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Month: August 2006
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Calling all Crocheters!
Dear Crocheters,
I know, I don’t normally crochet. I just can’t do it – it doesn’t make my hand happy, and it doesn’t make me happy. However, my cousin Leslie has taken up the crochet hook. And just like a good cousin should, I’m supporting her crochet endeavors. Because really, it is all about the yarn. Mmmm… yarn.
Anyways, she is a fairly new crocheter, and she wants to make a hat. One of those cool, hip, trendy hats – the kind that fits rather close to your head. No brim, if I understand her hat desires correctly. Just a cool hat.
Anyone have links for a cool hat? Or anything else that she might want to knit that you recommend? And yarn to go with the patterns? We’re looking for more “basic” yarns for right now – none of the luxury fibers.
If you can hook me up, I would really appreciate it. (Get it? Hook me up? Oh my, I crack myself up…)
Love,
Christine
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Already, the Homework is Piled High…
School started again yesterday. I came home after class with my first round of reading and homework for Organic Chemistry. Today I had Trig and Self Psychology, and I have homework (due on Thursday) for Trig and reading to do for my Psych class. Plus I need to go to the assessment center on campus and take the Meyrs-Brigg test.
Whatever happened to starting things off slowly? We have completely hit the ground running!
My stress over Organic Chemistry is getting a little better. I’m already starting to recall the things I thought I had forgotten over the summer. And I knew it was a good day in Trig when one of my classmates asked me what I was worried about – he was sure I would do well. (I have no idea how he knew that after one day. Maybe because I was the only person to show up to a math class with a calculator?)
The Self Psychology class has a better name than that, but really that is what it is all about. Self awareness, identifying strengths and weaknesses in ourselves, learning how to read others better and how to communicate more effectively. It is a required class for the pre-professional medical group that I am in and required for the scholarship I received this semester. They work with us a lot on making sure we know about the medical field we have chosen to pursue and what it will take to make it there. We have several papers to write over the semester, but most of them are pretty straightforward. I’m pretty excited about the class, since I have always found the topic itself interesting.
Now I just need to work out my homework times a little better. I didn’t take advantage of the 3 hours I have between when I get home and when Jason gets home on Monday, and it sucked having to work on homework so late tonight. Reading an Organic Chem book at 11pm is not fun. Now I know though, and I’ll readjust.
All in all, I think it is going to be a good semester. As long as it isn’t as crazy as last spring was, I will be happy!
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The Final Centerpieces…
These are the centerpieces for the Knit at Night Guild conference this weekend. The banquet is tomorrow night, in honor of the guild’s 10 year anniversary. It is one of the largest knitting guilds in the nation – how cool is that? And as an added perk, most of the yarn shops in Houston give a discount to the members. Totally worth a membership!
I was in charge of coordinating the centerpieces, but I did not knit all of those flowers! Several members of the Knitters North of Town (KNOT) chapter made them – I just organized it with the help of the chapter president. In an ironic twist, I’m actually not going to the banquet myself.
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iKnit…
The new podcast is LIVE! Go tell all of your friends, blog about it, shout it from the rooftops! I’m afraid people think I’m never coming back, so whatever you can do to get the word out – I would really appreciate it! (Now Caro, who I will talk about more in Episode 8, won’t have to put me on notice. Whew!)
Oh! I finally got to use the cool “play from the website” plugin for WordPress too – let me know what you think!