take your needles to class

Over thanksgiving, I hope to finish the border on the "Summer from Kansas" shawl. Over the past month or so I've been taking it to lectures and I was surprised last week to find that I was nearly done with the body. And now I am really done with the body, and on to the edging, which just goes to show you that a few moments are never wasted even if they are between scribbling notes on statistical techniques and the Maya collapse. Given the long weekend, maybe I'll even have pictures! Amazing how much more quickly things grow on #6 needles, compared to size 0.

I really miss my blog. The irony is that I have a lot to say-- you know, new characters, funny stories, new ideas, and so on. Most of it is not textile related and when I opened this space I told myself this would be truly focussed on textiles, since my interests there are wide-ranging enough to be entirely confusing anyway. I'm tempted to write at length about grad school in another space. a) it would help me get it off my chest b) it might be helpful to other older students struggling with this adjustment. But a lot of the incidents and characters are recognizeable and one of the points about writing is that I don't want to censor too much. How do you deal with such things? Do you, as a blogger, have concerns that people you describe will be recognized and that this might reflect badly on you? Do you have private, password-protected blogs for particular friends? How do you deal with the line between cyber-anonymity and possible real-life acquaintance?