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Urge to kill rising…
My knitting nemesis is leading a class today, and I keep overhearing snatches of conversation that MAKE MY BLOOD BOIL.

• “When we’re all dead, no one will knit anymore! Young people don’t want to knit!”
• “How in the world would I have ever learned that without you to show me? They print all these fancy books, but no one can learn something so difficult from a book.”

And this was a classic:

Knitter: Where can you get cheap wool for a rug? Back when I was young, you’d never use expensive garment wool for a rug. I just want something cheap.
Me: (with a laugh) Big W.
Knitter: Oh, but I don’t want acrylic!
Nemesis: (stage whispering so she thinks I don’t hear) LINCRAFT AND SPOTLIGHT HAVE INEXPENSIVE WOOL…

Give ’em hell, Gough!

We are officially *on*, folks! Tapestry Craft will be hosting a book signing with renowned knitting author and designer Nicky Epstein in two weeks. The details:

When: Friday, September 14, 2007 at 3:30pm
Where: Tapestry Craft knitting department, 50 York Street, Sydney

We’re going to have as many of her titles available to buy as possible, and they’ll all be sold at the recommended retail price. So if you’ve ever wanted to get them, this is the time! Hope to see you there.

Update: Just heard from Nicky’s PR people, and she wants to do an hour-long demonstration for us! So the demo will be from 3:30-4:30, and then she’ll sign books for people.

Job News: As the girls at SnB know, the Company-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named rang me last night with the all important news. I’d been stressing all week to hear whether I’d been accepted or rejected. The reality, it seems, is neither. Sometime in the past week, they did some “internal restructuring” and decided that they don’t actually need a permanent person to do this job after all. They want a temp for a few months. For a wild second, I considered it. It would be a way to get my foot in the door, I guess. But then reality set in. “I can’t do it,” I said. It would seriously screw up any plans to buy a house, and it’s not really any kind of step forward career-wise. My HR contact admitted that she was expecting as much. HOWEVER, there’s another opening in the company that suits my skills, and I told her that I’m willing to switch tack and go for that one. She’s going to put me forward for it. Hopefully all the interviewing and work I’ve done will be applicable and I won’t have to start over at step 1. So all in all, it’s a strangely empty result, really. I didn’t get rejected; in fact, I got the impression that they definitely wanted me. It’s just that the position I was going for isn’t there anymore. We’ll see.

Shane Warne, you are dead to me. DEAD TO ME!

I’m over at MetaFilter defending High School Musical to the haters.

I hate waiting. I feel like Calvin waiting for his propeller beanie. *sigh*

George Bush Aussie Dress-Up. Heh.