Gaps
This weekend, I was forced to reckon with the upsetting fact that there are several gaps in my life that need to be attended to quickly.
Yarn Gap
There is a large gap in my yarn stash -- the DK-weight yarn, which seems to the weight of choice for most of the summer knits that are on my list. As it happened, Joe had to check a job in Mt. Kisco, NY. This happens to be just a short journey down the Taconic State Parkway to Pleasantville, which happens to be home of Purls of Yarn. Jo Sharp Soho Summer Cotton DK, the yarn of choice for Cherry is on sale at Purls of Yarn.
Naturally, so much build-up could result in nothing but let-down. I left the store with one ball of yarn, slated for my One Skein Secret Pal. I have the notion that my Cherry should be some peach or soft terracotta, but the only suitable color for me was an olive green. Cherry needs to be lighter and brighter than that. Not only are there gauge gaps in my yarn stash, but there are color gaps as well.
Film Gap
Lukas was given a homework assignment to watch a World War I-related movie and write about either the film or how the war was portrayed in the film. I immediately suggested A Very Long Engagement, which had been the very movie that was in Joe's mind. Lukas may well be the only student who chose a French film, but I was at a loss to think of any current or classic "Hollywood" films that cover this period of history.
This amused Joe, who likes to tease me about my film gap. Those classic films of the 1970s -- Shampoo, Serpico, Last Tango in Paris, Cinderella Liberty -- I have not seen them. A teenager at the time, I was too young to attend these movies without an adult, and I never "caught up" with them later in life, in spite of two film history classes at university. I am still walking around with a large hole in my knowledge of American film history, but it has not caused any severe embarrassment as of yet.
Book Gap
If my film gap is a decade wide, then my literature gap spans several decades and two continents. It is quite unimaginable that I am this old but have not read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, The House of the Seven Gables, Ethan Fromme, Oliver Twist, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre, the list goes on. TTruth be told, in my younger days, I dismissed many of the Austen and Bronte novels as romance novels, rather like an earlier day version of Jackie Collins and Danielle Steel. Over the years, I did learn that I was mistaken in this assumption, but again, I never really filled in the gaps.
A Note of Thanks
I do want to thank everyone for their compliments and kind comments on the haircut. I am overjoyed with it -- particularly in the upkeep category. It is near to zero in terms of effort required to style.
Yarn Gap
There is a large gap in my yarn stash -- the DK-weight yarn, which seems to the weight of choice for most of the summer knits that are on my list. As it happened, Joe had to check a job in Mt. Kisco, NY. This happens to be just a short journey down the Taconic State Parkway to Pleasantville, which happens to be home of Purls of Yarn. Jo Sharp Soho Summer Cotton DK, the yarn of choice for Cherry is on sale at Purls of Yarn.
Naturally, so much build-up could result in nothing but let-down. I left the store with one ball of yarn, slated for my One Skein Secret Pal. I have the notion that my Cherry should be some peach or soft terracotta, but the only suitable color for me was an olive green. Cherry needs to be lighter and brighter than that. Not only are there gauge gaps in my yarn stash, but there are color gaps as well.
Film Gap
Lukas was given a homework assignment to watch a World War I-related movie and write about either the film or how the war was portrayed in the film. I immediately suggested A Very Long Engagement, which had been the very movie that was in Joe's mind. Lukas may well be the only student who chose a French film, but I was at a loss to think of any current or classic "Hollywood" films that cover this period of history.
This amused Joe, who likes to tease me about my film gap. Those classic films of the 1970s -- Shampoo, Serpico, Last Tango in Paris, Cinderella Liberty -- I have not seen them. A teenager at the time, I was too young to attend these movies without an adult, and I never "caught up" with them later in life, in spite of two film history classes at university. I am still walking around with a large hole in my knowledge of American film history, but it has not caused any severe embarrassment as of yet.
Book Gap
If my film gap is a decade wide, then my literature gap spans several decades and two continents. It is quite unimaginable that I am this old but have not read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, The House of the Seven Gables, Ethan Fromme, Oliver Twist, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre, the list goes on. TTruth be told, in my younger days, I dismissed many of the Austen and Bronte novels as romance novels, rather like an earlier day version of Jackie Collins and Danielle Steel. Over the years, I did learn that I was mistaken in this assumption, but again, I never really filled in the gaps.
A Note of Thanks
I do want to thank everyone for their compliments and kind comments on the haircut. I am overjoyed with it -- particularly in the upkeep category. It is near to zero in terms of effort required to style.
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