Classy Pin-Up Gal
Today the blog is so fragmented I am unable to construct suitable transitions between segments. Hence, I number them instead, so it looks like I had an order:
1) It's a good sort of life, when occasionally you find yourself saying things like, "Keeping the Dog Out of Trouble," meet "Sticks and String"! and then you get to buy yarn, eat lunch at a Thai restaurant, and talk talk talk with another knitter.
I suppose it's not really surprising that I've enjoyed so much the knitting bloggers I've met -- I only meet ones whose blogs I like, so the odds are great I'm not going to find myself bored. But still. It always seems like a little miracle to me -- look! Another human being I've never met before and I enjoy her company! And we have things to talk about! How odd is that!
2) Depressing as it is, I keep up with Critical Mass, cause if you're being an English Professor you never know when some of the academic horror stories Erin posts are going to be Relevant To Your Daily Life. It turns out it's a good thing, because the horror story she links to today looks to me like one I could fall into. I can imagine finding myself at some point in a classroom saying something idiotic like "I'll give an A to anybody who takes their clothes off," and then being shocked when somebody does cause I only meant to cause my students to think about cultural expectations, and then having to retire due to the following hoo-hah. I can see me getting into that sort of trouble.
Ok, well, maybe not.
But still, it's good to be reminded. Yo! All you professors! Do NOT offer A's for classroom nudity! Bad idea!
3) I don't usually share with you the results of the Quizilla tests I take when I'm surfing the blogs. I don't have much to say about the fact that the Quizilla tests have decided that if I were a Peanut's character I'd be Schroeder, or if I were a classic movie I'd be "Apocalypse Now," or if I were yarn I'd be mohair, though I do often bother to find out. However. I DO want to discuss this:
You are the classy pin-up! You are everything
sophisticated and refined about the entire era.
You exude class and dignity.
What Type Of Retro Gal Are You?
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I'm mildly pleased by this. I'm cheered to find that I am at heart a classy pinup girl. Also, as Sam will tell you, I look JUST like this. In certain lights.
However. Does not the phrase "classy pinup girl" bring to mind other phrases such as "military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp" and "diet ice cream"?
Yep. There you are. I AM an oxymoron. Thanks, Quizilla!
1) It's a good sort of life, when occasionally you find yourself saying things like, "Keeping the Dog Out of Trouble," meet "Sticks and String"! and then you get to buy yarn, eat lunch at a Thai restaurant, and talk talk talk with another knitter.
I suppose it's not really surprising that I've enjoyed so much the knitting bloggers I've met -- I only meet ones whose blogs I like, so the odds are great I'm not going to find myself bored. But still. It always seems like a little miracle to me -- look! Another human being I've never met before and I enjoy her company! And we have things to talk about! How odd is that!
2) Depressing as it is, I keep up with Critical Mass, cause if you're being an English Professor you never know when some of the academic horror stories Erin posts are going to be Relevant To Your Daily Life. It turns out it's a good thing, because the horror story she links to today looks to me like one I could fall into. I can imagine finding myself at some point in a classroom saying something idiotic like "I'll give an A to anybody who takes their clothes off," and then being shocked when somebody does cause I only meant to cause my students to think about cultural expectations, and then having to retire due to the following hoo-hah. I can see me getting into that sort of trouble.
Ok, well, maybe not.
But still, it's good to be reminded. Yo! All you professors! Do NOT offer A's for classroom nudity! Bad idea!
3) I don't usually share with you the results of the Quizilla tests I take when I'm surfing the blogs. I don't have much to say about the fact that the Quizilla tests have decided that if I were a Peanut's character I'd be Schroeder, or if I were a classic movie I'd be "Apocalypse Now," or if I were yarn I'd be mohair, though I do often bother to find out. However. I DO want to discuss this:
You are the classy pin-up! You are everything
sophisticated and refined about the entire era.
You exude class and dignity.
What Type Of Retro Gal Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
I'm mildly pleased by this. I'm cheered to find that I am at heart a classy pinup girl. Also, as Sam will tell you, I look JUST like this. In certain lights.
However. Does not the phrase "classy pinup girl" bring to mind other phrases such as "military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp" and "diet ice cream"?
Yep. There you are. I AM an oxymoron. Thanks, Quizilla!
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