Blog archives for March, 2009

Is this really my first FO of 2009?? Ummm. I suck. Yeah. Also, please excuse the not-posting-on-Friday-like-I-said-I-would. I took the pictures on Friday, does that count? I know, I’m a bad, super-stressed, ultra-procrastinating blogger. But I’m feeling a little proud of myself, I bound off on my Witchy socks last night and they’re soaking right [...]

Congratulations—you’re in Vienna, minding your own business, and suddenly you wake up and find out it’s snowing. In the middle of March.

Okay, your last winter was spent in Minnesota, where the snow didn’t thaw until the last week of April. Your spirit isn’t too shattered as you kind of expected this. Still, you were looking [...]

Yes, this is what I started crying to people today as I realized that the bulk of what I’d eaten today was Süßigkeiten—sweets. Chocolate and cake in large amounts TASTE fantastic but they leave me feeling discombobulated and light-headed if they’re the only things I eat. Other problem: it is so much easier to reach [...]

How do you forge your adult identity when there are so many public links to who you were as a child?

I told Brenda that I’d post today, so I had better follow through. I had meant to post at the beginning of the day, you see, but then got caught up and am not sure how relevant this post is anymore. But still.
Rebee had a super idea yesterday: what if we put together a small [...]

Hello blog and blog-readers,
Sunbeam Soapbox is taking a short break (obviously?). I arrived in Austria on Sunday morning and classes started Monday morning. Therefore, I’ve hit the ground running. In times like this I tend to have lots of nervous energy but don’t knit or write or do anything still. I need to pick classes, [...]