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The midterm was... intense. It actually turned out to be more of a grad school midterm, like I'd hoped. It involved thinking and problem-solving and interpreting data, and it was hard. But I'm weird, and I actually thought it was kinda fun. I'm not saying I think I did terribly well, but I did think it was fun.
Whatever. That's why I'm a grad student, isn't it?
I'm still exhausted. I'm sooo ready for spring break. One more week of lab, and then I'm going to sleep for a week. Or take that road trip I'd thought about for Thanksgiving. I kind of want to escape, alone, and drive off in a random direction. Maybe I'd go to Boston, and sleep in my car (I'd take my sleeping bag and lay down the back seat and sleep in the trunk; it gets pretty flat) and window-shop during the day and knit in coffeeshops in the evening, and not talk to anyone I know and just... decompress. I'm so compressed. Just two or three days (I dunno about three days, I might get bored) would be perfect.
Anyway. I went looking at yarn online, because I'm not poor enough already, and I have a new love. http://jadesapphire.com/ Behold the tinyness of this yarn, and the softness, and what is probably the extreme expensiveness. I couldn't find a price for it. I have no idea what I'd make with it, but I'm horribly in love with the silk/cashmere in the Planet Earth color. I don't know why, I just am. We just connected, that skein and I. I want it.
My grad student from my first rotation dragged me to yoga tonight. I'd never been to an actual yoga class. I did it with my mom a couple times in high school, and I sort of hated it for no reason. It was this weird thing my mom picked up when I was a pre-teen, and I thought she was nuts. Now I realize that if I had been her, I would have snatched up yoga too. The class was actually kind of fun, once I got over the feeling that everyone was staring at me. My hips popped a couple of times, and I shook while holding most of the poses, and I couldn't do the airplane on my right foot because of my broken toe, but all in all I think I actually did pretty well. I might be able to be talked into going again. Might.
Anyway, I'm gonna go open a bottle of wine and stream last night's episode of Lost, and then maybe laze around for a while reading Real Simple.
Oh, I also seem to have obtained a Rolling Stone subscription. Did any of you purchase one for me? I've gotten two issues now....
Or maybe I subscribed without remembering? ...That sort of sounds like something I might do....
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Edit: I'm a bad person. I found a yarn sale site. http://www.littleknits.com/index.php
I bought yarn.
And now I want to buy more yarn. Good thing I already sent in the order. My willpower is strong enough to only let me complete one....
http://www.littleknits.com/products.php?cat=344
Damn I want this yarn. Color wouldn't matter. But I like the first two.
Again, not that I have any idea what I'd make with it. Especially since tiny needles and endless pattern repetitions scare me.
Whatever. That's why I'm a grad student, isn't it?
I'm still exhausted. I'm sooo ready for spring break. One more week of lab, and then I'm going to sleep for a week. Or take that road trip I'd thought about for Thanksgiving. I kind of want to escape, alone, and drive off in a random direction. Maybe I'd go to Boston, and sleep in my car (I'd take my sleeping bag and lay down the back seat and sleep in the trunk; it gets pretty flat) and window-shop during the day and knit in coffeeshops in the evening, and not talk to anyone I know and just... decompress. I'm so compressed. Just two or three days (I dunno about three days, I might get bored) would be perfect.
Anyway. I went looking at yarn online, because I'm not poor enough already, and I have a new love. http://jadesapphire.com/ Behold the tinyness of this yarn, and the softness, and what is probably the extreme expensiveness. I couldn't find a price for it. I have no idea what I'd make with it, but I'm horribly in love with the silk/cashmere in the Planet Earth color. I don't know why, I just am. We just connected, that skein and I. I want it.
My grad student from my first rotation dragged me to yoga tonight. I'd never been to an actual yoga class. I did it with my mom a couple times in high school, and I sort of hated it for no reason. It was this weird thing my mom picked up when I was a pre-teen, and I thought she was nuts. Now I realize that if I had been her, I would have snatched up yoga too. The class was actually kind of fun, once I got over the feeling that everyone was staring at me. My hips popped a couple of times, and I shook while holding most of the poses, and I couldn't do the airplane on my right foot because of my broken toe, but all in all I think I actually did pretty well. I might be able to be talked into going again. Might.
Anyway, I'm gonna go open a bottle of wine and stream last night's episode of Lost, and then maybe laze around for a while reading Real Simple.
Oh, I also seem to have obtained a Rolling Stone subscription. Did any of you purchase one for me? I've gotten two issues now....
Or maybe I subscribed without remembering? ...That sort of sounds like something I might do....
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Edit: I'm a bad person. I found a yarn sale site. http://www.littleknits.com/index.php
I bought yarn.
And now I want to buy more yarn. Good thing I already sent in the order. My willpower is strong enough to only let me complete one....
http://www.littleknits.com/products.php?cat=344
Damn I want this yarn. Color wouldn't matter. But I like the first two.
Again, not that I have any idea what I'd make with it. Especially since tiny needles and endless pattern repetitions scare me.
