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Well the week has settled down a bit. Rinaldo came back to work today, with his knee immobilizer. Thankfully he does most of his work at his desk so he should be ok. I haven't done much knitting since the ER. Yesterday on the train I was reading, although I had Bob with me to work on. I was happy to see when I got to work that my Patternworks order had arrived, so now I have the missing blue for the Log Cabin blanket.
I've actually acquired a few books over the past couple weeks, so since I have no knitting pictures to share I thought I would show them off instead.
Maribel picked this up for me at her store this weekend:
It sounds like a good read. It's about 2 women who are widows, and are completely different but come together over their knitting. It's an Australian author. I can't wait to start it.
I picked this up at the last meeting of my knitting group (Maribel's store has all the best knitting books!):
I always love Debbie Bliss and with all the babies making their debuts this summer I thought it would be a good investment. There are some really beautiful pieces in here. I just have to decide which one to start with.
I got this with my reward points from the Crafter's Choice book club:
I've been meaning to get it for awhile, as my finishing skills are lacking, but I kept putting it off. I couldn't resist it for free though (ok I paid shipping but it was only $4).
I also got a call from the woman who heads the NYU Naughty Knitters. We will be meeting next Friday and they knit blankets for babies with AIDS. Fun for a good cause, it doesn't get much better than that. She said they were running low on yarn so I will be bringing in some of my larger odd balls to share with them. She seemed pleasantly surprised to hear I had yarn to spare, little does she know...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Well the week has settled down a bit. Rinaldo came back to work today, with his knee immobilizer. Thankfully he does most of his work at his desk so he should be ok. I haven't done much knitting since the ER. Yesterday on the train I was reading, although I had Bob with me to work on. I was happy to see when I got to work that my Patternworks order had arrived, so now I have the missing blue for the Log Cabin blanket.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Easter and the ER
The weekend was good. On Saturday I was home with the boys. We dyed eggs. It was the first year Ian was interested in participating. Of course after seeing 2 eggs change color, the novelty had worn off, but he did get a kick out of the finished product:
Kinda cute huh? I had picked up the Spider Man egg dying kit and it had all the cool little accessories to dress up the eggs. Ian walked around with the bowl showing it off and saying Spider Man to anyone he could find.
On Sunday we went to the zoo. We spent some time in the Children's Zoo first. The boys had a blast playing:
Then they did the egg hunt that the zoo put on:
There weren't really many animals out because it was so cold but this guy was showing off:
Beautiful isn't he?
I got a little bit of knitting done, not as much as I expected. I finally finished a skein on the blanket for my cousin. Then I went on to another ball for Rinaldo's scarf but didn't get very far.
On Monday Rinaldo's knee was really bothering him. He said it was the worst pain he has had in his knee ever and that's the knee that has always given him problems. Today he woke up and it was just as bad so I made him call out and took him to the emergency room. He recently switched doctors and the new doctor is impossible to get appointments with (I actually switched him back to our old doctor this evening, the wait in his office is forever but you can see him same day). The ER is never fun, I mean where are Mekhi Phifer and Goran Visnjic anyway? It was packed and moving slowly but it gave me ample opportunity to finish another foot on the scarf so I counted it as time well spent. Turns out Rinaldo probably tore his meniscus, that's cartilage to you and me, so he needs to see an orthopedic surgeon. Never a dull moment around here. I didn't make it into work either since the ER took so damn long. I should probably be more upset about that then I am. Oh well tomorrow is another day...
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Friday, March 25, 2005
I got mine...
The copy I special ordered has yet to come in at our distributor so I went over to the closest Barnes and Noble to pick it up. It is of course very funny. A few of them even had my husband laughing out loud on the train coming home. It's a little weird because I feel like a dear friend wrote a book. I have yet to meet Stephanie, though we have exchanged e-mails and comments on occasion. I also remember her pre-blog from when I first started knitting and she always had those great posts on the e-mail Knitlist. It is just another sign of how close "knit" (ha ha) the blogging community is. One of our own has made good...go Stephanie!
On the advice of Ann and Nancy (have you guys thought about getting together and forming a rock band? Oh right it's been done), I think I will buy the yarn called for in the sweater pattern. The blue colorway is closest to my beloved sweater so that's what I'm going to go for. Thanks for the enabling ladies.
I'm home today so I hope to get in some good knitting time. Rinaldo works tomorrow so that has potential too as I will just be hanging around the house with the boys. On Sunday we've decided to inaugurate our new Bronx Zoo memberships and go to their Easter Eggstravaganza. My mother was the only one in the family to really still celebrate Easter so I always had a dinner. I figured this was a good way to keep myself occupied and create a new tradition rather than letting myself get depressed. Wish me luck.
Have a great weekend everyone and happy Easter to those who celebrate it...
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Thursday, March 24, 2005
Somehow I missed blogging yesterday, sorry about that. I don't have much progress to report. I've been working on the blanket for my cousin. I am having some silly problems with it. I don't have stitch markers in it to mark off where I should be increasing but it's pretty obvious, or at least I thought it was. I seem to be forgetting to increase every few sections. I always catch it after the fact and then have to fix it to match all the other sections. I am just not paying enough attention.
I saw a woman in Starbuck's this morning with her knitting on the table. It looked like a front piece for a cardigan. The interesting thing about it was that she was knitting on chop sticks. I've toyed with making some needles out of chop sticks for Avery maybe now I will.
I also found out there is a knitting group here at NYU that I knew nothing about. The NYU Naughty Knitters. The question is, how did I not know about this? Am I not naughty enough or as people keep telling me, am I far too naughty to be involved. I have e-mailed the head of the group to see if I can find out when they meet so I can attend.
I received the new Family Circle Easy Knitting, not too much in to be excited about but I love these baby sweaters:
and I am definitely making this sweater for myself:
It reminds me of a sweater I had when I was 12 or 13 that I ruined when I put it in the washing machine. I think unconsciously I have been looking for that sweater for years so I'm very excited. I just need to decide if I'm going to use the yarn they suggest, Porto Cervo, or go for something different. Decisions, decisions...if any of you have used it what did you think or do you have something you prefer that would work?
I got this quiz from Nancy and I couldn't resist, mostly because I love this stupid bunny:
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adorable, but a little out there. It's alright,
you might not have it all, but there are worse
which happy bunny are you?
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Monday, March 21, 2005
What a difference 2 days make. I feel so much better, now that I have finished the antibiotics. I didn't need the cough medicine all weekend either. I also have the sock monkey off my back. What did I do? I worked on not one but two projects this weekend.
First let me show off some yarn acquisitions that I got while I was sick. It turned out that the package I was expecting from Patternworks had been sitting in my super's apartment for over a week. I am not even going to get started about that. I'm just happy I have my yarn. Patternworks was great. They tracked it for me told me it was delivered and told me that if the post office couldn't tell me where it was to call them back and they would re-ship. I'm glad it didn't come to that but I was happy for such good customer service.
Here is the yarn for the log cabin baby blanket, see if you can spot what is wrong in the picture:
Let's see, there's pink, yellow, purple, green and...hey where's the blue? Oops somehow I screwed up and didn't order it.
Here's the yarn for Rinaldo's scarf:
This was such amazingly soft yarn and the color so interesting that I had to cast on as soon as the socks were done. Aah the relaxing feel of thick yarn on large needles. It's a heavy worsted, but after the socks it feel like bulky. Look how fast it worked up this weekend:
Rinaldo is very happy with the way it is coming out, but a ball only gave me 1 foot. He very specifically wanted a "six foot" scarf. So along with the blue Cascade Sierra for the blanket, I am also ordering 2 more balls of the Print 127.
When I wasn't working on the scarf I was working on the blanket for my cousin so no pictures there but it is coming out beautifully.
There are many advantages to working in a bookstore, but my favorite has to be getting advance copies of books. Look at what I picked up last week:
It's a sequel to Shop on Blossom Street. I wasn't completely in love with the first one but it was a fun read and I like the main character, so I'm looking forward to reading more about her in this one.
No one asked but I found out from my sockapalooza buddy what yarn she used. I had to ask because these socks are really, really soft, seriously. Here's what she said,
"The yarn is Regia Silk, 55% merino wool, 25% polyamide nylon, 20%
silk, color #091. 1 (one!) 50g /200m skein made your pair of socks,
with just the tiniest smidge leftover."
I am definitely going to pick some up and make somebody socks with it someday! Just not today, or anytime in the very near future. I'm not going near anything below a size 8 needle for a little while...
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Saturday, March 19, 2005
I've been on the disabled list all week so I must apologize for the lack of posting. I've had this cough on and off for the past 6 weeks or so. Last weekend it got really bad again, then on Monday we had the first day of inventory at work. Lots of actual physical labor, which can take a lot out of a desk jockey like me especially when I'm not at my best. Then there was all the dust flying around. Together this added up to me being horribly sick on Tuesday. I called out, dragged myself to the doctor and discovered I had a respiratory infection. He put me on serious antibiotics and cough syrup with codeine. I didn't make it into work on Wednesday either mostly because I was so doped up. I managed to drag myself in on Thursday but mostly because I had a meeting and I knew Friday we were off (inventory is a four day week).
This left me very little energy for knitting and no energy for blogging. So I didn't get to show you what I got on Saturday:
and a close-up of the instep:
Aren't they beautiful and so, so soft. They came all the way from Hawaii just for me! Thanks sockapalooza buddy!
Sadly my buddy has had to wait for her socks, due to my illness. I did manage to finish them last night (finally) so I will send them out today. She is in California so I am going to fork out for expedited shipping since I am 4 days late in sending them. Here they are:
In the end I'm happy with them. Although it will be a long time before I knit socks again and never again will I do socks on a deadline.
Happy Spring everyone....
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Friday, March 11, 2005
Thank you all for the kind birthday wishes for Maribel, I forwarded them on to her and they did indeed make her day a bit more festive.
As for knitting, since ostensibly that's what this blog is about, I did in fact finish the first Sockapalooza sock on Tuesday. I took a picture of it this morning to prove it to you but my batteries died just as I was trying to upload it to my computer. Trust me it's done.
I am about half way through the cuff on the second one and it is going much faster than the first. If I can maintain my discipline this weekend and work on it during every free minute I am sure it will be done in time to be sent out Tuesday.
I had my knitting group at Maribel's store this past Tuesday. Much fun was had as usual. One of the knitters, Sonia, brought cookies for Bel's birthday. Chocolate chip and still warm from the oven. They were amazing. I took a break from the sock to spend some time with the baby blanket. It's large enough now that I was able to switch to circular needles so it's going pretty quickly.
I haven't received my package from Patternworks yet. According to their records it was shipped out on the 28th. I do have problems receiving packages from USPS at home, though I don't know why. If it fits in the box it doesn't seem to be an issue but anything larger doesn't seem to get through and they never leave the little slip to tell you to pick it up at the post office. I am going to call Patternworks today and see if they can re-ship it to my office. That's what I should have done in the first place.
For all of you wondering where the beautiful Izzy doll came from. The pattern for her is in this book. Bel said it was very challenging but she gained all kinds of skills that she can now use on bigger projects, like turning a heel and the intricacies of sweater construction.
Back to work and later to work on that damn sock...have a great weekend everyone...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Top 10 Reasons Why Maribel is my Best Friend
10- Because Mr. Poloso sat us next to each other in 6th grade.
9- Because she will without hesitation go to a Motley Crue concert and a Duran Duran concert within 1 month of each other and not for one minute wonder why two women in their mid-thirties would do such a thing.
8-Because she spent the last two months doing the most challenging knitting project she has attempted to date so her other best friend's first daughter can have this when she is born:
believe me the doll, Izzy, is even more beautiful in person.
7-Because she taught me that to embrace your culture you needn't give up your individuality. There aren't a whole lot of 36 year old Puerto Rican women who can discuss, with great knowledge; heavy metal, Latin music, Wonder Woman episodes and their favorite pieces at the Met. But the most important thing she will tell you about herself is that she is a Boriqua.
6-Because when her brother was deathly ill and waiting for a liver transplant, she took charge and held her family together. Even though I know she got up every day wondering how the hell she was going to get through it. And when my mother was in the most difficult part of her illness she would come with me and just sit and lend me her strength.
5-Because even though both my parents are dead and I have no siblings, thanks to her I have 3 brothers, numerous nieces and nephews (especially Nina and Danny) and a mom who adopted me when I was 13 and many times made me feel safer and more welcome in her home than my own.
4-Because I got her a job at Barnes and Noble when I first became a manager (back when we were 18) and she is still there and is one of the best damn booksellers around.
3-Because she still doesn't get how amazing and wonderful a person she is.
2-Because she is strong, intelligent and independent and she lives life on her own terms, even if it's not always the life she expected to lead.
1-Because (yes it's a cliche but so true) she knows all my secrets and loves me anyway.
Happy birthday Bel, you have always made my life better just by being in it!
As Maribel is sadly blogless feel free to leave her birthday wishes in the commments, I will forward them to her.
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Monday, March 07, 2005
There is knitting, I swear, just not enough to talk about.
In the meantime you have to suffer just a bit more through my renewed obessession with my favorite band:
You are Nikki. You won't let anyone mess with you
and have very strong opinions.
Which Motley Crue member are you?
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Yes, Nikki is my favorite, yes I will try to stop talking about Crue constantly. If you think you're suffering imagine how my poor husband feels...and no he doesn't like them, at all.
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Friday, March 04, 2005
Guess where I was last night...
with my boys:
After all these years I still love Crue. I was 14 when I saw them for the first time opening for Ozzy. Last night they were just as amazing if not more so. I'm glad I saw them so early in this tour because it was obvious how much fun they were having. On my way out of work last night I was talking to my store manager and he was saying that at least one of them must be broke for them to be doing this tour, but I'm not so sure. Watching last night all I could think of is what a high it is to perform in front of a crowd of nearly 20,000 people. Hearing them sing your songs and screaming your name. Most of them are addicts or recovering addicts of one kind or another so isn't this just another form of addiction?
Obviously there was no knitting at the Crue concert. There wasn't even an opening act so I had no downtime to worry about. I was kicking myself though because I wore Clapotis, and I realized too late that I should have brought my camera to document her night out a la the Harlot's Dublin Bay socks.
I did turn the heel and am just about done with the foot decreases. I am off today for Crue recovery so I am hoping to get a fair amount of work done on it.
Thanks for all your compliments on the yarn organization. It worked out really well with the new drawers but we all know it will all be out the window in a matter of months as new yarn joins the family. Thank you also to all of you who make suggestions for the orphan balls. Most were charity oriented and I think I can do just about all of them at one point or another to help reduce the yarn and do something nice.
For those of you interested in how Rhonda the Roomba is doing (yes we named her), she is currently vacuuming the living room. I haven't had a problem with her yet but I will keep you informed as Kathleen mentioned that her parents returned theirs. We'll see if our honeymoon ends.
Have a great weekend everyone....
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Ok, as promised I will share with you my adventure in organizing my stash. On Saturday I gathered up all my yarn from the various places it was hiding and laid it out on my living room floor:
Honestly it wasn't as bad as I thought. As I was saying to Tisha this morning, it can't be too bad since it still fits in one picture, right? The other thing I was happily surprised about is the quality of my yarn. When I first started knitting again 5 years ago, I didn't know anything about yarn. My grandmother used to buy yarn at Woolworth. The very first ball I bought was at Gotta Knit here in the city. I didn't like the people and the atmosphere so I didn't want to ask any questions. I bought a ball of nice yarn and a set of bamboo needles. Imagine my surprise when they rang it up and the yarn was $18. I still have this ball because of course it's too little to really do anything with (I also have my original swatch). I don't even know the fiber content because I was too ignorant to check it back then and now the ball band is in the middle of the yarn.
The next mistake I made was in the opposite direction. I bought a large lot of yarn and needles on e-bay. It was fairly crappy and as time has passed and I have learned about good quality yarns I have thought of this yarn sitting at the bottom of a rubbermaid container never to be touched. Surprisingly I seem to have worked through most of it. I was very pleased to see that most of the acrylic I have is pretty good and much of it was bought for specific purposes. Even Red Heart has it's uses.
I decided that I need to separate by fiber or use so I would be able to find yarn in my stash quickly rather than it being easier to just go buy new stuff. For example I had no idea how many colors of Paton's classic that I had. It is just shades or red and blue but still more than I thought. Lots of felting possibilities there.
So here are the drawers in my bedroom, the black ones are the new ones:
In the white ones I have all the yarn for specific upcoming projects and the bottom drawer is odd balls, of which I have far too many. What do you do with these orphans? Most of them are not enough for even a child's hat. I hate to see them go to waste but I don't have any ideas of uses for them. Any suggestions are appreciated.
The black drawers are broken up into sock yarn, cotton yarn and 2 drawers of wool.
My rubber maid container which I decided you really didn't need a picture of is filled with all my acrylics.
I straightened out the basket next to the chair I like to knit in. Now it only holds yarn for projects in progress or in the on deck circle:
That's Bob in the zip lock bag, the varigated is for the baby blanket I am currently working on, the Kureyon is for a Booga Bag and the blue chenille is for Ian's baby blanket which I will be expanding into a more appropriate size for him since he loves it so much.
All in all my stash reorganization project was a great success!
Just don't ask me about the sockapalooza sock ok....
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Remembering Behrens on Her Birthday
But this is not a mournful post, but rather a celebration of her birth of one of those singers who became a polarizing force in the world of opera. People loved her, people loathed her and, often there was not much room in between.
For me, Behrens' voice was one-of-a-kind; instantly recognizable and, as with the most committed of singers, always in search of how best to serve the composer. It's interesting to me how, a few years now after her death, whenever I play her recordings for friends, the almost universal comment is, "I don't remember her voice being this beautiful," a sentiment I, who have always found that voice so beautiful, have difficulty fathoming. But, I'm just glad they do.
There were so many roles I adored her in, but none so much as the one that introduced me to her: Salome. While I grew up on other singers of the role - great ones to be sure - Behrens was the very first who made me see and hear the depraved Judean princess as a girl, and that, my friends, changed everything. There were so many touches I'd never before heard, and I recall anticipating how she would belt out that first great phrase when her bloody prize emerged from the cistern. "Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund," - here, most sopranos deliver the moment with either a sense of exaltation or horror movie terror . . . effective either way but with Behrens you get both . . . each one simultaneously in an explosion of sound that, naturally, changes the course of the rest of the opera. Throughout Strauss' remarkable music Behrens sweeps through combining exquisite, silvery lyricism then ramping it back up with dramatic explosions of near volcanic proportion.
I'm ranting on (as usual) wanted something up here today to honor the birthday of this amazing singer who, right up until the day she was taken from us, was still filled with the joy of music, singing, working and teaching young singers.
If anyone finds themselves with a moment to spare today (or the next few), I hope you'll do yourself a favor and listen to the final scene from that legendary EMI recording with Hildegard (here along with Karl-Walter Böhm's Herod) under
Herbert von Karajan.
You may be gone, but Happy Birthday, Hildegard . . . and danke danke schön, dear lady.
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MAK PRAING, CAMBODIA — "I'm going to get my votes!" cried Mu Sochua as she stepped into a slender rowboat, holding one side for balance. "One by one."
She was crossing a small river here in southern Cambodia on a recent stop in her never-ending campaign for re-election to Parliament, introducing herself to rural constituents who may never have seen her face.
The most prominent woman in Cambodia's struggling political opposition, Mu Sochua, 55, is campaigning now, three years before the next election, because she is almost entirely excluded from government-controlled newspapers and television.
"Only 35 percent of voters know who won the last election," she said.
She has no time to lose.
Ms. Mu Sochua is a member of a new generation of women who are working their way into the political systems of countries across Asia and elsewhere, from local councils to national assemblies and cabinet positions.
A former minister of women's affairs, she did as much as anyone to put women's issues on the agenda of Cambodia as it emerged in the 1990s from decades of war and mass killings. But she lost her public platform in 2004 when she broke with the government, and she is now finding it as difficult to promote her ideas as it is to simply gain attention as a candidate.Continue reading the main story
She says her signal achievement, leading the way for women into thousands of government positions, has done little to advance women's issues in a stubbornly male-dominated society.
And like dissidents and opposition figures in many countries, she has found herself with a new burden: battling for her own rights. As she has risen in prominence, the political stands she has taken have become a greater liability to her than gender bias has been.
Most recently, she has been caught in a bizarre tit-for-tat exchange of defamation suits with the country's domineering prime minister, Hun Sen, in which, to no one's surprise, she was the loser.
It started last April here in Kampot Province, her constituency, when Mr. Hun Sen referred to her with the phrase "cheung klang," or "strong legs," an insulting term for a woman in Cambodia.
She sued him for defamation; he stripped her of her parliamentary immunity and sued her back. Her suit was dismissed in the politically docile courts. In August she was convicted of defaming the prime minister and fined 16.5 million riel, or about $4,000, which she has refused to pay.
"Now I live with the uncertainty about whether I'm going to go to jail," she said in a recent interview. "I'm not going to pay the fine. Paying the fine is saying to all Cambodian women, 'What are you worth? A man can call you anything he wants, and there is nothing you can do."'
This gesture is one of the few ways she has left to champion the rights of women, the central passion of her public life.
As an outspoken opponent of the prime minister, she has found, her participation taints any group, action or demonstration with the stigma of political opposition.
"My voice kills the movement," she said. "It's my failure. Now I am the face of the opposition, a woman's face in opposition. Women say, 'We believe in you. We admire you. But we can't be with you because the movement will die."'
During her six years as minister of women's affairs, Ms. Mu Sochua campaigned against child abuse, marital rape, violence against women, human trafficking and the exploitation of female workers. She helped draft the country's law against domestic violence.
In part because of her work, she said, "People are aware about gender. It's a new Cambodian word: 'gen-de.' People are aware that women have rights."
But where political empowerment of women is concerned, she said, quantity has not produced quality, and prominence has not translated into progress for a women's agenda.
Over the years, Ms. Mu Sochua has worked with nongovernmental groups to field thousands of candidates in local elections. Largely because of her activism, there are now 27 women in a National Assembly of 123 seats.
But 21 of these are members of the governing Cambodian People's Party — window dressing, she said — and have little impact, following the party line like their male counterparts.
"They don't speak out," she said. "It's hard to talk about this — I don't want to antagonize women — but if women suffer from our silence, we are responsible. What are we doing to make their lives better?
"This is where women can hurt women. They are in politics, but they are part of the problem by keeping silent."
Cambodia is still a traditional society in which women are expected to behave demurely and subordinate themselves to men. Schooled in the United States, Ms. Mu Sochua said she had to keep an eye on her own Westernized ideas and behavior, to be "careful I don't push things too far."
The daughter of a well-to-do merchant in Phnom Penh, she was sent to study in the West at the age of 12, ending up at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a master's degree in social work and thrived on the culture of outspokenness of the 1970s.
"When I hit San Francisco, I knew that that was my city," she said. "I began to shine. I let my hair grow. I looked like a hippie."
She met her future husband, an American, when both were assisting Cambodian refugees on the Thai border after the fall of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in 1979. Since 1989 they have lived together in Cambodia, where he works for the United Nations. They have three grown children living in the United States and Britain.
"I have to be very, very careful about what I bring from the West, to promote women's rights within the context of a society that is led by men," she said. "In the Cambodian context, it's women's lib. It's feminism. It's challenging the culture, challenging the men."
She has this in mind as she walks through the villages of her constituency, a woman with power but a woman nonetheless. "I walk into a cafe, and I have to think twice, how to be polite to the men," she said. "I have to ask if I can enter. This is their turf. I am a woman, and I should be sitting in one of these little shops and selling things."
And so she paused the other day at the stoop of a little cafe here in this riverside village, an open-fronted noodle shop where men sat in the midday heat on red plastic chairs.
She had succeeded in halting a sand-dredging project that was eroding riverbanks here, and she wanted the men to know that she had been working on their behalf.
"I came here to inform you that you got a result from the government," she told the men, showing them a legal document. "I want to inform you that you have a voice. If you see something wrong, you can stand up and speak about it."
Asked afterward what it was like to have a woman fighting his battles, Mol Sa, 37, a fisherman, said, "She speaks up for us, so I don't think she's any different from a man. Maybe a different lady couldn't do it, but she can do it because she is strong and not afraid."
Fear was a theme as Ms. Mu Sochua moved through the countryside here. At another village, where cracks were appearing in the sandy embankment, a widow named Pal Nas, 78, said the big dredging boats had scared her.
"I'm afraid that if I speak out, they will come after me," she said. "In the Khmer Rouge time, they killed all the men. When night comes, I don't have a man to protect me. It's more difficult if you are a woman alone."
Mr. Hun Sen's party holds power throughout most of rural Cambodia, and Ms. Mu Sochua said that party agents kept an eye on her as she campaigned.
Before she boarded the little boat to cross the river, a man on a motorcycle took photographs of her and her companions with a cellphone, then drove away.
Across the river, a farmer greeted her warmly, climbing a tree to pick ripe guavas for her.
"I voted for you," he said as he handed her the fruit. "But don't tell anyone."Continue reading the main story


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