Good news: I survived the most hectic work weeks of the year, I expect to be able to sign up for the equestrian club and ride horses (yay horses!), and I managed, barely, to stay on top of Greek and Latin homework during this most hectic week, although I have a lot this weekend ( Read more... )

A bad couple weeks all around, really. The news is horrifying*, my cat stopped eating and drinking for a couple of days and was hiding in back room (she's better now, but that was a very stressful bit), work's been non-stop hectic with the incoming students, and I'm worried about whether I'll be able to catch (and keep) up in the Latin class that ( Read more... )

Brief thought: I've been doing a lot of comfort/escape reading lately, which for me is mainly mysteries (usually English), some fantasy, some YA books, even cookbooks, and realized that it's because of all the description. And usually at least some of the description is pleasant. I've always loved the mundane details of lives but hadn't entirely ( Read more... )

Well, two months later in this most exciting journal and the internal fight with this apartment I'm getting more and more sick of and my tendency to withdraw when unhappy continues. (And such a lovely opening sentence! Go me!) But hey! a rather odd looking icon of my cat! And I have 12 grain cereal soaked so I can make some bread; my new ( Read more... )

It ended up being a reasonably productive weekend, at least by recent standards: groceries, some cooking, some cleaning, handwashing.

This afternoon some beautiful stacks of cumulus clouds rolled in and now the sky's solidly grey. It would be nice to get a real thunderstorm, much as I've been enjoying the warmish sunny weather.

We're still supposed to get thunderstorms today, which would be wonderful, but right now it's beautifully clear, so I'm going to go walk by the lake and get some eggs and whatever else looks good at the market ( Read more... )

We finally got the rain we'd been needing and now it's alternating dark dark skies and lighter with fog. I'll need to go to the store at some point, but will putter at home for a while first. (It just did it again! Dark, then suddenly much lighter and the fog shows up. Very entertaining, for me, this morning ( Read more... )

I've had a reasonably productive day so far, despite spending more time than I'd like playing stupid computer games ( Read more... )

The stupid book says that for a yarn over you are supposed to bring the yarn to the front and then knit the next stitch with the damned yarn still at the front. It seemed to me, reading it, that this would a) not leave any sort of extra loop on the needle and b) how the hell am I supposed to knit with the yarn in front! I tried it anyway, once, ( Read more... )

I wish I had buffalo roaming around. And jumping tennis nets!