Valerie made it back to the East Coast from the Midwest and has written about our lunch at 318.
Jennifer’s having a contest to come up with themes for FiberFlix. Leave her a comment with your theme idea by midnight PST, November 20, and you could win some sock yarn.
You may remember the Biteberry Yarn Contest, won by Anne of Paper Tiger Knits. Anne has suffered through all of the ends in that poor skein of yarn and has finished her cats paw lace socks!
Wayward Elf of Zurich has a nice post up about work and science, including some links to recent research. Make sure you check out the article about how praise affects kids, even if you don’t have kids – it’s an article that definitely has me thinking.
Reading Update
The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman. Don’t judge this book by the silly title – it’s a surprisingly good detective story, set in the not-too-distant future. I think Hartman does an excellent job of projecting societal trends (primarily group polarization by interests), then highlighting how breaking down that polarization is critical if society is to survive. But I probably wouldn’t even have checked this book out if it hadn’t had a glowing review by Charles de Lint…
Charlie All Night by Jennifer Crusie. This light romance, set at a small radio station, is another of Crusie’s rereleased Harlequin titles.
Life Update
Thanks for all of your birthday wishes! I had a very lowkey and pleasant birthday hanging out with my family. I got some Sugar’n'Cream cotton to keep up my bib production, a cute basket, a few decks of cards (I just had Ranma 1/2 cards, which were impossible to use), a Caribou card, a pound of Caribou Obsidian (if you’re keeping track, you realize I will not be buying coffee for quite a while!), a 2008 black cat calendar, 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders (it has some really cute patterns), and a Barnes & Noble gift card. Thank you, family!
I got nothin’ else today. I got sucked into adding projects to Ravelry. I’ve been a member since April, but have only been adding new projects to it… until yesterday. Where did the weekend go?! Heck, where did the year go?! How can it be Thanksgiving in just a few days?!
Anyway, perhaps this cute picture will distract you… 
“I do not understand this ‘time’ of which you speak, Mom, but I’m worried about it! I hope it had its collar on before it went away so that it isn’t gone forever.” -Mayhem
You can never have too much coffee, I say!
Looks like you made out really well for your birthday! Are you going to give us a peek at the black cat calendar?
I’m with you on the time thing…What’s up with that?!
Yes May – time is an elusive thing!
Oh I completely agree. Where on earth did this year go? Thanksgiving? Really?? Actually I can’t talk, I’ve been listening to Christmas Carols for two weeks straight now. Why are Mondays so, so, blah? It’s ok May, time will be bake on Jan 1st, only smaller and kitten like.
or back rather (pregnancy brain)
Yes, that Ravelry can be a time-sucker. It seems no matter how much I add to it, I can always find more…
A very fuzzy kitty picture. This week is “k” week at school. Neatnik was very happy to tell me that kitty starts with k.
Glad you had a nice birthday.
And I agree that it’s surprising that it is already Thanksgiving – I love the cat picture and caption!
I didn’t realize that it was Thanksgiving this week until I read somebody’s blog. Help!
They say time goes more quickly the older you get…from where I am I can tell you that’s true. You’ll never catch it May no matter how hard you try.
Chris- I was going to ask you, where did the year go?
…and what planet am I on?
Yes, exactly where did the year go? I need a do-over.
Ravelry is responsible for many hours of lost knitting. I love it, but boy does it get me dreaming big!
My – you HAVE been busy! I really like the Meilenweit socks you’re working on.
It’s still so weird to me to hear you Yanks talking about Thanksgiving. Ours is long, long past…
Thank you, Miz May, for the reminder that perhaps we mere humans pay a little too much attention to the clock thing. We need to take a page from your book.
Ah, you are on Ravelry — my, you have knitted a lot of socks. Guess I knew that but it is impressive to see them all in one place. With the bibs
Yeah, I still think of 2007 as some year kinda in the future. And soon it will be past. Yikes.
I bet May and Chaos are really missing you. Sounds like you had a lovely birthday!
Your hair looks fabulous in Valerie’s picture! Are you doing something new???
Oh, I suck! I’ve been sooo far behind I missed your birthday! I’m glad it was nice. How many pounds of coffee do you have now? I noticed a plethora of ChaoticChris Projects in my Friends Activity area
this year can go to hell. 2008 better have it’s crap together.
Happy Belated Birthday! And welcome to the Ravelry time-suck!
May looks like she’s in a time warp.
I’ve been wondering where the year went too. I can’t believe Thanksgiving is only a few days away. Ah Ravelry. I really need to do some updating myself.
Happy belated birthday!! Ravelry is like knitting coated in crack…stunningly addictive. I have at least two pages worth of potential projects in my queue and I’m idiotic enough to add more. Oh how I wish I could call upon a patron saint of startitis! At any rate, I hope that you had a great birthday and that you are having a lovely day.
Happy Belated Birthday!
I think May is anticipating turkey. Just a thought.