A little of this and that

The weather appears to be coming around to what it should be like for spring. I'm hoping for rain this weekend--nice weather could be a death blow to local film festival attendance--but I'm not a fan of precipitation in regard to my street. If we get much rain, I'll be ankle deep (or deeper) in mud and...well, hopefully just mud. The city is replacing sewer lines.

Not much knitting news to report. I'm making good progress on the baby blanket and might be able to start decreasing tonight if I abandon writing a review for picking up the needles.

Knitting media watch: don't hate her because she's beautiful edition... In the April 6 issue of Entertainment Weekly Czech supermodel Paulina Porizkova of The Cars videos and Her Alibi mentions that she knits. If her knitting ways don't demonstrate enough good taste, it seems that she's a fan of The Colbert Report. (She called Stephen "hot" during a Good Morning America interview, a clip that he got a lot of mileage from on last night's show. How that didn't make the episode highlights is a mystery.) I'd say that makes up for appearing on Dancing with the Stars, but I've never seen the show...or Her Alibi. This was supposed to be somewhat funny, but it's just dying on the vine. I'll quit while I'm behind...

I'll finish on an up note. One thing that helped make my day came unexpectedly. I was joking around with a couple students at work about how mean I was being in making them do something. That's when one said that I was the nicest of the three of us employed at the station. I seriously doubt I'd win a popularity contest. I don't work with a bunch of ogres, so it is a big compliment.

While I would like to think I'm relatively aware of how I'm perceived, this was not something I ever expected to hear. Maybe I'm stuck with a perception of a past version of me when people accused me of being unfriendly, which was really just quietness misinterpreted. My co-worker and I don't have good cop-bad cop roles, although I'm the tough one more often than not, which I figured didn't play in my favor. Being considered most straightforward with them I could see; the nicest, not so much. This student's comment meant a lot to me, more than she could ever know. More than any job evaluation, it tells me I must be doing something right and that I need to reassess how I think others see me. That's not such a bad thing.