January 15, 2004: Sorry for no post yesterday. I was busy preparing the first exam for my class and I had a long meeting with a fellow grad student. I wore pseudo-skully today and yesterday because it has been well below freezing here! I got many great compliments. The secretaries in the psychology office are very impressed with my knitting. I have a modeling pic...

January 10, 2005: I hadn't posted yet today because I didn't have much to say, then as I was getting ready to eat my lunch, I thought of a great post. By the time everything loaded on the computer so that I could start writing, the post was gone. Stupid brain!

Oh well, I made some good progress on Kevin's DNA Scarf yesterday. I'm hoping that I can finish it by the weekend. I can do a repeat in about an hour and each repeat is about 6 inches. Here is 4 finished repeats...

I know the picture quality is poor, but I took about 10 pictures and this is the best one of the bunch. At least you can sort of see the cables. I forgot to block the second afghan square yesterday. Hopefully I'll remember tonight and I'll post that picture soon. Square #3 is about 35 rows complete out of 82 total.

January 17 2006:Self-Portrait Tuesday: Personal History

(Please ignore my poor photoshopping skills... especially since I am using Microsoft Paint).

This picture shows me today and me when I was 10 years old. Today I taught my first class for the semester and decided to "dress up" (which highly impressed the secretaries who are used to seeing me in jeans). The 10 year old me is "dressed up" for career day. I don't remember if I was supposed to be a teacher or an accountant, but definitely a professional of some sort (see the notebooks!). What is funny is that I cropped out the two guys behind me in the original picture, one who was dressed in a full football uniform and the other dressed in a sports coat and shorts (I still remember that he wanted to be a business man in Bermuda).

January 13, 2007:HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!

No, my dissertation is not finished...

No, I haven't finished all of my wedding planning...

No, I haven't finished knitting Lilith (although it's very close)...

No, I haven't heard from any of the jobs I've applied to...

No, NOT THAT!

What could it be?!?!?!

Indications look very good that I'll have another published knitting pattern!!!

January 15, 2008:ALL THE LITTLE SOCKIES

I finally got around to washing a bunch of handknits yesterday. As you can see, it was mostly a load of socks. They seem to survive a trip in the front-loader on cold with some Woolite without much problem. The few that have shrunk/felted a bit suffered that in previous laundrymat experiences. Of these 16 pairs, 1 is Kevin's and 3 were knit for me by someone else. I just recently updated my sock gallery and I'm up to a lifetime of 30 knitted pairs of socks with 31 and 32 on the needles and potential 33 and 34 waiting for mates and likely 35 to be ripped.