knitwise

buddy sent me this self-survey email things i'd sent him like... let me think... i was still living on clark crescent... i was dating jason... i was in college... so i was 19 so in 1999, so 7 years ago. he forwarded it to me because he found it in his old email account or something. it was pretty funny. i'm amazed but how much i've changed and yet in many ways i haven't changed at ALL. here's some examples:

favourite thing to do on the weekend: sleep
what is your most prized possession: my bellbottoms
favourite movie: reality bites
what's your favourite band: the beatles and u2

those are some that are definately still true, others weren't true at all anymore, and others we still true but slightly different. i find this one particularly interesting since i hung out with dawna tonight for the first time - best feeling in the world: the excitment of a new friendship or experience. as i walked down the street to my car i had a bounce in my step and that sentence popped into my head. it IS neat to get to know new people, which is actually ironic as dawna pointed out tonight that its pretty funny that we've been at next almost as long as each other and we'd never really met before. i had a really great time, she's really interesting and was EVER so helpful with my knitting. after showing her my bag i feel much more pleased with it. part of me is bothered by that, i think "why do i need people's reassurance that it looks ok??" but really it think its more i'm able to see it through someone elses eyes and not be so critical of it. she also taught me to purl properly since melissa pointed out the other day that i twist the wool when i purl. after talking to dawna i'm all pumped to rip-out my current knitting job and restart with a more interesting stitch.

i had an interesting day at work. our president, ray, is visiting from pittsburgh and we had these small departmental meetings with him. after the meeting fran called me and said "your comments to ray were very polite and charming" i thought that was nice of him to say. he was referring to the fact that when i was asked who i deal with in beijing and i said "lisa chen" he said "oh lisa, you'd really like her. you'd get along very well. you should meet her" so i said "well you'll have to send me over there then". hahahaha, i'm telling ya, i'm gonna travel a lot through my job or die trying.

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