Twists of Fate

Canby, OR is probably too far for my little car to go anyway. I realized today that I won’t be able to go to OFFF and take the classes I had hoped to get to attend. It’s just too much money to justify at this point in time. Classes at any festival are likely going to be too expensive for me for a while. I am wondering if it would make more sense to see if there’s someone around that does private home lessons. I have a wheel here that they can use, and we could set up stuff side by side in the living room and have at it. I really think that might be a better way to go in the long run, though of course you get to meet all kinds of groovy people at the festivals.

Not much knitting going on at the moment. I did, however, add Big Girl Knits and Knitting Nature to my library tonight. Brother mine is in town for more classes, and we went to sushi and then hung out at a bookstore for a while.

I worked at that bookstore (B&N, the *enormous* one in UVillage) when I first moved to Seattle. It’s really strange to me, how far I’ve come in nine years. I’ve had a job nearly continuously (even during school, beginning in jr high) since I was twelve years old. It was always about what was available, what would fit into my schedule, and what I could talk my way into. I’m reviewing my resume of the last seven years, most of which were with the same company, and trying to look at it from an outside perspective. I don’t really feel that it captures “me” (though of course what resume really can capture a person?), but I do hope it shows that I’ve steadily worked my way into progressively more challenging positions. Nine years ago I worked as a cashier in a bookstore. Up until last year, I was a Project Manager for multi-million dollar software projects. This past year, I helped a very, very, VERY small Financial Sales Information team ease through the merger of two companies whose combined revenue was half a billion dollars a couple years back.

Life is weird.

I do, however, feel bizarrely encouraged that I can figure out this knitting thing I’m working on. If I, Shy!Woman extraordinaire, can survive going from working with a team of eight women to helping manage a department of over two hundred total strangers overnight, I can figure out what I need to do with this project.

Oh and hey, if anyone wants to look over my resume and help me figure out how to put more emphasis on the project portions of this past year, rather than the financial things, I’d appreciate it hugely. Drop me a line at my email if you’re interested. :D