Sock Summit!

I think, previously, I've indicated on the blog that I am not a Sock Knitter in any way, shape or form. In the four (?) or so years I've been blogging, while I have made sweaters, scarves, mittens and just about everything else, I believe I've completed exactly 3 socks -- none of which match.
So it was with some sense of "Why the heck not?" that I signed up for the Sock Summit 2009 update list. I figured it was a chance to get into the mind of the modern knitter, and see what was out there.
(Besides, Tina of BMFA is one of the minds behind it and that alone caught my interest: my love for STR was and is instant and total.)

Dudes: I am so glad I did. They just released the teacher list and Barbara "I am a goddess who walks upon the earth" Walker will be teaching!! Here!! In Portland!!! Sweet Lords of light, I'd listen to her riff on the phone book!!
I am *so* going. Even if I have to stand outside her classroom with a boombox ala John Cusack, I will be there.