I'm really enjoying cool blues and purples with a splash of brighter, almost neon colors right now. This picture below is one of my favorite combinations, and I love the ruffles, too.
I'm also shocked to find that I really like these for some strange reason. What do you think?
This is the second and final year in my U of C Master's program and you know what that means: Grad school application time again. This is half of what's been keeping me crazy-busy, but I've finally narrowed down the list of schools and programs, so I'm now working on personal statements and gathering transcripts and GRE scores, etc. At least having the choosing aspect out of the way makes this project a little less daunting [I originally typed "more daunting" and then caught myself. Freudian slip?].
The end of the quarter rush for papers and presentations and projects, oh my! is upon us. 
My largely amicable but still emotionally-painful and exhausting breakup over the past month coincided with my mom taking a series of trips to the hospital and eventually finding out about a cancerous tumor, which she had removed this past Friday and which she and we and the doctors hope was the extent of any malignancy. Dealing with all of the emotional and physical ramifications of both situations (really one situation in my experience since phone calls and visits all seemed to happen simultaneously) has left me totally drained. I feel a bit nervous about sharing this news on my blog, but it's life and all tied in with my knitting/lack of knitting and my need to craft and share and make almost defiantly in the face of what life throws our way.
I can't wait to have some time to knit and relax this week after finishing a paper draft and a personal statement draft, and I really really can't wait to go home for Christmas break.
