Larocque and Roll

It’s still Wednesday somewhere January 11, 2007

While this won’t be the most random post ever, it’s going to come close.

For the last few weeks, we’ve been enduring warmish, unseasonable weather here in the “frozen” north. This is my third winter up here, and there have been precious few days where I’ve thought to myself, “Colder than a witch’s teat out there, it is.” [1] So, Sunday night it starts snowing - big, fluffy flakes. It’s all pretty and winter-like outside, and I should be happy it’s starting to look and feel seasonal out there.

Except…

Sunday night I watched “Perfect Storm” on the Discovery Channel, and they were focusing on the ice storm in Montreal a few years ago, and what could have made it worse. Lovely! Now I’m looking at all that beautiful, fluffy snow on the branches of the trees, and thinking, “what if it starts to freezing rain? What then?” [2]
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Looking back at my efforts to track what I read last year, again I failed miserably. At least I managed to make it to the June books before the end of the year. The problem is that I failed to record the books I read from October on. I have a quick list on a post-it note on the front of the notebook I use to track these things, but I’m sure I’m missing at least two, plus the one I read at the beginning of December, which I’ve totally forgotten, and the two I read over the Christmas holidays (The Time Traveler’s Wife - absolutely stunning; and A Brief History of the Dead - eerie and riveting). [3]

So I’m not sure what to do with regards to recording my reading progress. I could try and keep up with that blog, but only doing the books that really left an impression on me, and doing a complete, but brief, monthly list over here. That way, it feels less like homework and more like me telling you “you should read this! And here’s why!”

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I’d like to open all my windows and blare Sleater-Kinney’s “Entertain” to the neighbourhood. However, it’s -26 out there at the moment, and my laptop speakers aren’t all that powerful, so it wouldn’t make that much of an impact. But it feels like one of those songs you need to play loud and throw the horns at. Then follow it up with Le Tigre’s “TKO.” [4]

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Another thing I used to keep track of was what I was knitting. I know this because I was tagging my archives a few months ago[5] when I switched over to this site, and came across my works in progress updates. I should start doing that again, because I’m still knitting a lot, but just not showing much of anything. My most recent project?

This was supposed to be for my mother for Christmas, but I wasn’t finished. I’m well over halfway done the second sock now.

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Anyhow. That’s enough randomness for one evening. Maybe I’ll do some more knitting stuff tomorrow.

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[1] Yes, I talk like Yoda when I’m thinking to myself. Problem with that have you?
[2] All my fears are rational!
[3] I have a feeling there was another one in there, but it’s also been forgotten.
[4] Which I used to hate, but it’s really grown on me.
[5] Um, I’m still not done. I sort of crapped out during April 2005, I think.