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Finally friday

  • Jul. 24th, 2009 at 2:38 PM
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The yarn for my deadline project has finally arrived! Hooray! Now I'm going to have a little knitting race with myself.

Sorry, I can't give you a better picture. But isn't my new project bag nice?

And we still have no news on potential new baby chickens. Since I don't remember exactly which day she started nesting I'm not too worried. And since the first mama hen was on the nest for about 48 hours after the first baby hatched I just have to accept that if she's still out there she'll come home when she's ready.

My plans for this weekend involve a LOT of knitting. Maybe some canoeing (Neil can do the paddling) and definitely a trip to the yarn store (because I don't own all the needles in the world yet) Oh, and I need to re-rack my apple/tart cherry wine so the big glass jug will be available for something new! Wine making doesn't take much active time, just lots of patience.

Next week I have a DNA conference in Burlington for three days. It's always fun to hear the latest new techniques, and this conference tends to have a lot more discussion rather then just the speaker speaking, which adds to the interest. Three days of conference knitting should be good for my project too.

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[info]mattiescottage wrote:
Jul. 24th, 2009 08:50 pm (UTC)
Conference Knitting Envy
I am so envious of you feeling comfortable knitting at your conference.

In my technical field, it would be considered rude to do anything else besides listen and participate--or maybe take notes. (I know I could knit at no loss to my participation, but other people don't know that.) They are surprised enough to see me knitting in the carpool on the way to the airport. (I tell them I do it for stress-relief. :-D)

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[info]ladysaphira wrote:
Jul. 26th, 2009 11:47 pm (UTC)
Re: Conference Knitting Envy
It helps that there are others knitting as well. At the national CODIS conference there are 4 or 5 other ladies who knit or crochet. We tend to sit near each other for solidarity since there's several hundred people at the conference. The large crowd also helps, since it means we're more anonymous and not making eye contact with the speaker.

I also knit in our lab meetings. I asked the lab director first to make sure it was ok. And in those meetings it's a small enough group (15ish people) that I can show I'm paying attention by participating in the conversation.

So at this upcoming mid-sized meeting I already have lots of precident. But I understand how hard it can be to break the barrier.
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