If I could save time in a bottle...

Then I'd really have something.

The real question here is why am I making a blog entry instead of getting on the five tons of work I need to do?

Right. Guess I'll meander off and find something else to keep me away from my studies. Something a little less obvious. An episode of Torchwood while pretending to read perhaps? Sounds good.

Only Living When Dying

Why is it that people only get around to living when they find out they're dying? (Guilty, btw).

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

VICTORY!

I survived the semester! However, that little three week excursion into a level of madness beyond my usual insanity has prompted me to begin building a studio in the back yard. I don't think I can sustain what I just did over three weeks for the thirty two weeks it will take to complete senior thesis.

What have I been doing since the end of finals? Knitting of course!

FO: Horcrux Socks.
CastOn: May 2007
CastOff: November 2007
Yarn: Self-Dyed, Self-Striping Superwash Ravenclaw Film



WIP: Undefined Vanilla Two-at-Once Toe-Up Socks
CastOn: December 2007
Yarn: Fortissima Socka Bamboo



Since I'm figuring out the pattern as I go, here's what I have so far:

On circular needles, Figure-8 CastOn 12 stitches. Begin increases as follows: 1) Knit one round. 2) KLL after first and KRL before last stitch of each needle. Repeat rows 1 and 2 until knitting covers the first four toes and touches the littlest toe. Knit around until knitting covers all toes. Begin instep pattern (My pattern is 6x2 ribbing). Knit around until knitting reaches 2 inches before the back of the heel.

That's where I have to stop since I haven't gotten too my heel yet :)

BUT, here's the "plan":

Using the Cat Bordhi's wrap and turn method, knit across the sole until 1 stitch remains. Wrap that stitch and turn. Purl back until 1 stitch remains. Wrap that stitch and turn. *Knit back until 1 stitch remains before the wrapped stitch. Wrap that stitch and turn. Purl back until 1 stitch remains before the wrapped stitch. Wrap that stitch and turn.* Two stitches on each side are wrapped. Repeat between the * until all but the center 12 stitches are wrapped. Using Cat Bordhi's conceal wrap method, pick up the wraps as you work back and forth to turn the heel.

More knitting action to come as the holidays wear on! Same knit time, same knit channel!

I've also been able to get back to playing World of Warcraft the Trading Card Game. Yes, I flop cardboard onto a table for fun. Right now I'm working on a killer new version of Hoot-n-Shoot if anyone has any Bestial Wraths or Blastershot Launchers to donate to the cause.

We now pause for station identification...

I am alive. At least, for the moment. Finals are over on December 7th. Ask again once my hangover clears on the 9th.

Sunday

I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth! I've been in the darkroom. IF the scanner isn't having a suck fit, I might show off a few prints soon.

The Third of May

It's now officially my twenty-ninth birthday and I'm here to make a guilty little confession. I'm desperately working to get my final design project finished and I've intentionally replayed the same episode of Project Runway countless times for no other reason than to hear Tim Gunn say "Make it work."

So what funny little things do you do when you find yourself running face first into the brick wall of a deadline?

http://scarletknits.etsy.com

The Finish Line

Here's the last major project of the semester. After this all we have left is a small paper project and we are outta there! This one was done with a 12"x12"x12" foam core. Housing insulation foam at that. Anyway, it was carved then sanded and sealed. An additive texture of paper mache was then applied, followed by a coat of gesso and several coats of paint.



http://scarletknits.etsy.com

Who was I today?

I was a scared little chickenshit running around campus. "Why?" you ask. Well, besides the fact that I can think of at least six people off the top of my head who would be my straight up pick for looking at the news and thinking "hey, that's not a half bad idea", there's the loony that packed up and came to south Louisiana today. "If you think that was bad, then you haven't seen anything yet." he wrote in a note that alluded to the Virginia Tech massacre. Not the kind of shit I needed to hear about today. I didn't want to go to campus to begin with, then when I dropped the kids off I almost turned around to pick them back up and go home. Then that shit breaks.

I need a beer.

Technorati tags: children, class, college, evil, shootings, Virginia Tech

Scary Day on Campus

If you've been living under a rock, you haven't heard that there are 33 dead at Virginia Tech today, 29 wounded.

I'm not sure what to think of that other than to wonder if the next time CNN reports on a school shooting, will it be my school? My kids go to my school, the campus daycare, so that really scares the hell out of me. One day, will I flip on the news after class and see that my campus is under attack? Will I have to curse out some perimeter guarding cop as I try to get my children? What would happen to me if I had to endure that kind of stress? That's the kind of thing that changes you, even if everything is okay in the end.

Who will you be after today?