Donna Druchunas's Blog

I am so far behind on blogging! I finished two lace shawls since I got back from Europe, and I've been writing and daydreaming and visiting with friends and reading and and and oh yeah, working.

Last week I was a Photoshop World in Las Vegas, working in a booth for my day job with Media Lab. I sort of wanted to go and sort of didn't, but I had an amazing time. I didn't realize how much teaching knitting classes had changed me. I am so much more comfortable with myself and less shy, it's much easier to talk to people -- one on one or to a group -- and I actually enjoyed working in the trade show booth. On top of that, I hadn't seen some of my colleagues in several years, and I also got to get together with an old friend who lives in town. So all in all something that I was halfway dreading, turned into a great experience. Of course, now that I'm back, it's taking me another whole week just to get caught up. And the bookkeeping mess is still a mess, although very slowly starting to show signs of improvement.

I guess that's just a big excuse for not blogging. I need to work on my next book and I'm not sure how much I will be blogging for the rest of the year. But when I don't put my thoughts online, I miss it. Strange thing, isn't it? I used to be such a private person and now I am spilling my guts to the world. Oddly, I don't mind so much that strangers read this blather. Sometimes, though, I am embarrassed when someone I know says they've been reading my blog.

Right now I'm listening to music. Or, rather, in between writing parts of this, I'm listening to music. I have a really hard time with music. I love it, but it consumes me. I can't really just have music in the background. I have to stop and listen and close my eyes and let the music flood into me. Once someone told me that it was better to listen to music you are familiar with when you want to work and have music playing in the background. But that doesn't help me at all. I still fall in, head over heels, like Alice down the rabbit hole.

So perhaps I've just filled up the screen with nothing. I promise to get pictures of the knitting soon. Enjoy the day.