Lockdown in the Ivory Tower (that chain letter thing)

So it's been a few months. I know. But I moved to Highland Park, acquired the kitten-sized versions of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein (hereafter known as Pablo and Gertie), started knitting lace socks like crazy, started learning to spin, and met a really amazing someone. And, oh yeah, there's that dissertation thing too.

Pictures of the knitting and the kittens to follow; my camera is broken. (It turns out that the absence of pictures makes for a kind of boring blog entry. Blogging is often so much more visual than verbal.)

I was inspired to blog again by a strange small world kind of coincidence. One of the graduate students in my department has a blog. I generally don't read it, mostly because I only read knitblogs and the blogs of close friends. Anyway, this morning I was making my daily round of the knitblogs and, lo and behold, there was a link to fellow grad student's blog. He's giving a paper at MLA on rate of transmission and blogs. Or something. It appears that graduate school has found my fiber-lined electronic haven. Even if I avoid academia in the blogosphere, I can't escape it. The university--my university, no less--will hunt me down and rustle me out of my dissertation-avoidant copse. (Not that I'm personalizing something that has nothing to do with me or projecting my own work anxiety onto an unrelated blog entry. Nope. I would never do that.)

So I guess that I'm participating in this little project (which requires that you mention it, link to it, and then ping technorati). It seems obvious (to me) that I should do my part, given that knitblogging apparently baffles people who study blogs (because knitters don't fit the generic blogger profile) and academic blogging is sometimes understood as a whole other continent in the blogosphere (which is totally inaccurate, in my experience---many, many knitting academic bloggers who are happily marrying the two genres), and I am a knitter and an academic and a person who blogs occasionally, mostly about neither knitting nor academia.

Back to Two Serious Ladies and sock-knitting. I'm working on Hedera right now.