Reality check...

So today I go into work, and I’m all excited about my email from Debbie Stoller, so I start talking:

“You remember my sock pattern, you know, the one I designed and didn’t get into Knitty – that online knitting magazine, well yesterday I got an email from Debbie Stoller – she’s really big in the knitting world – she wrote Stitch and Bitch – and was instrumental in the whole feminist knitting revival thing that’s going on at the moment – and she wants my pattern for a page-a-day knitting calendar. I’m going to get $25 for it.”

Colleagues’ response:

!?

And so I start thinking through what I’ve said. Nope – there isn’t a single bit that doesn’t make me sound like a total nutter. But hey – they’re all maths teachers – what do they know?

eleven comments:

Wow, Wow and wow! This is fantastic! Fame at last!

Big Ruth () (link) - 15 September '06 - 19:19

Anne that is fantastic!! Congratulations!! I am really happy for you!!

Mandy () (link) - 15 September '06 - 20:59

Just tell ‘em that Heffers is stocking the 2007 edition and then they might realise just how big a coup this is! x

rosie () (link) - 15 September '06 - 22:05

Congratulations!

Mary-Lou () (link) - 15 September '06 - 23:10

I would think that maths teachers would be great knitters! They just need to be converted.

lorinda () (link) - 16 September '06 - 00:23

Sounds perfectly normal to me. But then I’m a knitter.

jessie () (link) - 16 September '06 - 13:02

They’re weird. You’re normal. It’ll be fine!

Daisy () - 16 September '06 - 15:02

Very well done on your sock inclusion! As for your colleagues, well, YOU know it’s important..

Fiona () (link) - 16 September '06 - 15:24

Heh, I get similar responses at work if I try to talk about any of the interesting things in life. :)

Chris () (link) - 17 September '06 - 03:24

Well done Anne!!!! I just wanted to say a quick hello and congrats on being published – again! I’m now back online and moved into the new place. Lots of fun, but it’s Ours… Now if I can just get some time to knit!

Kate () (link) - 17 September '06 - 15:17

Congrats! I understood the conversation perfectly, so it must be them.

Thanks for your comment on my blog! I too am grateful for a space that I can call my own and the opportunities to meet people I would have otherwise missed.

jae () (link) - 20 September '06 - 00:23

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