So, with a combination of a free brazilian bikini pattern and the crossed-bar stitch, I made my first summer top:



Oh, and I got the yarn from an extra-large sweater that I bought for 12 bucks at Value Villlage and frogged (rip-it! rip-it!). And you guys thought that crocheting was for making granny squares... sheesh. (craftster post here)

Sorry I haven't been blogging lately. I think I'm taking a break from pondering, so I don't have much to say. After exams, my brain says, "okay, that's enough cramming and pondering and near-exploding for the month. take a break!" (My brain doesn't capitalize, sue me.) If I still lived in a place with a piano, I would be playing a lot, because it uses such a different part of your brain and that's so relaxing in the midst of academia craziness. Instead, I've been crocheting like mad, which has a similar effect and has the added bonus of being portable and (relatively) cheap.

I had an idea for a wicked linguistics thesis a while back, one that I could easily spend 2-5 years on. See, I've been thinking about sex discourses a lot lately, and whether porn is really bad and whether it devalues women and one of the things that I, as a linguistics student, wonder about is the dialogue in porn. So, who's to say I couldn't take 2 years and watch and transcribe a lot of porn dialogue and analyze the discourses being brought up and constructed? Plus: porn rentals would fall under thesis materials, so I could use my funding to pay for it. Another bonus would be telling my fundamentalist relatives what I'm doing in school these days when they ask politely at family gatherings. Hahahaha... "Well, Aunt Diane, I watch porn over and over because transcribing is hard work and you have to pause and rewind every few seconds (this is aggravatingly true), and I analyze whether "you like that, don't you, you dirty girl?" is a power-play or not. I compare and contrast gay and hetero porn, that made by men vs. women, etc..." It's rather tempting, and I know the Linguistics/Women's Studies departments at York would go for it and make sure I was well-funded.