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March 25, 2005

The LollyKnitting Interview

How did you and Georgie meet?
Back in ’87, I came to New York to go to NYU – I was seventeen. (This was pre-Ghouliani when the city was still scary and hip and cool). Before school even started I got a job at the Village Tennis Courts. Since I was young and nubile, I guess, the two (guy) tennis pros working there befriended me. And since I was living in an apartment dorm room with three Juniors instead of in a Freshman dorm, I really didn’t have any friends. So I hung out with the tennis pros – who were about 8-10 years older than me. Georgie was their friend and since I started hanging with his friends I guess you could say we were friends. Not really. But we hung out together. A couple of years later we REALLY became friends and about a year after that we started dating. The rest is history. We’ve been together since I was 20 years old (living together since I was 21). I just had my 35th birthday. You do the math. ;-)


Of all of your photographs, which one is your favorite? why?
Impossible. That would be like asking me which of my stories is my favorite. I can show SOME of my favorites. For today, that is. It changes all the time!

And pretty much all of the pictures on my kids website.

What is the knitted item that you are most proud of?
Probably Shedir. It was the most challenging knit. And I knit it for a woman, a friend of a friend, who has cancer and was going through chemo. Or possibly the first real project I finished (and the second thing I ever knit). It’s a 5’x6’ afghan that I knit for Georgie – it’s a four color slip stitch pattern with a crochet border. We use it all the time on the sofa. No peasley scarves for this new knitter! No – I had to make something LIFESIZE.

Who is your favorite photographer? favorite photograph?
I’m not such a good person to answer this. While I’ve had “formal” training in writing and have been systematically exposed to genius writers, the photography I’ve done all on my own. So I don’t know a lot of photographers. One I do know, and greatly love, is Wright Morris. Not only was he a photographer, but a National Book Award winner and American Book Award winner (the later for Plains Song.) He successfully put his photography and fiction together – and was known as a photographer’s photographer and a writer’s writer. Two designations I greatly aspire to. Here is an excellent article on him, and a link to some of his photographs. I've heard that Morris's barn photos were the inspiration for So Long, See You Tomorrow, by William Maxwell (one of my favorite authors and favorite books.)

My favorite photo? Changes like the wind, but I really like this one today:

Imogen Cunningham
Magnolia Blossom
1925

Do you have any interest in working in a library again?

I don't know. When I graduated with my MLS I had an overwhelming sense of self-preservation (for lack of a better word.) I had a PROFESSIONAL DEGREE. To me, this meant I was eminently employable. So if I was a single mom with three kids, I'd be able to support my family. This is an incredibly empowering feeling. I'm very far away from the library world these days - but once a librarian, always a librarian. I would never count out that work - it may be a means to survival one day, and it was something I enjoyed very much. (That's of course assuming W. doesn't close them all by the time he's out of office.)

Thanks Lauren! Lots and lots of fun!

The January One Interviews

Kate:

1. In perusing your blogger profile keywords I find: rugby and revolution. How are you going to start the next rugby revolution?
2. You were blogging before they were called blogs. What’s your take on the current state of blogs – knit or otherwise.
3. Explain Re-Evaluation Counseling. Or not. Whatever you feel most comfortable with. ;-)
4. Your field is Biological Anthropology right? Can you explain that? Do you know the subject of your doctoral thesis? Can we know?
5. Okay Miss Union Organizer – where’s Jimmy Hoffa buried? Or is he really dead?


Abby:
1. What does it say about you, psychologically speaking, that you have listed twice (20 and 59) that you have a psychology degree?
2. Which famous person would you most like to stalk (assuming you haven't already) ?
3. How many skeins of Koigu do you have in your stash? Favorite colorway?
4. What's your favorite blog button? Could be one you made yourself or one someone else made. (By the way, want to make me one?)
5. Now that your hubby is knitting, do you forsee any great competitions or dare I say it, fights over stash?


Renee:
1. So, thanks to Rock Chick, we know Bruce is a knitter. What's Bono doing in his spare time, craft-wise, while he's not rocking out with Koffi or waiting for that call from Stockholm?
2. Who do you prefer: Ebert or Roeper?
3. You've seen A LOT of movies - favorites? What should I see that I probably haven't? Do you ever watch movies more than once?
4. How many Vikings have had their numbers retired? Can you name them?
5. When it's super cold in the winter, is it true that you can walk underground in Minneapolis and never have to come up to ground level?

BONUS QUESTION FOR ALL:
Money's no option, skill level's no option - what's your dream knitting project?

If anyone else wants to be interviewed, leave me a comment saying so!
Thanks!

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