Hi,
This is just for my own benefit so that I can have a handy place to see a full list of all the garbage I have to get done in the next week (only a week of classes left!).
Rel 354 - 15-20pg Paper due 5/4
Rel 201 - 8-10pg Paper due 5/4
Engl496 - 5-6pg Blake paper due 4/28
- 5-6pg Metaphysicals paper due 4/28
- 10-15pg Eliot paper due by 5/15
Clsc304 - 5-6pg Paper due 5/4
Grk 301 - 50 line translation/commentary due 5/6
Okay! I'm off to keep working on all of this... Hope I'll survive till 5/5 :)
28 April 2005
26 April 2005
Actually, every night is homework night...
The end of the semester is hard upon us, and that means it's time to forget about having fun with knitting and buckle down and write sixty (that's right, SIXTY!) pages of research papers due on May 4th. Urg.
My family came up for the Luau, which went really well, and it was really fun to go spend the night at the hotel with my siblings. Other than that, I am working on the seemingly interminable pile of homework assignments all while stressing out because, paradoxically, the endless assignments must be finished in a week and a half!
I probably won't have knitting news until I get home, but I'll update when I hear back about the back-track sew-along swap.
My family came up for the Luau, which went really well, and it was really fun to go spend the night at the hotel with my siblings. Other than that, I am working on the seemingly interminable pile of homework assignments all while stressing out because, paradoxically, the endless assignments must be finished in a week and a half!
I probably won't have knitting news until I get home, but I'll update when I hear back about the back-track sew-along swap.
18 April 2005
Sunday night is Homework night
Hello! Finally gave the dreaded thesis presentation on Friday afternoon. It went really well, and everyone told me they enjoyed it :) Hooray for being finished with that!
I spent all of yesterday at Luau practice, and today I've been working and doing homework. I also had a stressful couple of hours when I lost my housekey. They charge you $75 to get a replacement - ridiculous! So it was absolutely wonderful when my next door neighbor found it in the street. I guess it came off of my keychain when I was getting in the car or walking up to the house before discovering it was missing. Phew.
In knitting news, I've started a scarf in a nice dark plum/purpley color. Just garter stitch, but it's something mindless I could do in the dark the other night when Dad and I went to see Ocean's 12 at campus films. I didn't think it was quite as good as the first one, but I still really enjoyed it! Today I also got to watch Hero. It was such a beautiful movie, and I would love to watch it again when I'm not worrying the whole time about how much homework I have to do right when it's over. Lauren's sweater is just missing 8 rows of ribbed cuff, so I should get that done before next Friday when they all come up for the Luau weekend.
Things seem to be progressing nicely - now if I can only finish three 20 page papers before the end of the semester, I'll be all set! Urg :)
I spent all of yesterday at Luau practice, and today I've been working and doing homework. I also had a stressful couple of hours when I lost my housekey. They charge you $75 to get a replacement - ridiculous! So it was absolutely wonderful when my next door neighbor found it in the street. I guess it came off of my keychain when I was getting in the car or walking up to the house before discovering it was missing. Phew.
In knitting news, I've started a scarf in a nice dark plum/purpley color. Just garter stitch, but it's something mindless I could do in the dark the other night when Dad and I went to see Ocean's 12 at campus films. I didn't think it was quite as good as the first one, but I still really enjoyed it! Today I also got to watch Hero. It was such a beautiful movie, and I would love to watch it again when I'm not worrying the whole time about how much homework I have to do right when it's over. Lauren's sweater is just missing 8 rows of ribbed cuff, so I should get that done before next Friday when they all come up for the Luau weekend.
Things seem to be progressing nicely - now if I can only finish three 20 page papers before the end of the semester, I'll be all set! Urg :)
13 April 2005
Oh, the middle of the week...
...yeah, pretty much I just hate it :)
The sleeve to Lauren's sweater is halfway finished, only about 5 more inches to go, and this sweater will be completely done! I gave the pattern to my friend Nick yesterday, and he thought it was the best thing ever, since all he's ever knit before are scarves, but the top-down seems easy enough to start on (hooray! drawing more people over to the knitting side).
I have a mini-rant, so if you don't want to read it, go ahead and skip over to start checking out my new links. I'm so proud of myself for figuring out how to code anything at all, let alone lines that go somewhere else when you click on them. Anyway, here goes:
Ever since the Pope died, every time I've talked to other Catholic students, be they close friends or new acquaintances, they say that they've felt unsafe or extremely uncomfortable talking about being Catholic on campus. Apparently, teachers make derogatory remarks IN CLASS and other students have been incredibly rude to them or around them (including one student who came into class Monday and said "sorry I'm late, I was just so upset this weekend over the Pope" and started laughing!) How disturbing is that? Especially since the rest of the class and the professor joined in. Disgusting that at a liberal school people have trouble being tolerant about other religions. In any case, it's interesting to me that all of this is coming out now, and I'm going to talk to one of my professors today about some options for dealing with it, either through a forum for Catholic kids to express their feelings, or in some kind of open-to-campus memorial/discussion about the Pope, at which some of the greatest detractors might get to hear what supporters say and find out how much their comments have been hurting Catholic students. Who knows? Suggestions are welcome.
And back to the knitting :)
The sleeve to Lauren's sweater is halfway finished, only about 5 more inches to go, and this sweater will be completely done! I gave the pattern to my friend Nick yesterday, and he thought it was the best thing ever, since all he's ever knit before are scarves, but the top-down seems easy enough to start on (hooray! drawing more people over to the knitting side).
I have a mini-rant, so if you don't want to read it, go ahead and skip over to start checking out my new links. I'm so proud of myself for figuring out how to code anything at all, let alone lines that go somewhere else when you click on them. Anyway, here goes:
Ever since the Pope died, every time I've talked to other Catholic students, be they close friends or new acquaintances, they say that they've felt unsafe or extremely uncomfortable talking about being Catholic on campus. Apparently, teachers make derogatory remarks IN CLASS and other students have been incredibly rude to them or around them (including one student who came into class Monday and said "sorry I'm late, I was just so upset this weekend over the Pope" and started laughing!) How disturbing is that? Especially since the rest of the class and the professor joined in. Disgusting that at a liberal school people have trouble being tolerant about other religions. In any case, it's interesting to me that all of this is coming out now, and I'm going to talk to one of my professors today about some options for dealing with it, either through a forum for Catholic kids to express their feelings, or in some kind of open-to-campus memorial/discussion about the Pope, at which some of the greatest detractors might get to hear what supporters say and find out how much their comments have been hurting Catholic students. Who knows? Suggestions are welcome.
And back to the knitting :)
11 April 2005
Update!
Well, seeing as how I'm pretty bad at posting regularly, I do have a couple of updates to share. I finished the body of the top down raglan, and one sleeve is done as well (woohoo!). I've started the second, and I should definitely be finished by the time my sister comes up to visit in 2 weeks.
In other news, I'm doing my senior thesis presentation this Friday afternoon. I talked to my family yesterday, and my dad seems to be planning to buy a plane ticket to come up here and see my little half-hour talk. Yay! That would be really nice :)
Also, I got a Mellon fellowship! I think that's big enough news to be added to a knit blog update...
I'll let you know when the sweater is finished!
In other news, I'm doing my senior thesis presentation this Friday afternoon. I talked to my family yesterday, and my dad seems to be planning to buy a plane ticket to come up here and see my little half-hour talk. Yay! That would be really nice :)
Also, I got a Mellon fellowship! I think that's big enough news to be added to a knit blog update...
I'll let you know when the sweater is finished!
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