My last journey in the Before Times was to a huge science conference in Seattle. I snuck away to Pike Place Market between sessions to buy a hank of beautiful silk/alpaca yarn in a delicious spring green to match my boots, and a new pair of beautiful wooden needles to work it.
I knit around and around in circles the next few days, adding rows while livetweeting research talks, awkwardly networking with science writers I鈥檇 known for years but never met, and burying my unease about reports of novel coronavirus cases popping up in North America.
Strikes were blocking the rail lines home and I started to worry I鈥檇 be trapped on the wrong side of the border as a pandemic blossomed.
So I knit.
And I knit, and I knit.
And I kept knitting to keep my hands busy and my mind keeping up a steady background of counting so I wouldn鈥檛 have space to fret about all the things I couldn鈥檛 change, and I tweeted and I talked and I knit some more.
The strikes lifted just in time for my train back north. Three weeks after I got home and unpacked my bags, the Canadian border closed for two years.
I haven鈥檛 touched my knitting since I got off the train.
A lot has changed since then. Vaccines, elections, a whole new human in my family, a whole future I couldn鈥檛 have imagined that鈥檚 now my past. I would鈥檝e sworn I was making a hat, but from loop size it鈥檚 looking more like an infinity scarf and I don鈥檛 know if that鈥檚 a flaw in my memories or in the distracted counting of me in the last days before the world changed.
I picked it up tonight.
I wonder if I can still match the tension.
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If I had a nickel for every time I fell in love with a queer, fictionalized depiction of a real-life 18th century thief played by a washed-up, middle-aged comedian in leather pants, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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Watching The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. It鈥檚 funny but it鈥檚 making me miss Stede Bonnet
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Why on earth would I want you to express your individuality? No. I want you to play your designated roles.
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I met this moose at the South Australian Museum. I told my humans that I am obviously much better than him because he is stuffed and now they're whispering something that sounds like "Who's going to tell him?" I don't get it
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i want to watch fiona and cake but i didnt finish adventure time back in the day (got sick of waiting for eps to release, just for it to be filler until the finale/opening of each season)
i must find.... a watch guide i think... so I know whats happening before starting fiona and cake...?
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Sorry I haven't been able to post much art lately, but I had to take time out of my busy schedule to draw my current favorite TAZ NPC
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This morning I didn't want to get up at 5 am to go outside for a walk, my belly ached and my head throbbed (so much moisture from all the rain give me bad headaches) and I just felt gross.
But I made a commitment to myself that when I had the time, I would get up and go. Today it paid off, notably did my headache mostly go away and the nauseous feeling, Tika and I got to watch a moose feeding for a few minutes before she took off.
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Betty and the gang cheer Jughead on as he embarks on yet another burger-eating contest in Midnight Snack, Chilling Adventures in Sorcery (2021).
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