adventures in boyhood

i’ll be posting some craft directions once pearl has an actual inventory again and i can try some stuff out.  until then i need to pay homage to another knittin’ fool.  this stuff is awesome.  really.  and he’s just so cute and hardcore you gotta love him.

www.coolboysknit.com

check it.

oh my god, like….

today the coffee disturbance is happenin’ early.  only an hour into my day.  three girls, one of whom is discussing her wedding at a sound level riveling that of a jet plane or rock concert.  we’ve already gone through how many flower girls she wants, the dress, that she’s "not the kind of girl that’s alwasy dreamed of her perfect wedding" (yet everything seems to be planned) and now we’re on to tents. now i’m going to transcribe so you don’t have to miss anything….

"but what we wanted to do was something like food that was like mexican, a mexican breakfast thing, and a columbian bakery and have them make different baked goods and have little signs that tells what it is and how it’s representitive of us and our life together.  and like have little things explaining and have, like, fair trade coffee, of course, and it will probably be a little more expensive than making it ourselves which we thought of.  we’re still trying to figgure out if the church is going to charge us for using their stuff and they have these brown chairs but they’re sooooo ugly so we were going to trying to rent chairs…."

i’ll spare you anymore  no no, one more.  "so the photographer is like a archiological photographer, or anthropological, or he’s like a journalist or something so they’re not going to be like your normal wedding photos.  i mean, he thinks outside that."

they’re chasing people out of the shop.  amazing.

ok, now i’m done.  so far i’ve had one customer exclaim at how riviting a conversation it is, and another guy ask if they could possibly talk any louder.  i should have given them cold coffee so the will NEVER COME BACK.

i’m still looking for the craft of the day, but it will have to be amazing to top the human digestive system.  i better get looking….

i’ve been myspace blogging more than friendstering it, and for those that visit both i try to mix it up when i write both places, but frankly, i’m not that interesting so don’t bother reading both blogs.  they’re the same post.

i’ve been trying to hook you good folks up with a craft of the day every time i post so you get something out of your visit, along with a look at the most notable coffee customer of the day.

today’s big coffee annoyance was not a customer, but rather the passive agressive memo from "janelle ketchem, co-owner jouvay java" as she likes to call herself.  it was all about closing duties and how they aren’t being done properly.  this is fine and in and of itself but it’s worded so rediculously that i can’t help but be annoyed and amused at the same time.  this is why i’m going to share it with all of you. 

"this memo serves as notification that the cleaning checklist will be reviewed every day and will be taken seriously.  please do not check off items from the checklist if they are not completed.  if something on the checklist cannot be completed, write an explanation on the back of the checklist with the reason as to why it was not completed.  the checklist should be worked on throughout the day, especially during the hours that the store is not busy.  please do not wait until the end of the day to work on the checklist.  "

now, this is all well and good, but it seems that once you point out in a memo that something is to be taken seriously you kind of loose credibility.  secondly, you can’t really do most of the stuff throughout the day when you’re not busy.  clean the espresso machine during the 11am lull?  great until someone wants a latte at 11:15.  clearly i have plenty of down time that i’ve devoted to finding the most amazing craft ever for you all to read, but any cleaning i do before noon at the earliest just gets fucked up anyway.  there, now i feel better.  and back to the loving place.

this weekend anna and i had these plans to go to a movie and a trans party at the william way and be all "community" orriented, but both were so bad in a uncomfortable freshman orrientation way that we left.  somehow we ended up at an apartment with three gay men drinking pink elephants and listening to olivia newton john records until three am.  how do i get myself into these situations….

and now a link to the most amazing craft ever.  a hand-knit model of the human digestive system.

http://www.strangebuttrewe.com/knitgi.htm