I sometimes wish that a book was a legitimate reason for taking a personal day.

I've been reading The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon. I was reading it on the bus the other day while on my way to work. During this short bus ride, the book went from pretty damn good to OMG this is incredible. And then it my stop came up, and I had to close the book and enter the salt mines.

Why is Law and Order, in all of its various incarnations, so damn addictive? Seriously, someone should do a study. I'm an episode and a half into a SVU marathon, and I foresee that I may be here for several more episodes.

Karen Allen (aka Marion Ravenwood from the Indiana Jones movies), has her own line of (expensive) knitwear:

http://www.karenallen-fiberarts.com/

Or it will make you hate me. Either way, don't say you weren't warned:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AnN-LVsILI&eurl=http://www.dlisted.com/node?page=2

I picked up something very dangerous yesterday on my lunch break. Barbara Walker's First Treasury of Patterns.

You might not see me for a while.

I come to preach to you today about Mary Doria Russell. She is a wonderful author who only has three published books so far. Two are science fiction (The Sparrow and Children of God), and the other (Thread of Grace) takes place in Italy during World War 2. It's as if she's writing just for me:) I've read The Sparrow and Children of God both in the past month, and I'm a quarter of the way through Thread of Grace.

She does have another novel coming out in a few weeks called Dreamers of the Day. It's about how France and England divided up the Middle East in the aftermath of World War !. I can't wait.

( Tudors season one, spoilage herein )

Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles- Like the movies, except lame.

I got my first secret pal package today! And I was all SQUEEE! I got a Superman, Star Trek and ST:TNG comic books, a Captain America cheese piece, a little Hello Kitty calendar, a Hello Kitty pencil, matted pictures of Yoda and Darth Vader, a orange tabby notepad, and a color printout of some Star Wars patterns. Thank you secret pal!!!!

Lots of naughty language contained therein, possibly NSFW:

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_got_what_america_needs_right

There Will be Blood-This was pretty good for the most part, and then it fell apart in the last half hour or so. The ending just kind of made me say huh? Whatever is making critics go crazy for this movie I'm just not seeing.

Juno-Once it stopped trying to so hard to be hip and quirky, this was a really funny and touching movie.

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( Because almost everyone on my fl has done this )

Cats no doubt spend a great deal of time lamenting the fact that they do not have opposable thumbs. However, the feline species has not consider that lack of opposable thumbs means that they never have to worry about knitting #@*&^+%! thumb holes for gloves!

I hate knitting with cotton. And I loved smoked cheese. Especially smoked gouda. Okay, I just plain love cheese, but especially smoked gouda.

Let me know if you need any more information about me.

I am making excellent progress on my fingerless gloves. The pattern I’m using is fetching from the spring 2006 issue of knitty. The pattern calls for cables; at first, it was a bit tricky to make cables on dpns. But I’m getting the hang of it. I’m a little proud of the fact that I’m getting over my dpn phobia with this project. I’m getting some practice with cables; I’ve only done them once before and I didn’t do them properly

I bought the new Blade Runner dvd set. You get four versions of the movie, including the so called final cut that was recently released. The final cut has three commentary tracks. You also get a making of documentary that is almost three hours long I think. That’s a whole lot of Blade Runner. I haven’t seen the movie in about ten years and it is still amazing. Except for the cheesy prog rock/synthesizer soundtrack.

I made white Russian cookies last night for my office’s cookie exchange. These are basically chocolate chip cookies, but with white chocolate chips and kahlua. I’m going to toot my own horn and say that these cookies rule. I put a good amount of kahlua in the batter; it’s a good thing alcohol bakes off otherwise my cookies would probably get you drunk.

cat_macros is full of the awesome. That is all for now.