Hello, again, hello

I've had this blog for a while and haven't really used it. But I decided I'm probably as entertaining as at least half the bloggers out there, so let's do this thing. Although the title indicates that I knit, I've recently been venturing into the world of crochet, because doesn't every girl dream of being a hooker? However, after spending half my lunch doing a project wrong, I spend the other half frogging what I've spent the last week creating. I couldn't understand the pattern and lost the motivation to figure it out. So now I'm in search of something else to make with this yarn. I'll let you know. Never go out of town without your spouse, because when you come home you'll find out he has committed to you attending a fancy party. The hubby and I are going to a 'gala' Saturday. That should be interesting. I'm not sure I know how to act. I'm going to try and not eat with my fingers and use the right fork, but I won't make any guarantees about keeping my shoes on. If I get to my table without breaking an ankle, the evening will have been a success. He is renting a tux and I have these horrific ideas in my head that it will smell like a wet animal or be covered with bloodstains or something. In library news, I'm trying to figure out LibCal for our meeting rooms. Librarians tend to be pretty tech savvy, but I somehow ended up working with two of the biggest tech-phobic librarians around. So it would seem that since I own an iPad, I know how to do all things computer-y. We are so behind, though, that our current meeting room application doesn't even ask for email, but LibCal requires it. That is making the input of existing reservations a little challenging. Don't forget to fall back and change the clocks Sunday. Don't ask me which way to change them because I never get it right. Check your cellphone, it will tell you.

As I sit at brink of starting my first official librarian job, I decided to create a place to talk about my hobbies, work, and passion. Fortunately for me, these things all intersect. Well, maybe not the "purr" part as much, unless you count the large number of cat hairs that are attached to my clothes on a daily basis.

My current knitting project is a Ravenclaw scarf. I hope it will be finished in time to wear it to the next movie, so I can be a total nerd. If I finish in time, I'm planning to add a house beret. In order to cement the nerd factor, you know.

I'm not sure why I like Harry Potter so much. I mean, the books are excellent examples of storytelling at its best, but it's more than that. The alternate reality that is the magical world is described with enough detail that even without the movies the reader could imagine living there. I think that most all of us can identify a character, be it a main character like Harry or a secondary character like Luna, and find some part of ourselves in them. But with all the fantasy trappings stripped away, it remains a classic story of good vs evil, bravery, friendship, and strength. And don't we all just wish we could apparate instead of messing around with planes, trains and automobiles?