Stalking the Elusive Sweater Yarn--Q'pla!

[lwood]

Thanks to a tip from zoe_me, I found the right yarn at Purlescence, in beautiful downtown Sunnyvale. While they're not ordinarily open on Sunday, they are today--for an anti-Super-Bowl party, where all yarn is 25% off. Oh, and in sufficient quantity that I needn't fret about a run on the stuff in the next couple hours.

IT'S ON SALE IN MY HOUR OF NEED REALLY OBNOXIOUSLY LOUD WANT! IT MUST BE A SIGN!

*!grin!*

dpaxson is willing to lend her wheels to the effort, which is nice as otherwise it's not likely I'll have the sweater by Pantheacon. One knows, however, that "done by Pantheacon" is sufficient inducement in her world, as it would be in mine, and so.

For during-con knitting, I shall have lovely, talented, very portable, non-bulky...socks. They may be the only non-bulky thing going to the con in my luggage, unlike, say, the several devotional shawls and other things for my Show and Tell Pagan Fiber Arts panel at P-Con.

-- Lorrie

PS: "Q'pla!" For the scanty handful on my flist who are insufficiently fannish (...!?), it's Klingon. For when one wants an enthusiastic ejaculatory interjection for "Success!". Also usable as a parting statement, like wishing someone good luck. I find it a satisfactorily heathen (and unashamedly modernist) sort of thing.

Comments

[wednesday]

Now you have me wondering

1. if there's a vocal Klingon contingent at P-con; and
2. if the appropriate officiants at Star Trek: The Experience could be persuaded into performing whichever model of pagan/heathen/woo-woo-spookeriffic ceremony best suited their prosthetics.

(Tone of icon not wholly correct, but is only Trek one I have.)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

Well, She Who Runs the Con, pentaclemoon, has the Klingon Empire's sigil tattoo on her shoulder, from a time when she, snowwy, mendou, and several and sundry others in the community put on a Klingon ritual drama thing called "The Rite of Decision" one Pantheacon some few years ago.

The same people are deeply entwined in planning and production of Pantheacon and Baycon, the area's largest science fiction/fantasy convention. Both cons wind up sprinkled with a certain amount of "Which Con Is This, Anyway!?" sprinkles--dpaxson or I on a "Religion and Science" panel could be either place, although starting from rather different premises.

I love my life. 8-)

-- Lorrie

[knittingwoman.livejournal.com]

glad you found the yarn:) I don't know much Klingon but my #1 boy is a star trek FAN.
I'm always left shaking my head in wonder when you talk about dpaxon as a regular old person rather than a FAMOUS AUTHOR as I had always thought of her until I started reading your LJ:)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*laugh* That reminds me of a story...

Once upon a time, a young lady came to Greyhaven's open Sunday tea. Now, at the time, Marion (Zimmer Bradley) didn't live here, but was over frequently, including this particular time.

The young ingenue went through damn near the whole afternoon of "Marion please pass the milk" before quite twigging that this was ZOMG THE LADY WHO WROTE DARKOVER AN' MISTS AND !!!

After flailing and meeping, she still couldn't quite believe it. Her response: "Why--you're just like a real person!"

I an assure you from personal observation that FAMOUS AUTHOR dpaxson puts on her pants one leg at a time, and will, when I mention this, point out that she has nothing on MZB, as one has never quite made it as a Famous Author until stalky fans are shoving books under the partitions of the bathroom stalls for your signature.

When telling that story, she usually also points out that this means she didn't know Marion very well, as Marion was almost exactly unlike a real person...

-- Lorrie

[friggasfemme.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm ravenvitki's wife. Just wanted to say 'hello' and check it was okay that I friended you.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hi! Go right ahead!

-- Lorrie

[dr-beowulf.livejournal.com]

I hope this won't throw you into a tizzy and make you flounce out of LiveJournal. . . which, given my recent track record, it very well might. . . but the correct spelling is "Qapla' ". That apostrophe on the end isn't a missing vowel, it's a glottal stop -- a momentary stoppage of the airflow, as in "uh-oh" and "nuh-uh!".

In Hawaiian -- or Hawai'ian -- that apostrophe-like character is called the 'okina (Unicode 02BB) and looks something like a displaced ogonek.

Aren't you just thrilled to know that?

[lwood.livejournal.com]

It was past two AM when I wrote that, having been up all night the night before for a vigil, and with a few hours' nap between.

We should count ourselves lucky I didn't put a "u" in. 8-P

-- Lorrie

[illuviel.livejournal.com]

Yes, but has anyone translated the Havamal into the original Klingon? ;>

(This is my only Trek icon -- "Art thee heathen, Spock?".)