Snippets

First things first, let’s get it out of the way: today is Election Day in the United States. Yes, I voted. No, I won’t be saying any more about my positions.

I have started a project that is not blue. I hadn’t realized it until I looked at my profile on Ravelry, but all of my FO’s are blue. (To be fair, my last project was supposed to be blue because it is the giftee’s favorite. But the others are totally my fault.)

Unfortunately, the Not Blue Project is not very interesting yet. I thought it would be interesting enough to photograph by the time I got back from voting, since I expected to spend a decent amount of time waiting in line even though New York isn’t exactly a battleground state. But in a completely unexpected move, Fate decided that there would be no one in line to vote at 1:15 this afternoon. Oh, there were a few people in line for some of the other districts, up to about 5 or 6 in the longest line. But the 49th District was dead empty. Zero people. I’m not kidding. My polling place is just at the end of my block, too. I think I was gone from my apartment for maybe 15 or 20 minutes all told.

In other news, I need a job. I interviewed for one that I haven’t heard back from either way. I keep applying, but no one else calls me back. I know the economy’s bad, but why advertise that you have a position available if you’re not going to respond to those who apply? Grr. My reward to myself if I ever do get a job is going to be a set of DPNs. I want to learn socks and fingerless gloves. Everyone tells me to just use Magic Loop, but 1. I’d need to buy needles to do that too, since I only own 16″ circs, 2. Silver’s Sock Class uses DPNs, and that’s what I’m planning to use to learn socks, so it’ll probably be easier to follow the pictures if I’m using the same equipment, and 3. DPNs are both impressive and scary. If I can master them, even if I don’t end up liking them, it will fill me with a sense of accomplishment and pride.