Monthly Archives: July 2005

I just got the first transcript back from the transcriptionist, and it’s great! She’s cleaned it up a lot (unless you’ve tried transcribing tapes before, you have NO idea how scattered and full of ums, ers, and ahs human speech is) and turned it into something I can work with easily. I can scan seven [...]

I went off yesterday for lunch with a friend, who very patiently listened to my rambling fears about the book, and finally said, “You know, I think most of your fears will be solved by just sitting down and writing.” And you know, he was right? All the questions about format and so on are [...]

Craft-wise, it has been a bit of a busy week: An order of fine (30/2) silk yarn finally arrived, and it is gorgeous! I am starting to knit test swatches for my tiger lily shawl. I’m also experimenting with different textural effects that I’ve learned from this Japanese knitting shawl. I’m knitting it up on [...]

I just got done interviewing this really amazing AIDS Lifecycle rider—she was the last rider of the day on Days 3 and 6. She didn’t have time to train—she didn’t know she was going to do the ride until the week before, so she didn’t do any training until the week before the ride. She [...]

First, I have a Turkish spindle! I mean a real one, from Turkey and everything. Well-used, entirely handmade, with elaborately carved crosspieces, and carefully carved so the two interlocking arms of the “whorl” fit precisely together. A friend of mine went to Turkey and spotted it in a bazaar, along with a bunch of other [...]