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Tonight I'm flying to Kansas City, Missouri to meet Gina's family and taste some of the famous bbq that she's been talking about for years.

I feel oddly like a girlfriend going to meet her Significant Other's parents for the first time, despite the fact that Gina's parents will not be there (boo!) and that Gina is not, by the traditional definition, my Significant Other (although she is a very significant person in my life.)

I suppose I'll have to check my duffel bag even though it's small enough to take as carry-on, because I refuse to go without my knitting and I don't know if they'll let me take the needles on as carry-on. I think I read that some airlines are now allowing it, though. I should check that out.

Speaking of my knitting, I was a brave girl yesterday and frogged ("rip out several rows of stitches at a time and start again") a bunch of rows on my Sitcom Chic sweater. Frogging is very hard to do because it is, in a sense, admitting defeat, and it's also difficult to rethread the needles through the loose stitches, especially when your row is 200 stitches long. But I did it fairly seamlessly, so I'm proud of myself.

So, off to the Midwest with me. I'll be back Monday. But for right now, I must finish sorting those African Studies catalogues. Jealous?

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