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1. Signed up for the Knitting Olympics today. Not Ravelympics (too complicated, omg) but the *real* Knitting Olympics. I'll be [starting and] finishing a project I promised my sister over a year ago, Kate Gilbert's Wisteria - I've had the pattern and the yarn forever. Time to make it happen. (Let's pretend I don't have at least two other Very Important Projects to complete.)
2. A few weeks ago, I was approached by a company that imports a well-known brand of supplements and organizes lectures about nutrition and herbal medicine, asking me if I'd be interested in giving lectures. I said yes, and negotiations have now progressed to the point that they're going to start setting up their schedule, and I'm going to start drafting a presentation. I'm excited, because while at this time, all it's going to be is a gig (or four or five) this spring, there's been some indication that they're actually looking for someone as a long-term solution. Of the three people they're mainly relying on for lectures at the moment, two are self-proclaimed nerds and frankly not great at the whole speaking-in-public-loud-enough-that-people-can-hear thing, and one is a big-name nutritionist who's notoriously busy and hard to book (not to mention her presentations tend to be all over the place because she never has time to prepare). I'm cautiously optimistic, but think if I play my cards right, this has an excellent chance of spawning/becoming a viable job in the medium term.
3. We still have a metric shitton of snow, it continues to be cold, and I can't remember the last time I enjoyed winter this much. (A customer told me this is all just god's way of proving us wrong about global warming. Sigh. I don't even argue any more. It's like fighting windmills.)
2. A few weeks ago, I was approached by a company that imports a well-known brand of supplements and organizes lectures about nutrition and herbal medicine, asking me if I'd be interested in giving lectures. I said yes, and negotiations have now progressed to the point that they're going to start setting up their schedule, and I'm going to start drafting a presentation. I'm excited, because while at this time, all it's going to be is a gig (or four or five) this spring, there's been some indication that they're actually looking for someone as a long-term solution. Of the three people they're mainly relying on for lectures at the moment, two are self-proclaimed nerds and frankly not great at the whole speaking-in-public-loud-enough-that-people-can-hear thing, and one is a big-name nutritionist who's notoriously busy and hard to book (not to mention her presentations tend to be all over the place because she never has time to prepare). I'm cautiously optimistic, but think if I play my cards right, this has an excellent chance of spawning/becoming a viable job in the medium term.
3. We still have a metric shitton of snow, it continues to be cold, and I can't remember the last time I enjoyed winter this much. (A customer told me this is all just god's way of proving us wrong about global warming. Sigh. I don't even argue any more. It's like fighting windmills.)