Category: APLS!

As a student, I thought this month’s APLS blog carnival topic about education would be right up my alley—more so than the other carnival topics that I haven’t participated in. And I should participate—after all, it was partly my input that turned into the APLS blog! Since I’m encapsulated in education, day in and day [...]

Today I had a vegan lunch. After reading Chile’s post about veg*nism, I went on to read the site she linked, which said that basically you should have a starch as your focal point and embellish with vegetables. Also, “white” starches are nutrition-less. So instead of white jasmine rice with my stir-fry I had steamed [...]

I had to run to the store today (okay—I walked. Picky, picky) for some Lebensmittel (groceries).

I’ve been trying to reduce my chocolate consumption, and I have to say I’ve done a fantastic job. But I need some now. It’s been that kind of week, and I am weak. So I allowed myself to buy some [...]

Ugggh. I am exhausted. I’m going to have to take a quick break from the FO posts today; although, hey look, it’s only 9pm and I probably could muster the energy… but really, I’d rather save the time for actual knitting.
I could tell you exactly when I had free time today, and what I did [...]

Uhh, no knitting today. Instead, a question: Why aren’t the price of plastics (including acrylic yarns) going up? Why are we still treating them as “cheap”? I mean, the price of gas is skyrocketing, so why isn’t the price of other plastics? Aren’t they all made of crude oil? So what’s keeping the idea that [...]

All right:
I finished BSJ, with Sara’s help. (It really does pay to have a second set of eyes sometimes! I can’t believe I made such a mistake; I thought I was doing well.)

Look! It's… half a BSJ??

Oh wait, you wanted to see the real thing? Well, have an awful picture.

A whole BSJ!!

Yay! Yes, awful picture, [...]