week of hell.

Hello everyone. Long time no see. I must admit, there is a reason for that. This past weekend has been hell-ish and this coming week seems like it will turn out a similar way! Gah! There is no rest for the college student who decided it was a great idea to become an English major. That research paper I did in one night? Remember? Yeah, well it was great! By far one of the best I have written. She hands it back to me last Thursday and gives me until today (Tuesday) to redo it! She doesn’t even give me a reason why it wasn’t “up to her standards”. So I tore my hair out attempting to write another research paper in less than five days!

I broke down a couple times (seriously, who wouldn’t?) but I got it finished and now I’m looking forward (not in a joyous way) to my next essay. A research paper on Gulliver’s Travels (Book Four). I chose the Yahoos and am writing a paper on the following thesis: “In Part Four of Gulliver’s Travels, the Yahoos are used as a satirical device to reflect the bad traits of mankind including behavior, intelligence and vice.” Sounds good, right? Yep. It is now just a matter of organizing my information in a manageable and logical way. Bah! I am hoping to get a chunk of it out of the way after I finish here. But we’ll see how far I get.

Last week, for Thanksgiving, the boyfriend came over with some flowers to wish me and mine a wonderful Thanksgiving. Recently, he’s been adorning me with flowers. He gave me half a dozen roses for my birthday, autumn flowers (that smelled like cinnamon) and wintery flowers this weekend because I was stressing out so much. Here are the cinnamon, autumn flowers:

Beautiful!

Then, I got some knitting done over Thanksgiving. I picked up the Ribbed Lace Bolero again after about two months of sitting at the bottom of my closet. I only had the three inches of ribbing completed when I picked it up and I am almost finished. I need about five more rows and I can start the three inches of ribbing and cast off. I hope to finish it before the end of the weekend. But we’ll see how I survive this week:

In the well lit “piano” room.

My best friend and I got together of Thanksgiving break and she gave me my birthday gift. Malabrigo kettle dyed pure merino wool in cinnabar (194) in worsted weight. I received two skeins! Beautiful! I am going to make Foliage from Knitty Fall 2007. I can’t believe it is the right yarn and everything! I think I’m going to double it up to make the chunky one. I want to make it a bit looser, like a berate. My hair is too massive to do anything else.

Malabrigo. Kettle dyed pure merino wool in cinnabar.

Lastly, I held my first Open Mic Night as the new Creative Writers Guild president last Wednesday. It went swimmingly! We had over 40 people show up (not all of them are in the picture) and we had over 22 performances! I was thrilled! I was even told it was the best open mic the school has had in a while (YAY!).

The crowd!

Okay. I think its about time I start working on my essay. My goal is to finish it tomorrow night. Or maybe I’ll work on my Christmas knitting. We’ll see.

Night!