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Continue reading →: (almost) new semester, (almost) new sweater. Also, cats.Tomorrow will be my first day of teaching in Spring Semester, 2026. I have a much lighter schedule this semester (only two classes, literally half as many credits as I was teaching last semester!) and I’m feeling pretty good about what I’ve got planned. I always update readings, etc a…
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Continue reading →: on the 12th day of 2026We’re not even two full weeks into the year and already the federal government has taken actions that seem designed to instigate both a World War (the Maduro kidnapping, all of the posturing around Greenland) and a Civil War (the occupation of multiple US cities by ICE, and the murder…
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Continue reading →: on the 5th day of 2026Well, it’s been a heck of a year so far, hasn’t it? Not even a week into 2026 and it already feels like too much. I went to bed Friday night still feeling the joy after watching & reading everything from Mamdani’s mayoral inauguration in NYC (including a performance of…
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Continue reading →: new hat, new year(‘s eve).It’s the last day of 2025, and I have a new hat! I finished the grafted bind-off this morning. Pattern: Porty Hat, by Ysolda TeagueYarn: Schoppel Wolle Zauberball Crazy in “Cool Botanical Greens”Needles: Size 2 40″ Chiaogoo circularsTime to knit: A few weeks After knitting a Porty Hat for both…
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zwischen den jahren
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Continue reading →: zwischen den jahrenWell, it is in fact Monday (evening), though we’re in that strange part “between the years” (“Zwischen den Jahren”) where there’s really barely a reason to know what day of the week it is! But since I’ve been attempting to stick to the “Monday Musings” format, I figured I should…
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Continue reading →: Winter solstice 2025We’ve made it through our darkest night! At least, that’s true in the literal sense; thanks to axial tilt, the days really do get brighter and brighter from here. Whether that’s true in the more metaphorical sense remains to be seen…it’s been pretty grim, with mass shootings and a maliciously…
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Continue reading →: farewell, fall semester.As I write this, I have finished grading all that there is to grade from Fall ’25, which was quite a bit given that I had an extra class above what I’d planned on having. Which for anyone following along means that I was not finished grading when all of…
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Continue reading →: hello, winter.The flip of the calendar to December seems to have set off winter here in Western NY! My final week of teaching this semester also included copious amounts of clearing snow and ice off the car, too much driving in the snow in the dark, and an awful lot of…
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Continue reading →: back to decemberHello, again, December! It somehow feels like we got back around to December way too quickly and simultaneously like January ’25 was a lifetime ago. Time is just so weird these days. Like…how do I have a 14 year old kid? Our incredible kiddo has grown into such a brilliant,…
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Continue reading →: monday musings (back on schedule!)Well, as might be obvious from the above photo, I was in fact able to swatch up the Tussock in “Bright Verdigris” with the Good Wool in “Tree Frog” between last post and this one, and I think it looks lovely; the change in color is subtle, a bit brighter…
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Continue reading →: weird wednesdayIt felt so strange to not post anything on Monday this week; I’ve kept the “Monday Musings” series going since Inauguration Day in January, after all! But this is a weird week: I needed to be on campus bright and early on Monday to run a workshop, so lost my…
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Continue reading →: pockets of goodnessIt was a bizarrely unfamiliar feeling to wake up the morning after an election and read the news and feel something close to joy; I realized last week that I had literally not had a morning-after-the-election like this one since *2012* (after all, even in 2020, when Biden and the…
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hello, november
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Continue reading →: hello, novemberWell, I have successfully executed the needle/yarn transfer optimization that I talked about in my last post! As is obvious from the above photo, I’ve finished the first of kiddo’s Pressed Flowers Mitts (though haven’t woven in all of the ends yet), and I was then able to repair her…
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lifo, fifo, Fomo, jomo, yamo, yolo?
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Continue reading →: lifo, fifo, Fomo, jomo, yamo, yolo?I promise I’m not losing my mind and spouting random syllables, I’m just tickled that all of the above four-letter acronyms were relevant to conversations I’ve had in the past week! And I’m amused by this photo of my current “pile” of projects, in that it contains two Wardies (one…
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treading water while juggling
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Continue reading →: treading water while jugglingWell, as I said I’d do in my previous post, I started kiddo’s Pressed Flowers Mitts early last week, and after getting a few rounds into the mosaic knitting section, I realized that I was going to have a problem with contrast; the original purple and the blue were basically…
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Hello,
I’m whitney
I’m a knitter and all-around crafty person, a maker to my core, a violinist who also dabbles in ukulele and piano, a linguist/cognitive scientist who teaches writing, a progressive Unitarian Universalist, a parent to an amazing kid, a lover of cats and of all things related to language and the mind.
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