Do I Really Even Have to Say Anything?

Merry Christmas!

Well, after much delay owing to the snowstorms that shut down the East Coast, I am home and with my family for Christmas.

Due to the snowstorms, I had a lot of time to knit over the weekend, and as a result, and after superhuman effort, the Bat Shawl I knit for my sister is finished, except for blocking and weaving in ends. It took almost continuous knitting for the last several days, and my wrists are about shot, but it was finished in time (late this afternoon) to wrap and have her open under the tree, with a promissory note for the aforesaid finishing. It was received with much appreciation.

Also, as the ultimate last minute Christmas gift, I made my mother an owl pin between when people started unwrapping presents and when people finished up, with a similar promissory note for weaving in ends.

Pictures to follow when all the finishing is done and they look all pretty.

Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Hanging Christmas Lights x Biology

Today, we hung Christmas lights on our dorm entrance. In addition to the fun of hanging in and out of three separate windows on the second floor, we encountered the everlasting problem of how to refer to the ends of the strands of lights.

Male and female? Seemed much too sexist and biological essentialist for our liking.
Thingie and other thingie? Definitely not specific enough.
Indented and convex? Not ideal.
Having essential electrical contacts and lacking essential electrical contacts? Not accurate, and further privileging male genitalia.

The best we came up with was giver and receptor, which I'm still not happy about.

Any better suggestions?