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I missed you!

And I mean flushed in the non-bathroom sort of way

Weighing my pockets with stones of longing

Especially when those days are Saturday and Sunday.

They always come crawling back

Oh, the many joys that flossing brings...

< 4 April 2006 >


Yesterday I decided to bring some knitting to school. I wanted to look up the details of a new technique on the school computer, and this way I figured I could try it out and make sure I understood. I already had all my copying done, so I had all of recess to grapple with the stitch.

So I'm sitting there in the teachers' lounge with my back to the sunny playground, a pile of house vocab handouts in front of me, a tiny muddle of silver wool in my lap. Gisele (my boss/the principal) and I had been talking about knitting when Olivier (the scruffy one Hillary thinks is hot) came in. He did an exaggerated double take and asked incredulously, "You're knitting??" Without missing a beat, Gisele jumped in and chortled, "She's knitting herself a thong."

The idea was so absurd that I didn't even bother to refute it, and that decision was followed by Olivier standing there staring at me for a solid thirty seconds, at which point Gisele glibly added, "He's trying to picture you in it." This was perhaps one of the most embarrassing moments of my teaching career.

I was just weeding through some old e-mails trying to find my crafster password (I know, exciting life I have...) and I ran across an old e-mail to Kelsey which ended:

P.S. Did I mention that the guy who wrote the first Rambo book is stalking my parents?

Haha, that was a crazy time, wasn't it?

Bohemian rhapsody is playing in the cyber cafe, it's uber windy and quiet out tonight, and it's all good.


Wool bikinis: Flirting with disaster at 8:10 p.m.


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