Rant...

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Okay, so mckenzee wanted to watch Black Books for something like the nth time, so I put aside my reading (Colonial Fantasies: Towards a feminist reading of Orientalism) and got out my yarn and Learn How Book in an attempt to teach myself to knit for the FIFTH OR SIXTH time. I got as far as the slip knot, then realized that a) beginners shouldn't use extra fuzzy irregular poufy yarn and b) the Learn How Book must have originally been written in Swahili and then translated into English, because IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE. There are ESSENTIAL steps missing! (Okay, I confess, I bought it at Kmart for $1.) Then, my self-confidence lying in shards around my feet, I had to FORCIBLY GRAB the yarn from my boyfriend, who was threatening to teach himself to knit and who would probably have succeeded, being way more talented at these things (he had to help me with the slip knot, for goodness sake...he made that moment of shame ONLY SLIGHTLY better by saying, "I was in boy scouts"). Wah... Now I need to head to the store this weekend and buy shorter needles (that don't jab me in the eye) and normal yarn, then try again. I left my copy of Stitch and Bitch back in Berkeley...does anyone have a good link to recommend that has step-by-step start-from-scratch illustrated knitting instructions?! I *shall* overcome!