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Sometimes I wonder if I do too many things at once. I am a person with many interests and hobbies, and my life's mission seems to involve personal projects of all nature. At the same time, variety is the spice of life, and I love it. Nothing makes me more miserable than monotony. Anyhow, given my predisposition to multitasking, it should come as no suprise that I have decided to take up sewing. Yes, sewing. I had something of a revelation while I was in Austin and I have spent the weeks since then mulling the idea around in my brain. It is very exciting for me. Certain individuals may think that activities such as knitting and sewing are part of an archaic homemaker tradition, but, as a follower of neo-homemakingism, I view these activities as a wonderful creative outlet with valuable civil society potential.

Speaking of such things, there are multiple knitting projects that I would like to share. Unfortunately, I have not been, as they say, on the ball. For Josh's birthday, I knat him a fantastic green hat with fair isle mountain bikes in some Peruvian merino wool I found in Portland. Additionally, the fair isle messenger bag is coming along nicely, slowly but surely. It's about 275 stitches in the round and the fair isle is rather timeconsuming. I must say, I have big plans for this bag. Hopefully by the time that I have the knitting portion and the felting portion completed, I will have mastered my sewing machine enough to sew a reinforced canvass lining with zippered pockets. Incidentally, I have inside of me a dream of one day having an online shop to sell some of my creations.

In other news, some of you may have utilized your visual abilities and observed that there has been a redesign of this site. I would like to thank my dear Amy for her clever skillz and kindness in volunteering her time. And for those firefox users, there are plans to fix the wonkiness of the parsing or whateveritis, so sit tight and hold thyne horses.

Anyhoot, I haven't really done anything of note recently. Over the weekend, I began reading Anchee Min's Becoming Madame Mao. I am enjoying it, but I'm not thrilled by the style of narration. On Friday, Josh and I went to the dollar theater to see The Illusionist. Incidentally, the Overland Park Cinema has the best movie deal in Boise: for three dollars, one gets a movie entrance, a beverage and food item. A week ago, Josh and I saw Jet Li's Fearless at OPC and it was great. I, for one, cannot quite comprehend why people go to full priced movies these days - - at $9.00 for a ticket and then $4.00 for popcorn and $4.00 for a drink, it's way too much money. Especially when you can have it all for $3.00 and a little patience.

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