why, oh why did i let mom distract me from homework all weekend? sunday we went to the new yarn shop on printer's row, loopy yarns. she bought a hat book and bought us each yarn to make a hat out of it. hers is an indigo chenille chapeau, mine is a "sweater for the head" with little arms you can tie up or leave floppy. the yarn is a soft worsted wool, and it's lacey's laces, chicago dyers. i know i've heard someone from there speak in a class. can't remember which one though- either chemistry of textiles and dyes or fundamentals of textile design, probably. it's a color called watercolor and is a varigated earth tone rainbow- bright magenta, camel, mustard, mint, soldier blue, plum, and back again. i feel pretty passionately about it. i'm a little worried about the size- i'm making an extra large to fit over my dreads, but the 128 sts around just seems likes so very many. i hope it fits me well with all my hair this winter, and i can add elastic in the ribbing and make it mushroomy to fit my small head next winter when my hair is gone. it's going much slower on the #4s than that sweater which i'm just racing along with. have done the armhole shaping on the back. it will be stalled for a while, as it's too big to carry on the train again. i'll eventually watch some of these movies and finish it off, then i'll be able to do the sleeves.
then last night, on the way to the dentist, i decided to see the purifoys while in hyde park. it's so funny- i come in, take off my shoes, and walk out to the kitchen, waving to jon as i walk by. christie and i just sit at her kitchen table, drink tea and talk. sometimes lily's in bed, sometimes napping, sometimes racing around with her toys. i'm constantly amazed by how much i love being friends with christie. i mean, she's always been married and been from texas, but since we've met she's bought a condo and had a baby, and i've stopped being straight, stopped being a christian, and moved to the north side. what could we possibly have in common anymore? well, enough stuff that i don't think we'd EVER run out of chit-chat. i've said it before, if i had a baby, i'd probably raise it very similarly to the purifoys. and let's face it, i still read children's books, still get toy catalogs, am told i should design for children's theater. you'd think i'd actually like children. since the last time we talked, christie had read phillip pullman's his dark materials on my... recomendation is perhaps too strong a word. but she felt the same way i did about them. the magical world, the stunted ending. we talked about writing, me in fiction writing and her on her disseratation. she got a research grant and so she and jon are going to london for a week. art, family.. i told her about l, as i am wont to do. she asked about l's job, and i told her, and made the joke about how l hates the environment and i hate poor people. and christie said, "well put the two of you together and you'd get a republican!"
i laughed very hard. when thinking about mixing l and me, i have to say, a republican is not what one would imagine one could get. but i guess it's possible! earlier, christie had been talking about trying to decide whether to put lilly ahead, since her birthday is also in september. i told her my parents had held me back because i might want to be on a sports team and it would be better to be the oldest, rather than the youngest. she laughed very hard at that, and said in all the thinking she's done, and all the factors she's considered, that's one that has never struck her!
so can i just say it was an enriching, mind expanding, eye opening, soul satisfying, book list lengthening experience for both of us.
but then, then i had to come all the way home, go to bed, wake up early, work alone all day. and now i have 6 pages to write for good ol fiction writing. grrr.
but first, i have to buy something. see, there's this train ticket to detroit that i promised....
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