Get out the scissors

No, not for yarn, but for my paper. I'm giving a paper at a conference Thursday based on a teeny portion of my thesis. It's called Definitions of Health in Canadian Women's Magazines and I discuss how the magazines construct particular notions of health through the articles (biomedical, biopsychosocial, lifestyle and health as the maintenance of femininity for the curious). I figured it would be easy to take the work I did for the thesis and just make it more chatty. Well, it's taking longer than I anticipated. I also have only ten minutes--five less than I thought--so the whole thing is going to be brief. People say cutting is easier than writing, but I find there's a point where you cut so much that you have to write a lot to connect all the pieces together. That's where I'm at. It'll get done, but whether I'll be happy with it is the question.

However, I didn't let the paper detract from my knitting too much (I needed to take frequent breaks today to keep things straight and sane). I kept to easy knitting and here's my one-piece short of Grace to show for it. I like how the stripes are going to work. This is a dropped sleeved garment which is why it's sorta wide--the drop shoulder actually makes a nice cap sleeve. I think it's a bit big, but I washed and machined dried my swatch today and it shrank a bunch, so I can modify the finished piece if needed (I even had the forethought to make it 2" longer to avoid making a bra top!)

I don't anticipate a post for the next two days, unless I decide to rant a bit more about my paper. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

Comments

[Rachael]

good luck good luck good luck! You don't need it, but it's just so exciting! Speaking about your passion and What You Know! Keep us posted on how it goes.....

[Lydia]

Best of luck with the paper and the thesis. Even in that quick summary you made it sound interesting, so you'll be wonderful. I'm so glad to hear that the thesis is so close now.

(And Grace looks great.)