!
She’s coming to town, and I’m going to see her, along with several
hundred of my closest friends and other knitters. I have to dig out
Nicky Epstein (I almost wrote Knicky) and find a knitted leaf.