woke up it was a chelsea morning ...

dear blog,

you have no loyal readers ... this is a sad fact, but i'm willing to push onward with you into 2007. it's a new year and a new you, faithful blog. in the coming year i plan to fill you with pictures and news of my knitting, my schoolwork, my travels and my life. i hope to get some readers, some supporters if you will.

i'm also hoping to get a digital camera sometime in the coming months, whenever i can stand to part with $150.




in the knitting world there is much to talk about since i last posted. i began, feverishly worked on and completed the anemoi mittens by eunny jang. i'm midway through a pair of jaywalker socks by grumperina, and my next project will be my second try at my sweater, the somewhat cowl. if it fails a second time, i may just accept that it is not for me, and move on to making my own sweater.

the interweave knits preview looked enticing ... i'll have to get it next month.


other than that, class is fine although frustrating at times, trying to get to the gym is also frustrating, and so is my boyfriend, not to mention my parents, my pile of applications, my monetary situation and my irrational fears/hypochondria. soon enough it'll lessen greatly, but until then these socks are my new babies. i had a bit of postpartum knitting depression after my mittens were finished and i wasn't sure where to go, but i had two skeins of koigu that my mother bought me for christmas that were calling my name. after this, i'm a little overwhelmed by the projects in front of me, but i think a sweater and a hat are in order to use up some leftover yarn before i do anything drastic.

long time no post, i know, but it's hard to be a full time student, a part time knitter, a part time everything else, and write two blogs.



i just finished a 7 page german paper that has been ruining my life for the past two days and it feels AMAZINGLY FANTASTIC.

up next, a german take-home, a poli sci paper that has been scaled down to 5 pages, and two exams.
tonight it feels like i could do it all ... like all of it, any of it is possible. hoorah hoorah hoorah!!

tomorrow afternoon i'm driving home. tonight i'm listening to regina spektor and doing a really good job of not doing any homework. i ate a big dinner, yet somehow am still hungry. i think this can be resolved by eating breakfast .... a kooky idea but it might work. i need to go to bed soon, i'm feeling totally crazy. i wish that i could be totally selfish all the time and have ben on hand whenever i might need someone to snuggle up against me.

i am excited to eat sushi, see old friends, see old teachers, snuggle with my puppies, go to some decent knitting stores, go shopping, stroll around philadelphia and do a lot of reading. hurrah for thanksgiving.

all i've done this weekend, for the most part, is watch movies. i also got really fucked up on friday night, and freaked out. relationship rollercoaster blahblahblah. right now i just want to get my homework over with quickly and see ben some more, even though we've seen each other a whole lot all weekend. i feel like i owe him a big apology and some love. i don't like when i lash out, and i really think i did tonight.





ho hum ho hum. finished the baby hat for doug's baby. working on xmas presents. i managed not to touch my paycheck all week. i'm really proud of myself for that. other than that, still a bundle of nerves about a lot of things not worth being nervous over. things will work out, things will work out, things will work out ... that is the mantra.

we had a promise made, we were in love

an evil organic chemistry exam kept me from my boyfriend for two whole days, yet i think it may have done more good than harm, honestly. i like that i can still be overwhelmed with loveyloveyyyluffffy feelings. this week has been good ... good talks, good things, good grades. that will end tomorrow with a russian vocab quiz that i'm about to spend hours studying for. despite those hours, i think it'll be a pretty rough scene ... who knows.




i'm really excited because my german teacher said she'd teach me how to knit continental style!! it'll be so much faster aka so much better. once i learn i can teach my mom!! i'm nervous because i feel like it will really frustrate me, but at the same time i think i can really put time into it over christmas break and j-term.




right now i'm ready for a nice break. a break involving a warm beach (i wish). i'm also ready to lose some weight for real. more on that later i guess. right now i need a shower, then i'll study for an hour and a half, clean up my room, study for maybe another hour, and then go to sleep.

this weekend was exactly what i required to lift me out of my funk. on friday i took a nice walk into town and bought some gorgeous washable wool in a forest green and a dark red for doug's new baby. the hat is looking pretty good so far. saturday was fabulous. i went to burlington and bought a few trifles for my room, as well as a delish sandwich. i drove back and listened to an old old mixtape and sang along loud which is always really cathartic. i came back and watched a movie with ben, and then a huge group of us went out to flatbread and ate an incredible amount of pizza for rather cheap.


today i was supposed to bake cupcakes, but i think i'll postpone that till sometime later in the week. on saturday night of next week i want to have a dinner party for all my friends. tomorrow i'll start thinking about the guest list and send out some invites and saturday should be really really fun!!!






in other news, i'm doing everything possible to ignore my homework this evening. this is a bad idea, and i know full well and am doing it anyway. hopefully i'll get it together soon.

one wound-up punch of intuition

one of my biggest pet peeves has to be people who talk during film screenings for class. i mean, jesus christ, you can't hold it in? honestly ... and i don't mean the occasional "what did he say?" or "what was that?" - i'm referring to the "woah"s and "WHAT"s and "ewwww"s. please ... you're at least twenty years old. hold the childish outbursts in. i have to ask the question, who walked into a class on german cinema unaware that it would be a) disturbing, and b) depressing? do these people live under a rock? have they not been familiar with german culture for at least two years? have they never heard the cultural stereotypes/seen the SNL sketches? i find it totally ridiculous. i also can not believe that two people LEFT the movie ten minutes before the ending. you sat through two hours of a movie, to leave before you know how it ends? less importantly, how do you plan on writing about it or speaking intelligently about it if you don't understand the end ... oftentimes the most important part!? and you're in college!? and care about learning!?




i swear i will never understand how other people's brains work, let alone other's senses of humor. in other news, i have rediscovered my love of the shins, and this weekend is shaping up to be top notch. even though i can't seem to get healthy, i was pleasantly surprised by my boyfriend in the romance department tonight. just when i start to take him for granted, he comes through pretty big.



in the knitting world, i found a whole pack of the same size of double pointed needles that i have been using lately. this is great, seeing as how i lost one of the first set and that hinders my ability to make some projects. i also knit a swatch with this GORGEOUS 100% silk yarn that i got at the end of the summer at purlsoho. it was a free tiny sample of this white silk yarn with light blue seed beads strung through it. it made me daydream about the day when i could actually knit myself a cardigan out of a gorgeous silk yarn with blue beads and not have to take out some sort of loan to afford it. i used the newly found needles to start the second of molly's gloves for xmas. when i finish it, i'll have a big glove finishing party with a crochet hook and a good cd and finally weave in all the ends. maybe one day i'll learn to love weaving in my ends.


for christmas i am buying myself a gorgeous $137 digital camera. until then i don't know how many pictures of my work i'll be taking, given the awful quality of my current digital camera. i need to count my money tonight and see what i can buy tomorrow at the LYS on my scheduled jaunt into town. hopefully it will snow tonight so that it can be really pretty.