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November 12, 2004

Domino effect

Thanks for your help convincing the frog that we won't suddenly hate each other if I knit him something. A surprising 70% of you believe that there is a curse. I didn't think it would be that many. I think the frog is reassured. I'd like to make a sweater for him by our first anniversary. Take note that I said that so you can laugh at me in ten and a half months. It would be nice to at least make him something little before Christmas. A hat maybe? Mittens? Idunno.

Yesterday was a holiday here too, except most French people use a public holiday as an excuse to take Friday off and have a four day weekend. So the frog and I went to see the Turner Whistler Monet exhibit at the Grand Palais and I walked around knitting while I looked at the paintings.

Oh goodness. This isn't knitting, but I have to tell you about it. I'm watching Domino Day on a German TV channel. It's a big thing where all of these kids come from all over the world and spend two months setting up millions of dominos in a huge gym in an attempt to break a world record. They put them into arrangements of pictures and patterns and then they let a celebrity knock down the first one (Shania Twain, this year) and then cheer (and cry when it doesn't work). A French guy is weeping now because he couldn't set up a bunch of dominos fast enough for this extra challenge they were doing. These people might actually be sicker and goofier than us knitters. I have to admit that it's kind of fun to watch, but at least at the end of two months of knitting, we usually have something to wear, rather than four million pieces of plastic to pick up.

Posted by kate at November 12, 2004 04:17 PM