Happy Holidays!

Bye Blog Friends!
I'm off to Hawaii for Christmas. I hope that you all have a great holiday and I can't wait to come back and tell you all about the knitting that I finally get to do now that I'm done with school. Yay!

Bad Sign

Today this thing happened that is bothering me so much that I feel like I need to tell everyone the story just so that I feel like I have some control over the situation. Lucky you, I know. Anyways, today I my Anthropology final was scheduled at 3:30-5:30 pm and when I got there.....no one was there! The campus was virtually empty, there was another class finishing up a final in the classroom where I was supposed to be, and there was no one from my class in sight. I (naturally) started to freak out. At first it was just a kind of freak out, because I expected that I would simply find my class in another location and only lose a couple of minutes on the test. Then as I started calling every office on campus with my cell phone and walking all over the campus looking around for some other confused student from my class I began to really freak out. I even cried to the librarians, how embarrassing is that?! I felt like a little kid that lost their mom! There were real tears.
So it turns out that there was a typo on the review sheet that the teacher handed out and the final was actually at 10:30 this morning, meaning that i was 5 hours late! Now I can't find my teacher anywhere on the earth and I have only one day to find him, tell him what happened, convince him that it's only fair to let me make up the test, and then schedule at time to take the test. The likelihood of this happening is little to none. So what do I do? I'm so worried, but I don't even know what to do next.
Argh! I just want to scream and listen to my music so loud that I can't hear that little voice in my head that keeps telling me that I'm going to fail this class because of a stupid typo. And to top it off, Matt is already gone to Kauai and I have no one to vent to. As I said earlier, lucky you.

Thanks, internet friends.

Art

This is a group project that we did in my design class. Each of us blew up a tiny piece of a black and white picture and painted it by using the same values. Mine is the second one up from the bottom right. I did it a little bit too dark, but it worked out okay. We were all really surprised at how well it looks.

I've got an English final this morning and then I've scheduled myself some time to work on my paper later this afternoon. I can't wait for all of this to be over!

Finals = Burnout

Sister Scarf
Done in New Tweed black and brown with fuschia Kidsilk Haze double stranded. I did random striping throughout which looks great, but it took forever to weave in all of the ends. The stitch was just a seed stitch, but a small guage (for me anyway).


I think I might have lost the few readers I have over the past week of non-posting, but who's to say that I'm counting? As the semester winds down I'm not feeling that relaxed, in fact I'm a little bit freaked out about all of the things that I have to do! Final exams, final projects, another eight page essay...it's all just a little bit overwhelming.

Thank you to all of you who wrote me a note about my grandmother. We actually had a really nice time in Indiana despite the purpose of our trip. Spending time with our family all together is something that we really never get a chance to do so it was really special and actually fun at times. My grandmother was a cool lady and I will miss her alot, but if she was looking down on us then I think that she was happy to see all of us together. When you've got family from Hawaii, Costa Rica, New York, Virginia, San Francisco, and Indiana it's not that easy to get together.

In knitting news, I've re-started my UO shrug but this time I'm doing it the easy way...with chunky yarn. I splurged on about a million yards of Blue Sky Alpaca worsted in black and I'm about 1/4 of the way through it. I think that I'll have to wait until after my finals to pick it up again though. I'm also working on some secret projects of which I will not name until later. Those will also have to wait, unfortunately.

I'm beginning to think that my blog is really boring. I'm boring myself with it actually! Hopefully I'll be able to "find my voice" or whatever once this semester is over and done. I think that all of my creative juices are dried up for the time being.