I had such bad cramps today that I actually had to get on the big ottoman to assume a birthing position and push. I’m not even frigging kidding. Then I got in a hot bubble bath (a lovely new honey bubble bath from The Healing Garden) and read The Moviegoer for a few hours. I haven’t read that book since junior high. There are fun parts to it - New Orleans, movie references, quirky southern female characters, ennui, existentialism. There are bad parts to it - casually ingrained racism, some elements of misogyny (both of those are reflections of the time and region but they’re upsetting nonetheless), quirky southern female characters, misinthropy. The cramps are better now but they’ll be back soon I can tell.

I was thinking though..a lot of knitbloggers have been complaining about pms and cramps this week. Do you think we’re all getting on the same cycle? That’s known to happen with women who live together. Wouldn’t that be weird if it happened over the internet through daily blog reading?

Hell all the women on my dorm floor my freshman year got on the same cycle by early spring. They actually had to start getting housekeeping in to empty the garbage cans on the weekends because there was an odd smell that people just complained about it until I pointed out that we were all on the same cycle and it was the garbage in the bathrooms that smelled. You can imagine how those little Southern sorority riri’s reacted to my pointing out the fact that they had natural human functions like menstration. Oh the horror!! So, yeah housekeeping came in on the weekends and the smells were taken care of.

What’s funny is the college where that dorm is located is mentioned in The Moviegoer. Not that surprising really because Walker Percy was born in Birmingham. But fun to run across anyway.

So back to my odd thought. Like I have any other kind. Wouldn’t that be weird? If all the knitbloggers somehow drifted to having the same menstrual cycle just like we tend to do when living together? Kind of neat really. The interesting female commradery moon cycle magic of it or something.

I finished my toe up two socks on two circs last night! Yay! It was incredibly cool to finish both socks at the same time. Vppt done! No second sock syndrome. Just a pair of socks. I’m too lazy to get photos of them right now. I still have photos from the walk on Sunday in my phone waiting to post. I’m feeling awfully sluggish right now. Focusing on the house and knitting. And faux labor on my ottoman.

When I’m at the computer I’m dealing with Dyeorama issues. Very happy with the results so far. We’re at 88%. 246 out of 277 people have sent their yarn out. Not bad really. The nagging emails will begin tomorrow. Oh yes count on nagging.