Because There’s Nothing More Dignified Than a Digital Device Dressed Like a Sheep
Posted by Moose on June 4th, 2009. Filed under: My brain needs a drink.“This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.” – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that I’ve been thinking a lot lately. This is what I do: I think. My tombstone will read: “Here Lies Moose. She Thought Entirely Too Much.” If the tombstone is big enough, it will continue: “In the End It Killed Her, This Thinking, As She Forgot To Look Both Ways And Was Flattened By a Number 79 Bus.” If my tombstone is commissioned by my brother, it will finish with: “Bummer.”
The tone of some of my thoughts are summed up well in the above quote. (From a book I just now finished reading.) (It delighted me to the tips of my unpolished toes, if anyone’s looking for new reading material.) I’m rather averse to looking stupid – as are most of us, I presume. But I’m realizing how much that’s holding me back – from projects to relationships to doing random things that strike my fancy, like climbing to the top of a hill in a tutu to have a tea party or writing an epic poem about feuding ferrets and sending it to the New Yorker. (Though, honestly, I’m generally quite happy to look like a fool in a tutu.)
So, yes. I’m thinking about who I want to be and how I can reasonably get there from here. It’s actually quite fun. I’d recommend it.
That said, sometimes a person wants an escape from all that tiresome thought. Which you fine people thoughtfully provided me. Announcement: I’ve finished knitting the phone sweaters! If you asked for one and sent me your address, it will be winging its way toward your house very soon:
Your phone can thank the Guatemalan angora bunny farmer – and my snobbish yarn proclivities – for its new blanket.
Thanks for being such nice readers and friends – and thanks for letting me think in your direction.
June 4th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
I was thinking…uh oh…wrong beginning huh!?! Oh well, let me start and end with, “those look warm, comfortable,and safe.” Lucky phones.
P.S. If my tombstone is commissioned by my brother, it will finish with: “Bummer.” …….. I Like, I Like.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Funny you should mention being flattened by a bus, as I was just nailed by a cab (see: your inbox).
Also, I totally want to borrow that book when I return if it isn’t a library one.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:55 am
I didn’t realize you were serious about the offer. Also didn’t know if it extended to those, like me, who read your blog daily, comment infrequently, and live across the country.
I would love a MoosePhoneSweaterVest, should the opportunity present itself again. And would pay the postage. And for the yarn. (They are cute!)
June 5th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Zoh.Mi.Goodness!! I am so excited!
xox
June 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
How am I NOT getting one of those. wah wah WAH!
My iPhone is so COLD now.
(thank you for linking to smittenkitchen.com … holy CRAP I HEART that website now!)
June 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I want a phone sweater! I love in Chicago! My phone gets chilly!
June 6th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Just curious . . . do you think while you knit or even knit while you think? Or are these mutually incompatible?
As you can guess, my knowledge of knitting is a bit tattered and moose eared.
June 8th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
How did you like the Guernsey book? I was thinking of getting it from the library.
June 9th, 2009 at 3:21 am
Two things:
1. Guernsey is one of the books I brought with me to Moz! Thank goodness. Can’t wait to read it. (Seriously, this is the bad thing living abroad in a non-English-speaking country. No English-language bookstores around the corner. I paid heavily, literally, to bring books with me.)
2. Those sweaters are unbelievably adorable.