Knitting

I didn't take very many pictures at the 4Cs SnB, but I did finally take them off of the memory stick. Here they are! I never cease to be impressed by the creativity of a bunch of Rhet Comp folks.

Pictures are below the jump. Click the title of the post to get the pictures.

My friends (and I use the word loosely) down at River Knits have taken up a challenge. In order to get me to wear a pink shirt (in public) they are knitting socks for charity. If they all get their socks done I'll wear the damned shirt, but I won't like it!

Now Elizabeth is opening up the challenge to whoever wants to join. So here's the deal...knit the socks and I'll post a picture to the blog.

The details of the amended challenge are here.

With Cs and playing catch up on grant projects and research since I got back there hasn't been much time for knitting. Tonight I got back to the entrelac socks and only have one more tier of squares before I start the heel. I have heard heel horror stories, but that may be just what I need to put my mind on something other than the madness of work for a minute. Here's what the sock looks like right now.

In order to try to facilitate knitting related activities at future conferences and just to give us someplace to talk to one another, I have started a Google group for knitting rhetoricians and compositionists (at the request of others). If you're interested in joining in on the fun feel free to use subscription box below or keep an eye out for the posts on WPA-L and techrhet.

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I was going to take some time to blog about the conference and tell a funy story about trying to get a flight out of NYC, but it's not funny any more so I don't even want to talk about the conference right now.

In a nutshell I went to the Delta website this morning to do online check in and found out that our later flight out of NYC had been cancelled and that they had moved us to a noon flight (nope, nobody told us). The noon flight was then delayed until 2:20 then 2:30 now 3:08. We are really starting to wonder if we are ever going to get out of here. That may be a negative. I just paid 8 bucks for wireless access to keep me entertained because I packed my ipod in my checked luggage and Lisa didn't (yep, that means that she is in her own little world).

We did have our SnB on Wednesday and I'll post pictures when I get them off of the camera. Unfortunately my own session was about the only one that I went to because I am on Executive committee and that means I give my life to meetings at the national conferences for the next three years. Hey, I'll do what it takes to do some good.

I was also re-elected co-chair of queer caucus, but I think that was because no one else wanted the job. I am actually excited about that because now I'll get to do some CMS stuff for the caucus.

Ok, I am writing more than I meant to because I really just wanted to sulk, check email, and read other peoples' blogs!

Just in case video games aren't enough to stave off Alzheimer's I decided to learn a new knitting technique as well. And because I can't do anything the easy way I decided to do a fairly difficult pattern to learn it. I'm making these socks:

Entrelac socks. I'm not making them knee highs of course, but there is something about the socks that made me really want them! After I cussed a lot and depended on the kindness of friends I got them up and going:

I am still working on my research, but there is nothing really new that I am really want to share yet. If you want to learn more be sure to come to my C&W session in the "D".