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July 07, 2008
well, hello there.
For those who only come here for the hot sticks-on-string action who may be about to quit me for lack of a fix, here's proof I do still partake occasionally:
Half a Noro Kureyon knee sock, the product of a lazy Saturday spent with good friends and a few hours of car travel on Sunday. This Noro sock yarn is the last yarn I bought, pre-ordered in early December and delivered to me in February. I didn't ever get around to writing about it in much depth here, but I decided to knit from stash in 2008 and not buy any yarn or spinning fibre at all this year. It's been rather easy, as I've had to take a lot of time off to rest my wrist and recover from the damage I inflicted on myself in the frenzy that was the end of grad school. I think I'm ready to dive back in though. My stash isn't all that extensive compared to some people's and I got rid of a lot before moving back from school, but I've still got more than enough to keep the ol' RSI busy. I haven't attached a bunch of complex conditions or exemptions to my knit-from-stash guideline, I'm just not buying yarn, period. Yesterday I bought a secondhand sweater to unravel (if you ever find yourself in Arlington Heights, Illinois, there's a pretty good Goodwill there) but even that was the first time all year I've done so.
Speaking of the end of grad school, we arrived home from a 4th-of-July trip to visit friends in Illinois to find this in the mailbox:
It's official!
Here's something funny and frightening that we saw on the weekend, at the Naperville Ribfest. This advertising image is not what it appears to be at first glance:
Do you see it?
Also, I don't know what the "exchange club" is but somehow I always thought exchange club was more about spouses than kids, and that it didn't really get going until after the kids were in bed.
Posted by jodi at July 7, 2008 02:38 PM | categories: dumbass : jet set : school : sticks and string
Comments
Congratulations "Mistress" Jodi!
And I totally see arse on that banner.
Posted by: AmyP at July 7, 2008 03:50 PM
Um....WOW. Yeah, that's about all I can say about that pic. Oh my.
Congratulations on the officialness of your MFA - very exciting! I've missed your thesis blog; I didn't realize how much watching your work and process was inspiring my own. So, that being said: get to work! For MY sake, that is.
Posted by: NJStacie at July 7, 2008 04:30 PM
OMG! I did a double take on that picture! How funny!
Congrats on the "official" diploma!
Posted by: Jody at July 7, 2008 05:05 PM
Oh! I saw it! I need to go wash out my brain with a healthy dose of soap or cider...That was just so wrong...and I can blame no one but my twisted mind.
However, I thank you, that was exactly what I needed to break up my Monday :).
Posted by: Mary at July 7, 2008 05:34 PM
Is it just me, or does it look like someone with a giant hand is reaching up to grab someone else's crotch??? I really had to work to see it as holding hands...
Posted by: crumpet at July 7, 2008 07:43 PM
Guess what! Your package arrived today. Of Course.
Posted by: Ghita at July 7, 2008 09:34 PM
You wacky knitters. If you're not getting edjumacated, you're looking at dirty signs.
:-)
Congrats, Jodi. You deserve it.
Posted by: NWJR at July 7, 2008 10:37 PM
crumpet, that's almost what I saw. Thumb/butt expresses it a little more clearly.
Then I thought "Ribs" and "It's all about kids", which led me to "Baby -- the other OTHER white meat."
Yeah, I like Austin Powers. Sue me.
Posted by: Janice in GA at July 8, 2008 09:42 AM
Yeah I see it. I wonder if that isn't an elaborate joke by the graphic designer - no one could do that by accident? Could they?
And congratulations. Can I call you Master?
Posted by: Juno at July 8, 2008 10:39 AM
I don't see anything! :( I alway sucked at these puzzles!
The question is, What the heck was a Veggie doing at a ribfest?
Posted by: Sherry W at July 8, 2008 11:59 AM
Um, it took me a SOLID 5 minutes to actually be able to see that that is NOT a picture of a giant thumb up a baby's butt.
Posted by: Lara at July 8, 2008 02:19 PM
Good god, I had to look at that sign for a looong time to see what the hell that was...for awhile I thought this must be the annual rib-fest for NAMBLA...
Posted by: nstssj at July 8, 2008 06:08 PM
Hey, we have a club like that right down the street from us...
Oh wait. Maybe not.
"Jodi Lee"? Well, no wonder you done went and gotcher MFA in Georgia, sweetpea....
(Congratufelicitations :-))
Posted by: Lee Ann at July 8, 2008 09:47 PM
...and I had to read the comments just to see what everyone else thought it was. I didn't see anything either.
Congrats, grad! :-)
Posted by: TheAmpuT at July 9, 2008 01:25 AM
Around my house we refer to the MFA as the Motherfuckin' Artist degree.
Congrats!!
Posted by: Ragnar at July 9, 2008 02:36 PM
Oh my. It took me a while to figure out what was *actually* going on in that banner. "Oh, two HANDS!"
Posted by: alison at July 9, 2008 06:03 PM