better make it fast

Ugh. I am so sick right now. I need to go to bed, because I have to work in the morning, but I also need to post this shit before it drives me (and y'all) (all two of you who read this anymore) insane.

So, instead of the full version of all this stuff I've been planning on posting, here's the highlight reel.

Four things you may be interested to know:

• I cut off my dreads. They were driving me nuts. My scalp couldn't take it - too itchy. I have pics, but they're on my laptop, so I can't post them until Johnny brings it home. Why is Johnny away from home with my laptop? Well...


• Johnny got a job. (This is the big news of which I spoke in my last post.) In point of fact, he got that job in Miami. MIAMI, people! He was initially passed over, but then someone else in the department left, so they gave that job to the person they'd hired for the job Johnny applied for, and they offered him the position he'd first wanted. On the one hand, it's great that he's got a job, finally, and it seems like it pays well, is in a good work environment, and will be valuable experience for him. On the other hand, they offered him the job one week after I'd already started the school semester here. I'm not leaving here in the middle of a semester. But they want Johnny to start ASAP, so he's moving down in mid-October, and I will follow in December or January once my semester is over. He is down in FL right now looking for a place for us to live. At the moment, it looks like we'll probably be living in Hollywood. Anyone with any tips or advice for living in southern FL, please let me know.


• So, I'm back in school. I'm taking Biochem and Physics II this semester - only 7 credits. I cut back on my course load so I could pick up more hours at work (I'm working a couple weeknights now, in addition to my usual every-other-weekend), because we thought we'd need the money before my DH got that job. Actually, we still do need the money, because we'll be paying two rents for a couple months there. Anyway, it certainly doesn't feel like I am taking fewer classes than usual, because I am still in the Physics clinic like, every other day. And then with the extra hours at work, I still have no free time, so it feels like I'm doing a full courseload. People who work and do full-time school are absolutely insane, because just working and doing part-time school is pretty rough as far as I'm concerned. I feel like I am never home anymore aside from sleeping, showering, and grabbing an occasional meal. Oh, and so far Biochem is pretty cool (I really like my professor - check out his website, it's awesome), but Physics really sucks (check out the website for that class - it's almost as lame as the class is). I have, though, due to all the time I spend in the Physics clinic, developed a bit of a crush on one of the Physics TAs. He is just so cute!! I am a married woman, and I have a crush on a TA who is like, four years younger than I am or something - I am so pathetic. One good thing about Physics sucking so hard: I'm getting a lot of knitting done during lectures. Speaking of knitting...


• Here's a couple progress pics of knitting projects I'm working on now (remember how this was actually supposed to be mostly a knitblog when I started it? Ha!):
  
  
  I am almost finished with the Dr. Who scarf! I think I'll be able to finish it this October (just in time for the intended recipient to move to Florida!), which is just about when I expected to finish it when I started it last October. I'm kind of afraid I will run out of yarn before I can add the tassels, though. I'm wondering if I should try to buy another ball of a couple of the colors... but it's probably not worth it just for the tassels. But I'm also sort of considering making myself a version of this scarf (not nearly as wide), because I really dig it. So maybe I will buy that yarn. We'll see.
  
  
  So here's a close-up shot of where I fucked up on the foot of the Mermaid sock (which I am doing in plain stockinette instead of in pattern, because that's just more comfortable for me to wear). The big circle on the left is where I did an accidental yarnover, which I was totally in denial about for like, a month (remember how some of you at Knitstock '06 at Diana's place tried to tell me that's what it was and I did not believe you?), and the little circle on the right is where I did a k2tog to fix my stitch count... for some reason... Anyway, after much hemming and hawing, I bit the bullet, tinked back to the k2tog and then dropped the stitches down to the yarnover to fix it. And then I had to pull out about two feet of slack, stitch by stitch. It took like, a week to get everything back in proper shape, and it still looks a little weird, but I don't care because it's just a pair of socks for myself. If they were a gift, I would've seriously bitten the bullet and ripped all the way back to fix the YO. And I swear I have learned my lesson about fixing shit the instant I see it and not being blithely in denial about it for a month. Sheez.

Alright, it's hours past when I should have gone to bed. I am going to make myself even more sick this way... bleah. Thank god we don't have school on Monday because of Yom Kippur (hooray for the Jews!). That will be my day to sleep in and recuperate. And clean up the gigantic mess I've made of what were the only two clean patches remaining in our apartment before my DH gets home.

like that song by Cracker goes...

..."Happy, happy birthday to me..."

Well, I had a pretty good birthday today. I had to spend most of it studying or working my butt off in class (I have a physics test in the morning and a biochem test on Friday)... but I suppose it could have been worse.

I got more good mail today than usual (both virtual and otherwise) - thanks to everyone who sent birthday greetings! My DH cooked me an awesome dinner (scallops broiled to perfection... mashed potatoes... mmmmmmmm...). I actually managed to find an outfit to wear that was not only comfortable but also made me look cute (quite a feat these days!). The weather was completely crack-headed - horizontal sheets of rain, then literally 10 minutes later bright and sunny like the sun had been shining all day, then more rain, then more sun. It was seriously ridiculous. But! It didn't once rain on the nice suede sneakers I wore. Yay!

Alas, I have to put off the rest of my physics studying and go to bed now because I am so tired. It wouldn't do me any good to be completely prepared for the test if I end up sleeping through it, right? I know I haven't posted a proper blog in ages. I am dying to post and it's driving me nuts that I just don't have the time right now. I will construct my weekend so I'll have some time this Friday or Saturday to fill y'all in on what's new with me. I have big news which I am just bursting to share! I will make the time to post even if it kills me.

And now I must retire, for I am an old and decrepit woman now. Listen! Soon I will be so old you'll be able to hear me creaking.