With my graduate course done, my thoughts now turn to the academic writing I’m planning to do. This includes a biography of a twentieth-century mathematician, but it also includes related shorter articles that I’m planning to write in order to build up some scholarly credibility. For one of these articles I have been setting up Flickr albums to store my photographs of annotated pages from one of this fellow’s books. It has been an exhausting process, but since I have several copies of this book via Inter-Library Loan and their return date — next Monday — is looming large, I thought that I had better get started on the documentation part of the project.
Unfortunately, the nature of this first paper — reader annotation — makes it particularly vulnerable to sabotage by anyone who might feel inclined to mess with library books. So I won’t be giving out too many details. If, though, you know me personally and would be willing to serve as a field researcher for the project, please email me. All this would entail is going to your nearest university library and checking to see if anyone wrote in their copy of this particular book. I have an evaluation form that you could fill out and return to me, which would let me know if that copy of the book deserves further investigation.
In other news, I also wrote a poem this weekend. This may or may not be a natural consequence of my practice of reading poetry every day for the last two or so years.
I have no new typewriters this week. I do have two that I need to clean and adjust so I can re-home them with friends. This afternoon I ventured onto Facebook Marketplace to look for a twin headboard with a bookshelf that I wanted for a project; I wound up messaging two people who were trying to sell old typewriters. I will let you know how that works (or doesn’t work) out.
This week I have covered just a few more pages in The Mists of Avalon, and I have added a couple of columns to my Impossible Read tracking spreadsheet so that the percentage-read of the current book will be automatically calculated when I update the current page number. (When that percentage becomes 100, the cell will turn a cheerful green. Huzzah!)
I do NOT plan to enter the total pages for any book until I have begun to read it. This is what we might call a “disincentive.” I would rather know how many pages were in this project after I have completed it.
Knitwise, on the scarf project I have reached the end of the light grey section in the center and moved to the “closing stripes” on the other end, starting with the other half-skein of Light Rose Heather. Which, as I just discovered by checking the ball band, is actually just called Rose Heather.
I have the yarn and needles waiting for the next project, but I haven’t cast anything on yet. I would prefer to finish the scarf before I begin something else. (Plus, 72 stitches of k1p1 ribbing, anyone? Carried on for enough inches to be able to turn up the brim of a hat?) I have 200 grams of this yarn, sent to me by an Australian Ravelry-friend for my 42nd (ha!) birthday, and that should be more than enough to make a hat. Maybe a hat and mittens?
Is it time for me to look through my mitten patterns? If you have one to suggest, please leave a link in the comments.
Chocolate Sheep 