Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Month: February 2007

  • Remember those things called books?

    This is funny:

  • Hi

    Just thought I’d pop in and say hello. I don’t have anything bloggable at the moment going on, so that’s why it’s been kind of quiet the past few days. I have been feeling really good mentally, though. I feel like myself again, thank goodness. Thanks for all of the good thoughts. It has really…

  • The Rules of Survival

    I just this very minute finished reading The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin. Wow. What wonderfully, fantastically, tragically sad book. The book is actually a fictional letter written by Matthew to his little sister, Emmy. He writes it because he wants her to know about her mother: I have decided to write it all…

  • This is weird

    Okay. I woke up this morning depressed again. I couldn’t sleep last night because I’ve just kind of been worried about life. I have kind of been shuffling around the house this morning totally unmotivated. I already blew off exercising for knitting, which I think was a good thing because knitting calms my nerves. (Except…

  • On frustration and moving on

    I’ve been working on the Pomatomus sock pattern this past week. It’s been frustrating for me. There is something about the pattern where my brain kind of forgets to add the yarn over several rows in a row and then at some point I realize that I have, like, six fewer stitches than I am…