School stuff

And now I’m just waiting for my dad to show up with the car so that we can drive to Aberystwyth. I’ve been up since 6:45… Feeling a bit nauseous actually. Then again, that is how I always feel when I have to get up really early. But I think a part of it is nervous-ness as well. I still haven’t heard back from the Accommodation Office (I’ve e-mailed them twice, letting them know that I won’t be arriving until today). I have no idea where my dad is right now. I know that he was supposed to get off the ferry at four a.m. and according to Google, it should take about four hours to get here. Which means that he should be here right about now. So…

I’m going to go back to enjoying the last few moments of Oliver’s company before he goes to work now that he’s up.

I think I know where I’d like to go do an MA if I decide to do one. Manchester offers an MA in Creative Writing where the “dissertation” is a piece of creative writing of 15,000 words. Sounds a whole lot better than having to do an actual dissertation. But the thing is, they only take 36 students. So I don’t really know what my chances are of getting in the program. I mean, I could do an MA at Sheffield, but they don’t offer Creative Writing MAs. Which means that I’d have to do an actual dissertation in literature or history or something. Just writing a 3000 word essay makes me feel like banging my head against a wall so the thought of writing something that’s five times the length of my previous essays… :( At least I’ve got until February before I have to hand in my application to Manchester. And, if I do get in to Manchester, then it’s only a 50 min commute by train from Sheffield (where I’ll be living with Oliver). So it’s doable. Knitting time! :D

Life’s scary. O.O

I can’t wait to leave! I’ve had a great time here, really glad I came, but right now I’m just feeling really antsy. I want to see Oliver!

Oooh, pretty lightning.

*waits*

And there’s the thunder. :D

Tonight’s gonna be fun though. Spending the night at Brandie’s. A bunch of us are going to order pizza and watch movies. Then she’ll drop me off at the airport in the morning. :) Hmm, maybe I can convince her to get up early with me and we’ll get breakfast at Denny’s or something like that. Dunno.

One more night to go!

Ooh, more lightning. It’s really cool when it happens and the still snow capped mountains are in the background.

leaving, movie night, Missoula, lightning, thunder

I now finally have all of my evaluations. Did better than last semester. :)

Creative Writing: A Seduction: A- Medieval Lit: A- Northern Ireland’s Trouble: B

Squee! o/

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

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.

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

I am about to conk out. I’ve been up since 3am (went to bed at 11pm, so only four hours of sleep) because I had a 6:00 am flight. And since it was out of O’Hare, it meant that I had to get there early. Good thing I got there there on time too, since the check-in line was huge, the security line was even longer and then there were about thirty passengers on stand-by because they had oversold the flight. *rolls eyes* But I got to Missoula alright; just had dinner with Megan, Jeff and Ethan with a few others joining us a bit later. I finished my Medieval Lit homework even though I really really really didn’t feel like doing that. But it’s done. So yay me. :)

Probably not going to the gym tomorrow since I need to go make copies of my story that’s due on Tuesday and I have laundry to do. After taking that week off from going to a gym, I’ve started feeling lazy again. But I did have a lot of fun staying at my sister’s in Chicago. :) And playing the Lego Star Wars on an XBox 360 is a whole lot more fun than on a PSP. That’s pretty much what Oliver and I did with Jessamyn for the last few days we were there.

I got a letter from my grandma. Kinda hard to read sometimes, and a bit dull, but I’m still saving it because it can go in the genealogy box I’m going to make some day. She said in her letter that she still has the love letters my grandfather had sent her, so I’m going to work on acquiring those too. XD

And now, I’m going to go lie down. Possibly sleep for a bit. But I don’t want to go to sleep properly before eight, so I dunno. It seems dangerous to lie down… maybe I’ll continue with my Isabella (it’s almost done!)…..