Hey everybody, I just wanted to let you know that I just syndicated the RSS for my other blog. It's not graceful. The posts are long and full of photos, but I don't know if there's any way for me to get them behind cuts. But, if you want to subscribe, it's middle_knitter. (And if anybody knows how to make it more graceful, let me know, huh?)

And, hey, if you use a different RSS aggregator, the feed for my blog is located here.

That is all for now.

So, research is going well. It's harder than I expected, reading all day, and sooner or later I need to figure out what my project is . . . I've been reading a lot of Greek tragedy, though, and NOTHING is a loss when that's the case. Also, Prof. Casey has started doing some Greek with me. It feels really good to be doing Greek again . . . I'm starting to actually get excited about being able to work on translations instead of reading all these silly articles and books.

In my free time, I've been doing a lot of knitting and crafty stuff, which means that the new hobby blog has been seeing more action than the LJ. So, you should all go see the things I've been making! Speaking of the hobby blog, I'm looking into ways of crossposting my posts there to LiveJournal--stay tuned for updates on that.

Also, via CuteOverload, I just discovered The Daily Puppy, which . . . oh my gosh. I just sat here and gaped. It's got the overwhelming cuteness, and it appeals to the dog lover in me. (I've always been more of a dog person than a cat person.) The only problem? It's crashed Firefox on me twice in the past few minutes*. I'm all like, "zomg, adorable puppy!" when suddenly! "Firefox has encountered an error and must close." What gives, The Daily Puppy? This is my sad face: :(




* Granted, since it is Firefox, I can just open it back up and pick up browsing where I left off. The "restore session" feature has been my favorite ever since it came out. I constantly have tons of tabs open, and it's so nice to just be able to close the browser when I'm ready for bed, and be able to pick up where I left off. I often use it to open links I mean to blog about. They sit there for days or weeks in my tabs before I finally give in and close them. One such link was a page about knitting leprosy bandages for India--I couldn't make this up.

I've become so reliant on this feature that when it fails--say something opens in a new window and gets minimized, so that I end up inadvertantly closing my main window without closing Firefox, thus erasing all of the tabs I have open--I become very upset.

I spend most of yesterday and part of today (when I wasn't reading about Dionysus), wrestling Movable Type to the ground, pinning its arms behind its back and pulling its CSS, and the result? the middle knitter, my new hobby-blog!

First and foremost, no, this doesn't mean I'm switching away from LJ. LJ is very good at the things it's suited for: a place to vent the days frustrations, a place to ramble, and most importantly, a place to keep in touch with people. But, I've been hankering for a "real" blog for some time now. I wanted some place I could post very long entries with lots of photos, without feeling compelled to use a cut. I also wanted a place I could link to when I leave comments places, something more suitable than my LJ. (And, yes, I know that I did try keeping a school blog, and failed miserably, but I really thing this on will survive--it's exactly what I need.) Also, I felt a little guilty to be paying for webspace that I wasn't really moving. (Speaking of which, I may eventually actually buy a domain name for the blog, but it's not in the budget right now. Anyway, if I do buy on, the arraskysong.com/middle url will still work.)

Mostly I'll be posting about knitting, but I'm also going to use it to talk about my hobbies in general--I tend to hop around from one hobby to another, and that'll give me a place to talk about them, or post relevant stuff. There is a feed, so in theory we could set up a LJ feed so that you all would be able to read it through your LJs, but in my experience those can be a little finicky, so I'm going to wait and see if there's demand.

So, you should all go visit, and maybe leave comments? (I like comments.)