brainylady

Crazy busy

During the next week, I am supposed to submit the first draft chapter of my thesis, and I have to give a thirty-minute presentation on it in a colloquium. Then I have to get another funding application in the following week. Ai-yi-yi. I'm so sick of looking at my computer screen. Plus I've been having terrible allergy attacks for the past few days, so I've got that hot-dry-eyes thing going on.

No time for knitting, then, but I did manage a bit last week. The divine and oh-so-generous Ms. Em sent me some Knit Picks sock yarn, and I'm seeing if I can squeeze a pair of ankle socks out of one ball of Dancing:



You know what isn't very fun? Grafting a toe with yarn that is 7 percent elastic! Tricky.

It would be more sensible to knit a scarf right now than a pair of summery socks, but I was craving something simple, quick, and colourful.

Hey, have any of you (Canadians) seen the show "Talking Canadian" on Newsworld? It's on right now, but I saw it a few days ago, too. (If it comes on again, try to watch it. It's pretty entertaining.) Did you know, for example, that

apparently, Americans call a tap a faucet

we don't say "aboot," but we do say "about"; since Americans say "abaout," they hear us say "aboot"

words that are pronounced the same way in Canada, like "cot" and "caught," "stocking" and "stalking," are pronounced differently by Americans

and, shockingly, nobody outside Canada says they're "happier than a pig in shit"!

Mooky and I are amused: