Ginger Binger

I finished my first full week of summer courses this week and it was exhausting! Tuesday and Thursday I had two 4 hours classes, so I pretty much went straight through from 8-5 with an hour for lunch. I'm taking Addictions and Family Systems which is an awesome class, we don't get a very long break, so it does seem to drag on and on, but its fascinating stuff!
In the afternoon I have Community Counseling which is much more of an advocacy/public policy change class than I thought it would be. I just read part of Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and my brain feels a bit a like Jell-o, nice oppressive, I can't do anything to help the oppressed people without somehow patronizing them and further oppressing them- Jell-o.

I have been able to knit a lot on Ginger, I have probably 6 inches of the front done and it is knitting up pretty quickly. I had to go up quite a few needle sizes as I wasn't getting gauge very easily. The fabric is nice and loose and airy which is perfect for the heat and humidity that we are about to get.
I have also been doing a row or three on Branching Out sporadically, but I'm a little more into Ginger right now, there is something nice about doing plain stockinette and being able to watch movies or read or play one-sided fetch with Floyd all at once.

Its warm enough for a trip to the pool today, so I might go try out my new swimsuit if I can get my homework done. Our apartment is right next to the pool and I got a new suit last weekend that I have been dying to try out, so I will use that as my motivation to get the other 20 chapters read...ugh.

That's all for today, I think. I may try to post a few pictures of Ginger if I finish up the back tonight, but otherwise the plain stock just isn't exciting enough to warrant a photo!

Pakucho mucho

My yarn came in and it is lovely, but a big fat pain in the arse to wind into balls! I have a ball winder but no swift and I have not yet figured out a good alternative to a swift (since I don't have one and don't think I'll have to money to buy one any time soon!) So last night I tried to make one hank into a ball and ended up with very happy cats, a very frustrated disposition, and no ball!

I wanted to ball it up so that I could get started on Ginger in class tonight, but that probably won't be happening. I am seeing my first family tonight, it was supposed to happen last week, but they didn't show up, so my anxiety has been postponed to this week. I'll be in the clinic from 4-8 pm so maybe, just maybe, i'll get a little chance to knit :)

Last night was my Oma's 70th Birthday. We celebrated at Red Lobster, at her request, and later had champagne and dessert at home. She is leaving to go back to Germany on Saturday so I was glad to be able to spend a little time with her.

The rest of this week is going to be fairly hectic, I've got beaucoup buckets of homework and reading and an intense desire to be lazy, so we'll see how I work the two out!
Jered and I bought Nike Free shoes last weekend so I have been trying to work out all week, but school is getting in my way. At least I have cool shoes that let my feet mimic nakedness, being barefoot is always a good thing!