Here and There

Those of you who enjoyed the Weight Watcher's Recipe Cards from the 70's, brought to you by Wendy, over at Pound -- that'd be a different Wendy than Wendy at WendyKnits -- won't want to miss the English to German and then Back into English translation of the introduction, wherein you can read such sentences as "And nevertheless also, completely spirit-ill," whatever the hell that means. I find it interesting that the ONLY sentence to have survived the computer's mangled translation process is "I would probably have supressed the memory, anyway." Surely this Means Something.

I realized a couple of nights ago that I had to start a new knitting project before I finished Catherine Parr, oh, gee, darn. I'm leaving now for a four day seminar to meet with other Graduate Directors of English Departments and moan and complain and then think up interesting new projects and exchange hints, and it's my custom, always, to knit at academic events (and boy, does that cause a ruckus!), except when I'm in a session in which I'm giving a paper, which this week I'm not. So I'm going to be knitting A LOT, God willing and the creek don't rise, and if I take Catherine Parr I'll be done about Friday morning, and then have no knitting, which will make me cranky.

So I cast on for Jade Starmore's "Oriental Flower" (scroll down) design for my granddaughter. Lovely. Makes me look forward to waiting at the airport. It's too boring to look at right now, though -- nothing but the hem done -- so I'll post pictures later.

Which I'm off to do right now -- I'll be back Sunday night.