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I’ve been sneezing a lot lately and my eyes have been watering as well. And now my nose is a bit stuffed up and itchy. For awhile, I thought that I was coming down with a cold. Then, as I was walking back from the bank (just closed my accounts and they snipped up my pretty gold card ;_; oh well), it hit me. I’m allergic to something. What? No clue. Some kind of pollen possibly. Sort of relieved that I’m not sick, but this’ll stay with me for the rest of my life. Appearing every year. Fun stuff. :P

allergies, pollen

Went shopping today. Bought sock yarn from Joseph’s Coat. I’ve got 3 ounces of Brown Sheep Company’s Enchanted Forest for Jaz’s socks, 3 oz of Brown Sheep Company’s something (it’s a really awesome pink) for me and Lanett’s 100% superwash merino wool in Lavender for Jade’s socks. To see pics of Jaz’s and Jade’s yarns, go here. Don’t have a pic of my bright pink yarn yet.

I also finished my second Pomatomus. I’ve also taken pics of those, my Diamante socks and my still unfinished Branching Out scarf (it’s real purdy and soft and squishy and I just love it!). That scarf will be awesome once it’s blocked.

Tomorrow, I’m going yarn shopping with Kerry and possibly Hanna as well. I’m going to buy yarn for a Kimono shawl from the Folk Shawls book. The one in the book was made out of 100% silk, but I’ll be using bamboo. :) They’ve got really pretty bamboo yarn at Joseph’s Coat. Then from the Knitwit Stitchery I might be getting yarn for a Clapotis. Haven’t quite decided on that yet. We’ll see.

And the reason for all of this sudden yarn shopping? I found a birthday card from my uncle that contained $100. So I want to spend that. Probably not all of it will be on yarn though. Possibly will get a pair of shorts or a t-shirt or something from the UM Bookstore. Get some Griz gear. I mean, I’ve got the sweats, but I’ve heard that their warm weather clothing is really comfy too.

knitting, Pomatomus, Diamante, Branching Out, shawls, socks, yarn

Yep, it’s May and we’ve got white mountains! It started yesterday with the freezing rain and today we got hail. It’s so unfair. On Tuesday, wonderful weather. Like +25C (or high 70s, low 80s for you Farenheit folks). And now it’s cold. >_<

I’ve been working on some Pomatomus socks in this pretty self-striping red/pink/orange/white with black twisted around it. I was a bit iffy about doing the pattern at first, but I decided to give it a go, since it is a Cookie A pattern. She does wonderful patterns. You know the pink socks that I made? Hedera was her pattern. I’m thinking of buying her Rhiannon and Gothic Spires patterns, but I haven’t quite made up my mind yet.

I went shopping; bought $70 worth of stuff on Wednesday. But I’ve now got the Folk Shawls book that I couldn’t get on Amazon.co.uk. And I stopped by Joseph’s Coat on my way back, got some sock yarn (the stuff I’m making the Pomatomus socks in) and fondled a lot of skeins. Okay, get this. They’re selling fingering weight bamboo yarn for $2/oz. Only $2!!! So I’ve picked out the shawl pattern that I want to make and on Monday after Kerry is done with her school stuff, I’m taking her to Joseph’s Coat because she has to see the bamboo yarn, the soysilk and bison yarn! I’m so buying some of that bison yarn. Because you can only get it from here. It’s holiday yarn.

I packed my bigger suitcase yesterday. Which made me realize that my packing estimations are way off. I need to ship my bedding. So I’ll go buy a box from the shipping place in the UC after I’ve sold my school books. So if I can stuff my bedding into that box and some of my yarn stash (yes it’s growing), the rest should fit into my suitcases and still be within the weight limits. *crosses fingers*

And I need to go to my final class of the year! w00! And almost all of my papers are done. Just need to expand one more paragraph in my Medieval Lit paper and give some examples that help define seduction for my last one pager. *grin*

This time next week, I will be in Minneapolis airport waiting to board my next flight. Or then I will be on that next flight. I’m not sure. I need to look that up.

knitting, socks, Cookie A, Pomatomus, packing, school, weather

And I am done! o/ I have finished all of my long papers that are due. All I have to do now, is to print them out. And write one more one page paper. But I can have that done in like an hour. So whee! *spins on an imaginary swivel chair*

Played Scrabble last night with Anika, Rey and Kaiser. It was fun. I lost, but I don’t care. XD And speaking of losing, my notebook disappeared. I’m pretty sure I took it up there, but halfway through the game, it went poof! So… no knitting patterns for me. :( But they said that they’ll give it back if it pops up. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed. It’s got stuff in it that I’d like to have back…

Going out for lunch with Meg as soon as she gets out of class. The weather is wonderful. Sunny and warm-ish, but not ridiculously hot. Summer’s here! That also means that I need to start wearing sunblock. So I’ve got some SPF 50. No burning this year. I’m determined not to burn, at least if I can help it.

I’ve also ordered books from Amazon. Knitting books. And since I didn’t find anything that I wanted that made the total over £15 (which means no free shipping), my books should arrive at Oliver’s by the end of this week. ^_^ And my yarn is already waiting for me over there… Can’t wait!

Less than two weeks to go! o/ (The craziness that is Lime & Violet is beginning to rub off on me… XD)

Okay, so, I’m walking up the stairs in Miller after lunch reading the school paper. This guy suddenly asks me: “Are they suede?” “What?” *looks down at the blue high heels* “Your shoes, are they suede?” “I dunno.” *keeps reading* “Heh, blue suede shoes.” And so I keep walking and reading my paper, I’m heading down the hall when the same guy asks: “D’you have the time?” “Yeah. It’s 11:40.” “Thanks. *pause* What’s your name?” At this point I’m thinking: wait, why are you still talking to me? But I figured he might be visiting someone on my floor. But then he keeps talking and following me! We wind up at my door and at this point, he’s like: “You’re very pretty. Are you single?” Cue in me going: O_O “Thank you. And no.” But the persistent little bugger starts talking to me about religion! And no, he’s not trying to convert me, since he does not profess to be of any religion himself and doesn’t press on about me stating that I’m an atheist. I mean, really. I’m giving off obvious vibes of wanting to get away from this guy and he still keeps talking. I’m all flattered and all about him thinking that I’m pretty (even though I so obviously was not looking my best), after I tell you that I am so not single, it means GO AWAY.

Geez.

Feeling less guilty now. I started my final paper tonight. I only have like the introductory paragraph written and it’s only a provisional one, but it’s still something. And I named my paper too! Heh, I just realized that pun. I’m writing about how names affect identity. ^-^;; And the reason why I was feeling guilty was that I did not do any homework on Monday or yesterday. Brain go kaplou-ey from the riddle essay that I churned (another pun! what is it with me tonight??) out during the weekend.

Anyway… uhm… Oh, my Lisa Souza yarn has apparently arrived. It’s now waiting patiently in Oliver’s parents’ dining room for me to go claim it. Lovely yarn-y goodness. Another reason to want to leave Missoula! I mean, I’ll miss this place, I love it here, but school is driving me nuts. On the plus side, it’s gorgeous and ubercheap knitting stuff is available here, but… I still miss Aber as well. And I don’t get to see Oliver as often as I’d like while I’m here. I just got so used to being able to just decide to jump on the train on Thursday/Friday and travel for five hours (I used to try to do homework, but now I’ve got a better idea: play the knitting game a la Brenda Dayne!) and then I’d see him! I’m like mentally already packed up (seriously, I pack things in my mind first, sorta like a puzzle) and heading to the airport. And then I realize that I can’t pack my bigger suitcase until I’ve done laundry and I can’t do that until I’ve got enough dirty clothes to get proper loads and then I feel guilty for just sitting and knitting when I should be writing my final NI paper and two mini essays that are due next week… But I sure do have pretty socks. Even the dinner lady at the Food Zoo thinks so. She wanted me to bring some of my knitting with me so that I could show her, which I did tonight (I’m such an attention whore when it comes to my knitting) and I gave her the links to the sock patterns I’ve used.

And I should go read one more book that I got from the library today (research! w00! o/).

And I just spent £29 on knitting books. But I really wanted them. One is about socks, two are about lace and the fourth… well, it’s called Naughty Needles. So I guess it’s not that bad, four books for under thirty pounds. Plus, free shipping! I always try to get the free shipping.

What else… well, the weekend’s essay extravaganza kinda fried my brain. But I now have two revised final papers. Yay me. Still have to write that last one. Urgh. I so don’t feel like it. But yes, due to the brain fry-age, all I did yesterday was knit! (Like that’s anything new.) I finished my first ever toe-up sock. I made the Diamante sock pattern from Knitty.com with the Lisa Souza Sock! Merino (100% Superwash Merino) in the Lime&Violet colorway. It’s soooo pretty. And as I was showing off my beautiful new sock to people in my classes today, I got comments like: “Y’know, if my knitting was this even, it’d be all I’d do all day” and “You are a knitting machine.” So yay! There will be pics, but right now I just don’t have the time to take them, load them onto my computer, make them suitable for the blog, upload them, create the page and do the links… That takes some effort, y’see. And I have an essay to write. And another Diamante sock to knit.

Augh. I’m just so annoyed at certain people right now. One of them is definitely someone I can avoid; just a little click and I don’t have to put up with them anymore, so that’s what I did. ^-^ The other… not as easily dealt with. Not going to say more about it now, things might change tonight, but seriously, you’re 21. Act like it.

Yay, go me. I have finished my first Hedera sock! It’s soooooo pretty and warm (well duh, since it is 100% superwash merino wool). And for your enjoyment, I’ve taken pictures! Just go here to see them.

Okay, so I’m not religious at all, but due to my Medieval Lit class, I’m reading riddles. One of the riddles goes like this:

A man sat sozzled with his two wives, his two sons and his two daughters, darling sisters, and with their two sons, favoured firstborn; the father pf that fine pair was in there too, and so were an uncle and a nephew. Five people in all sat under that same roof.

The answer, according to my book, is Lot and his daughters with their sons. Well, this made me look up the story of Lot and his daughters in the Bible (oh the wonder internet, it found it without me actually having to start flipping through a Bible, just told me the passage that I then looked up in the free Bible I was given last semester). OMG, the story, for those of you who don’t know it, goes something like this: Lot and his daughters are chased off into the mountains by some people because of something Lot promised(? not too clear on this, I didn’t read too closely the preceding passages). And so the three of them are there by themselves, totally alone. The daughters must be brainwashed or deranged or from the Deep South, because they come up with the plan to get their father drunk so that they can have sex with him so that they’d get pregnant and keep the family bloodline going (yay! super condensed stupidity *rolls eyes*). So they get him drunk off his ass so that he doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on and the older daughter goes first to basically rape her father. The next morning, Lot has no recollection of the night before, so the girls are like “Yay! Let’s do it again so you the younger one can get pregnant too!” and they do a repeat of the night before. And thus, Lot has two daughters who got pregnant by him.

And people think that this book will help them be saved in the afterlife. But, as my creative writing teacher of last semester said, just go pick a Bible story and rewrite it. There aren’t any original stories left to tell. This would be a good one to do. I’ll have to keep that in mind.

But seriously, the mind boggles. O_O