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Okay, I admit it. I am officially a knitting heretic. My crime: I find that apogee of complicated color-work knitting, the sangraal, the you-know-you're-hardcore-if-you-knit-it sweater, the "Mary Tudor" rather tacky. Yes, that's right. Tacky. [Sigh] I know that I will be banished into the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth for this, but I found most of the Tudor Roses collection disappointing.

Some reasons why life is good today.

This is a part of a piece on the King James Only movement (which is something of a straw man since King James Only Protestantism is a fringe group par excellence), but it still sums up the process of knowing God beautifully. I've removed the straw burning in order to highlight the useful observation.

From Ship of fools:

I'm in a bit of a bind right now. The job that I've held for the past two years is a limited-term appointment: I'm currently training my replacement. I've really enjoyed this job, but I'm not actually all that sad to move on. Unfortunately, I'm at a bit of a loss for other work. I thought that I would be able to finish my dissertation this summer and defend before the start of the Fall semester, but I've spent so much time job hunting that I've really kind of shot myself in the foot as far as that goes. I thought that would be okay because one of the jobs I applied for is a PA-ship in my department and it was as close to a sure thing as is humanly possible. As expected, I've been offered the position, but there are a number of huge catches. Some of them I knew when I applied, but others are a complete surprise.

(Reprinted from my blog over at hwaetageek.wordpress.com. This is really the more philosophical/theological part of my post about "The new me". Yes, I like British punctuation. Get over it.)

Getting hwaetageek back up and running has really kind of helped me put some of my life in perspective. As I've been restoring archives and deciding on content structures so that I can theme everything properly (we're still in stock theme territory, but this one is at least tolerable) I've read some of my old posts. It's very interesting how much I've changed in the past few years. My dissertation still isn't done (that's no different), but I'm back to actually loving what I do.

I just can't seem to stick with a platform. I won't go into the complete saga here, but hwaetageek has had some major upheavals. But we're back. Again. This time mostly likely for sure. I think. [sigh] anyway, here goes nothing.