Sexy nerds

Looking at the stack of things I've knitted for family gifts this winter, I can't decide whether I've accomplished a lot or whether I've spent an inordinate amount of time knitting what seems like very little.

The yarns are nice, anyway. A combination of stash and newly purchased things, so some of it is more to the taste of the recipient(s) than to mine. But you know, that is in the nature of gifts.

Had lovely rides today. The only way I could have had more fun riding my bike would have been to have 20-year-old knees instead of the well-aged ones I have. Oh well. "A girl does what she can, sire." Cute and quotable, that Drew Barrymore.

We're in for a big snow bomb again, so I will be trying out my new rollers. Hopefully not falling all over the place, but - well, there is gonna be a learning curve. I'll also likely be riding in some of the snow tomorrow, trying to get in a little outdoorness (and maybe a puppet show) (really) before I get trapped in the house again. I am not loving this winter.

I am having bigger thoughts than these, and I keep planning on telling you about them, but apparently the percolating process is still in effect. Either that or I'm just not ready to share my toys yet. Mmmmm, brain toys.

Bill Nye would love those, no?

He makes me want to add a separate list of people I have crushes on who are nerdy rather than hot but whom I can't help but love anyway. Carl Sagan's right at the top of that list. Leonard Nimoy. Andrew Stanton. Joss Whedon. Um, my ex. (yes, that would be Boywich) (big nerd, that one. and very sweet.) (no, I don't have a crush on him anymore; I am just saying, that's the category he falls into)

This Mars Rover driver who works at NASA and whose name I haven't a clue about (I've seen him in a documentary). Reading this, you may well be thinking that I myself ought to be appearing in someone else's sexy nerd list...

Also, and I am not sure what, if anything, this means - I keep having these dreams in which my cat has cloned herself and become many Kitwiches, and I am trying to sort out which one is the right one.