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Indictment Watch 2005

poor scooter.

however, seeing him on crutches further confirms in my mind that he was just pushed under a bus.

one down ....

For Crazy Aunt Purl

laurie wants to see my office.  who am i to tell her no?  so let's go for a little trip, shall we?

here comes the train...

here's a picture of the hancock tower just because it looked so pretty. 

there are two desks in my office but right now there's only one of us, me, in this office.  and i intend it to stay that way.  i had an officemate in this ridiculously small office for a short while, (because i'm a putz and way too nice and so people don't think twice about pushing an office mate on me because they figure  i'm not going to complain) and we were like burp and slurp, the way we were running into eachother all of the time.  i've been spreading my stuff out onto that desk since intentionally as a deterent.  hmmm looks too clean -- i'll have to bring more stuff.

here's my side of the room.  that's a knitted scarf you see there in the left hand corner.  and i'm glad to see i don't have bloglines up on my screen.  that would be embarrassing.

here's the other side of my desk.  doesn't look too bad.  i'm not particularly neat but i can't work in clutter, go figure.  also, everything i work on is on the network, so i'm virtually paperless.  i did not clean up before the photo shot.

shelf with stuff.

redsox hat and cvs brand triscuits.

caffeine

coconut monkey head.

my obsession wall -- pictures of j and mini coopers.

more mini, all of the time.

time to go home.

Lincoln Logs

just wanted to say that despite evidence to the contrary, i have been knitting.

here's the last (thank christ) of 16 13in x 13 in log cabin squares.   

here's the whole friggin' stack of 'em.  when i don't hate this project so much, i plan on sewing the squares together, edging them in a contrasting solid color, and sending the finished blanket off to a friend of mine who was married last month. 

Woo-hoo!

finally, pictures ....

i've gotten a couple of requests for the recipe for the rigatoni -- or rigabony (as martha stewart calls it during halloween time).  yes, it's one of her recipes,but instead of making the sauce from scratch, i used jar sauce.  and i used 1 lb of ground beef instead of the sausage.  super easy and yummy.

Maryse Needs ...

to post some pictures ... but until i do i thought i'd google "maryse needs .." and see what came up and this is what came up ...

1.  Maryse needs to become Mary-Sue

that's it.  nothing more.  i just need to become mary-sue.  if i become mary-sue will i like my knitting more?  will i be a blonde?  will i be 40 lbs thinner?

so i googled "Mary-Sue needs"...

first on the list ...

1.  Mary-Sue needs  a name  ( hmmm well she's got a name it's maryse!)

2.  Mary-Sue needs to find away to get raid (sic) of the Mistress

3.  Mary Sue needs a partner on a dance contest for Music Video Nation’s Spring Break
special. 

4.  Mary Sue needs to die. (now that's just not nice).

5.  Mary Sue needs to be more "Normal" as a blonde or brunette in order to burst
resplendently out of her cocoon at the end of the novel.

6.  Mary Sue needs to start in on a wank-o-rama (ok that is definitely "a dirty")

7.  Mary Sue needs to be taught a lesson. (before or after the wank-0-rama?)

8.  Mary Sue needs love.  (especially if some are wishing her to die)

9.  Mary Sue needs to rest.  (the wank-0-rama was exhausting).

10.  Mary Sue needs help designing The hats for The Pilgrims and Indians. 

Almost Famous ...

work's been bringing me down lately for various reasons, but today i got some good news...

i'm going to be published for the first time in 8 years!  oh not published like in a stephanie or amy or kim sort of way.  there will be no book tours for me.  but it'll be nice to see my name in print again even if it's in a big dork, science geek sort of way.

Book 'em Dano

too bad ... so sad 

Breathe ....

on my way to work this morning, i stopped by the harvard coop ... and in a matter of minutes spent close to $60 on impulse buys...

a needlepoint wall calendar kit, a cross-stitch wall calendar kit and the knitting pattern a day desk calendar.

no sooner had i walked out of the store that i decided that the 2 wall calendar kits were going back.  who needs that many calendars!?  since when do i do cross-stitch?  when am i going to do needle point?  what was i thinking?

good thing i know where the receipt is. 

Checking In...

after what felt like 40 days and 40 nights of constant rain, the sun finally came out.  j vacuumed up about 40 gallons of water out of the basement (sounds like a lot but really isn't) and we're considering  ourselves lucky since some folks have a lot of cleaning up to do still.  other than that, nothing much to report really that doesn't consist of me whining about how much my life has been sucking lately.   (and no one wants to hear about that).

i did however receive my fancy new camera.  the nikon coolpix S4.    a thing of beauty, let me tell you.  it's cute, without being ridiculously small.  it's got a comfortable amount of weight to it.   (after playing with a girlfriend's canon digital ELPH i decided that there was such a thing as too small a camera ... for my russian wash woman cotton knitting hands anyway).   there was some initial panic when i accidently set the menu language to Swedish but luckily i know that the swedish word for Yes is Ja and with my trusty manual was able to fix that.  i've taken a few pictures but i haven't transfered anything to my computer yet.   i'm afraid that when i load up the software needed, my almost 8 year old dell desktop will scream in protest and just refuse to work anymore.  technically it should work.  but that's a big should.

anyway, i'll write more when i've got some pictures to show.

Still No Pictures

my new camera is supposed to be here tomorrow.  i leave for washington on wednesday (a little business trip).  if i don't have it tomorrow, that means i have to wait until friday to get it.  please be here tomorrow...

i've been working on a few projects, but again, because i don't have a camera (well i have a film SLR but it kind of takes a while to get the pictures), i can't show you progress.  not to worry, you aren't missing much. 

in the meantime, a quiz, which i got from kellee.

You Belong in Paris Stylish and a little sassy, you were meant for Paris. The art, the fashion, the wine, the men! Whether you're enjoying the cafe life or a beautiful park... You'll love living in the most chic place on earth What City Do You Belong in? Take This Quiz :-) Find the Love of Your Life (and More Love Quizzes) at Your New Romance.

i swear i didn't fudge this.  i guess you can take the girl out of paris but you can't take paris out of the girl.