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Hello fine people. Sorry about the blogging hiatus. End of term madness combined with a visit from Bad Influence and a flight home. But I am currently comfortably ensconced in my living room at home, watching The Daily Show (surprise!), and enjoying this:
Bad picture (taken with computer camera), but note the very pretty LED lights that my Mom and I purchased today. I love them, and they are energy efficient too!
I am exhausted and must be off to bed, but I wanted to make sure you all knew I had not dropped off the face of the earth. Given that my lovely family has wireless, and I have my laptop, there is sure to be more blogging to come...stay tuned and hope all is merry and bright in your neck of the woods!
me and julio
No pictures. Why you ask? Because of my advisor. My advisor who makes it impossible to hate her, because she is so nice, but who makes you spend 2.5 hours on the phone with her on a snow day!!!!! As a result I have not been outside all day. I have not been in effamy's hot tub. I have no pictures of the snow.
But what I do have (so I should not complain too much) is a finished manuscript! Hurray! I am very proud of it and can not wait to send it off on Monday morning.
I must run, I am going to co-Guider's house for dinner and movies. Hope you all had a lovely day - snowy or otherwise.
me and julio
P.S. I havent forgotten about the pants story
P.P.S. Munchkin Mom #1 - if you're reading - I am going to feature your new family member in my next post...
Remember when you were a kid and those two words made you SOOOOOO happy! Not so much when your class of 96 students was supposed to write their exam at 9am this morning. Yes ladies and gents, on the day when my first ever class is to write their first ever exam (during the exam period anyway), the university is closed. Sigh.
Now they closed it with good reason. It would appear that we got 50 centimeters of snow last night, and it is still going (although not nearly as much). The roads were already bad at 9pm last night when I was heading home from Guides, so by this morning they were worse. Apparently some people abandoned their cars on the road last night, and I heard from the Chickadee Whisperer (heehee - a new name), that she and some other grad students spent an hour trying to dig out someone's car after a party last night. Also, public transit is shut down until noon today, making it almost impossible for lots of folks to get where they need to go. So yeah, good call on the university's part.
But, this means that the exam must be rescheduled, and that I have received many, many student e-mails this morning. I wish I had something to tell them, but I know as little as they do. We are all supposed to get more information on Monday - so until then it is wait and see. Given than many people, including myself, have already made travel plans, I suspect that they will end up writing in January. But we shall see.
My supervisor, being somewhat on the hardcore worker side, has decided that we are having a phone meeting, so right now I am trapped in my apartment waiting for her to call. But once we get that over with I am planning to venture out, and will post some pictures later on. I may even go over to effamy's and go in the hot tub! Hurray! The exam for her class was also cancelled. She's got some great pics on her blog by the way - go check them out if you want some idea of what it is looking like here.
Okay, I am going to go have some lunch and make some tea. Hmmmm - maybe having a snow day is not so bad afterall :-) Check back later for an update...
me and julio
So last post I promised politics and knitting. I am not in a particularly political mood tonight so I will briefly sum up my thoughts:
1) I am happy that Stéphane Dion won the Liberal leadership vote. I don't think that any of the candidates were perfect, but I like the combination of him and Gerrard Kennedy, so if they work together I think they will do a good job. I may just be a geek, but I really enjoyed watching the convention itself. It made me want to be more involved in the process as well. Maybe next time I'll be down on the convention floor? Bonne chance Stéphane!
2) This whole Québecois as a nation thing - sigh. I have more to say about it than that. But for now we will just leave it at a sigh and a shake of the head. Stephen, Stephen, Stephen...
Okay, that's it for politics right now. On to the knitting.
I am very proud of the progress I am making on Koigu sock 2.0. Some of you will recall my failed attempt at Koigu sock 1.0 and the disaster of the lost stiches. I will pause for a moment to mourn their loss. But, at our last knitting/games/meet Pokey party, I started over again and things are going much better this time.
As I mentioned above, the wool is Koigu Painter's Palette Premium Merino in the P462 colourway. I just love the colours, purples and blues, and I think I am making pretty good progress:
(I have to say - taking pictures of knitting is harder than I thought, especially at night)
Here is another view that shows the length a little better:
The pattern is from Lucy Neatby's book "Cool Socks, Warm Feet", the Marietta Rib Socks. It is very simple so far, just a straight rib pattern all the way down, and a Common Heel (not short row). I am scared of the heel, but don't think I will get to it before I am home for the holidays, so I intend to ask my Mom for some help! She started with this same pattern, and this is her finished product:
Nice eh? Yay Mom!
I am also still working away at Pokey's knitted gift. It is coming along - should be done pretty early in the New Year. No progress pictures for that one though, since his Mom and Dad both read the blog. In the meantime I bought him a sleeper, and this is him wearing it and looking as cute as cute can be:
Such gorgeous, gorgeous eyes! What a charmer.
In keeping with the theme of cuteness, I have noticed that people often set their knitting "work-in-progress" pictures out in the garden, or against a lovely background, or sometimes, they even pose them with their pets. Now I do not have a garden, but I do have a pet. However, when it came time to pose, Julio was less than cooperative.
Exhibit A - inspecting the sock:
Exhibit B - thinking about eating the sock:
Perhaps I will think twice about the "with pet" pose in the future.
Finally, I will end with the newest version of my "On Notice" board.
Baseball players have been dropped. #1 labmate pointed out that they has never really done anything to me, and I grudgingly admit that she is right. I have replaced them with the Tim Horton's ladies in UCC - it my just be me, but I do not think that "Earl Grey" and "coffee" sound very much alike. Thoughts? I have also added "Christmas Lists" in honour of the season, and "pants from Cleo" for reasons that deserve their own blog entry (soon, I promise).
'Night!
me and julio
P.S. Il neige...
P.P.S Blogger's spell check function is not working right now - forgive me any spelling errors...
Bad picture (taken with computer camera), but note the very pretty LED lights that my Mom and I purchased today. I love them, and they are energy efficient too!
