Jon's Knit Blog

The Ten Minute Blog

So you might have noticed Em's grand idea to limit blog writing to a ten minute entry. So I'm trying that this evening. It's 12:13am as I start typing this, and when it gets to 12:23, I'm simply going to stop. I'll try and type the whole way through, so no hyper-links, except Em, who I already rechecked her URL before I started typing this entry.

And of course, I have to say that now that I've given myself a time limit for tonight's typing, I seem to be making more typos than usual. Weird, huh?

Anyhow, I am really sad that I missed the Harlot the other night at Lord & Taylor. How depressing is that? Right? And what's more depressing is that I won't make it to MDSW next week. And all the cool knitbloggers are going to be there. Arrgh! I should, like, come up with a shopping list and entrust someone brilliant to it. I need some really nice shetland wool, actually, because I bought a book that Ms. Harlot recommended ("Latvian Knitting." Look it up if you want to see it that bad) and there's a great sweater in there which I want to make for the baby who's going to get the Rosetta blankie. Of course, it'll be for when she's older, but still, I am going to want her to have it. It's in two colors of shetland wool. I'm thinking pink and brown because I'm very interested in that color combo right now... Of course, it has to be the right pink and the right brown, so how on earth can anyone choose it for me. Oy.

Anyhow, I have an important lesson to teach you: Do not attempt to be able to have the same attention to devote to your knitting if you are also watching "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBCAmerica while you're knitting trying to knit. It is just a whole heck of a lot harder to pay attention to yarn (especially to twisting lots of colorful pieces of yarn around each other) when you're guffawing over lumberjacks and the like. My God, Monty Python is still just about the most hysterically funny thing ever. I mean, I saw "Spamalot" on Broadway, but it's just not as funny as when it's with the original Pythons. Although, if you're a Python fan, I highly recommend that you check out the new show "The Hollow Men" on Comedy Central. They're hysterical and clearly inspired by Python. And C.U.T.E.

Speaking of spelling things out, I really want to see "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Anyhow, my topic for tomorrow will have something to do with planning and choosing my travel knitting. I'm leaving for New Orleans on Wednesday (the reason I'll miss MDSW), and I won't be back until next Wednesday. It's for a convention, as I've said before. Even though Em thinks that I'll be spending more time eating beignets or drinking Hurricanes. She's right about the beignets. But wrong about the hurricanes. I'll be drinking Old Fashioneds, thank you very much.

The last time I had a convention with this crew was last year in San Antonio, and I got drunker than I had in years. Like, college level drunk. Rip roaring hangover drunk. Puking drunk. Fun. Incredibly fun. And yet... not so fun the next morning!

Eeek, only one more minute left to do this.

And I've hardly talked about knitting at all! Well, I do knit, although not tonight. I'm taking a break from the Rosetta blankie and not really in the mood to pick up anything else. And I had a few things I had to surf through on the web and I have a bunch of errands for which I have to get up early tomorrow morning.

And a guy who I think is cute today, who is British, referred to me as "cheeky." And I found out that he winks at me, but not at a buxom female colleague of mine! Too bad I know him through work so it can never go anywhere.

That's 10 minutes, kids. Talk to you soon!

editor's note: just in case you are curious, 10 minutes of typing chez Jon means 696 words and 3700 charaters. That's almost 70wpm. I was once timed at over 90wpm at a headhunter's office. She was flabbergasted.

Posted by Jon at May 3, 2005 12:23 AM