Does this shirt make me look pregnant, or just fat?
I told the women at Stich-n-bitch on last week that I'm pregnant. I was showing off a ballet-style sweater I made for Lea. One of the women mentioned that it was the perfect size for a newborn. I said it was part of a matched set with some pants I had made, but that I didn't want to pick traditional baby colors for it (it's sahkalin salmon with firebird orange accents). They asked who it was for, and I said it would probably be for my baby. Here's the scary part: When they said they didn't know I had a baby and I said I'm 34 weeks pregnant, they were surprised. One of them said she never would have guessed, she thought I might have just been gaining weight.

Today, at social hour, a woman asked what I was knitting. I said it was coming-home-from-the-hospital pants to match the sweater I had. She asked who had just had a baby; I said no one, but that I am pregnant and due in a month. She looked at me, surprised, and said, "I didn't know you were pregnant". Is this hard to figure out? Do I need a sign?

It gets better, though. Not 10 minutes earlier, Michael (my advisor) and I were just talking about how large I feel and how much larger I'm going to get before GIVING BIRTH in a MONTH. She was sitting next to me the whole time.

Maybe I should stop going out in public without a placard. Or one of those flowery empire-waist elasticized tops.