I am such a geek. I have been for a long time and I know that I am a geek, but every once in a while a glaring example of my geekness pops up and reminds me in a big way.
The latest proof of my life as a dork is the iPod shuffle that I asked for and received for Christmas. It is the cutest little thing, the smallest in the iPod line both physically and in its capacity, and mine is a lovely purple color. iPods are very popular right now with many people, in fact with many COOL people...so how does having an iPod represent my geekness? It's not that I have an iPod, it's what I do with it that makes me a geek. I have yet to download a single song onto it; my iPod is used exclusively to listen to NPR podcasts.
Yes, you read correctly. I use my incredibly high tech music player to listen to radio programs from National Public Radio. Rather than hover around my radio at certain times each week to hear my favorite programs, I can quickly and easily download those programs and listen to them at my leisure. And since my mediocre local NPR station doesn't even broadcast some of my favorite shows, this provides me with the way to hear them.
And it gets even worse. I do not like to wear ear buds, so I listen to my iPod most of the time using a little speaker made just for iPods. The speaker is bigger than the actual iPod! So there I am, toting around the house a little iPod on a slightly bigger speaker with the voice of Peter Sagal or Neal Conan projecting from it. It works great for me as I clean the house, work in the kitchen or sit and knit. And one night last week when J wanted to want some show that did not interest me, I sat in the sunroom, knitted and listened to The People's Pharmacy, using the dreaded ear buds.
My name is The Queen, and I am an NPR geek.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Tada!
Yesterday I finished my very first knitting project. It is a scarf (in case that is not obvious from the photos) and it is about 6-1/2" x 64".
I am so proud of my little creation. Our knitting class got together again yesterday afternoon and Hannah (the knitting instructor) was very complimentary about my technique. I was the only student who had any real progress to show. I was also able to teach Hannah something she did not know, about the edge stitch that I ended up using to keep my ends neat and the width uniform. And it turns out that she uses a different method to bind off than the one that Geri mentioned and the one I learned off knittinghelp.com - I like the one I used better.
It was good because Hannah had us practice some basic stuff some more, showed us how to weave in the ends, yada yada yada. Last evening, I added the fringe and tada! When I showed A the finished scarf this morning, he told me that he was proud of me...how sweet.
I have started on my next scarf, which uses a chenille-like yarn knit with two strands on size 19 needles. It is going to be really soft and fluffy, but those big needles feel really awkward right now - like knitting with baguettes!
I am so proud of my little creation. Our knitting class got together again yesterday afternoon and Hannah (the knitting instructor) was very complimentary about my technique. I was the only student who had any real progress to show. I was also able to teach Hannah something she did not know, about the edge stitch that I ended up using to keep my ends neat and the width uniform. And it turns out that she uses a different method to bind off than the one that Geri mentioned and the one I learned off knittinghelp.com - I like the one I used better.It was good because Hannah had us practice some basic stuff some more, showed us how to weave in the ends, yada yada yada. Last evening, I added the fringe and tada! When I showed A the finished scarf this morning, he told me that he was proud of me...how sweet.
I have started on my next scarf, which uses a chenille-like yarn knit with two strands on size 19 needles. It is going to be really soft and fluffy, but those big needles feel really awkward right now - like knitting with baguettes!
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