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recently completed projects

pictures coming soon eventually!
  • the scarf for Bill
  • that pouch for my camera
  • Klutz capsters
  • a simple stripe-y hat in Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Bulky (leftovers from the buttonhole bag)
  • buttonhole bag from Mason-Dixon Knitting
  • a pair of toe-up modified Priscilla's Dream Socks (from Interweave Knits, Fall 2000 issue)
  • paper strip star ornaments (my own version of a wood-strip ornament I saw at a craft show)
  • crochet ruffle scarf (ball band pattern on Caron Bliss yarn)

currently on the needles

active:
  • the fuzzy steering wheel cover from Stitch 'n Bitch Nation for Lucy
  • a Wonderful Wallaby in Wool-Ease for Adler
  • Dr. Who scarf (season 12 pattern) for the DH
  • Brainylady's basic cabled socks
on indefinite hiatus:
  • a sleeveless top in Patons Fresco, semi-improvised pattern
  • Kitty Hat from Stitch n' Bitch in grey Wool-Ease
  • gigantic Wool-Ease T&Q sweater for the DH
  • skull & crossbones Christmas stocking

how many more days?

  • more days until Christmas
  • days 'til school starts again (bleah!)
  • days 'til the DH's birthday
  • more days until our 2nd wedding anniversary
  • more shopping days until my b-day
  • more days until W's out of the white house
I stole the idea for this cute little countdown feature straight from the far-superior blog bag 'n' trash, a fellow member of the mini knits webring; I got the code here. Wanna buy me something for one of these upcoming events? Well, I do have a Froogle wishlist and an Amazon.com wishlist. Hee.

recent music purchases

what I'm reading offline

  • absolutely nothing! yay!

recent DVD purchases

products and stores I endorse

other things I love

Syracuse links

Friday, December 16, 2005

stick a fork in it

This hellish semester is done. I took my last exam, chemistry, today - it was everything I thought it would be, and worse. My mind literally went blank as soon as I got the test. I couldn't even remember the mechanism I had just been studying, let alone anything I'd studied the entire morning. It was so bad. If I'm lucky, I got about 60 points out of 200. That's 40% of my semester grade, down the toilet.

I thought I'd be so relieved at this point, just to have it all over with and finished, but I'm not. I limped to the end of this semester so pathetically. I should have gotten three A's and two B's this semester; but I screwed everything up so badly, I probably ended up with two B's and three C's, at best - which all but drives a stake in the heart of my plans to go to medical school (which, well, I've never been so gung-ho about in the first place). I fucked up so much, I can't feel relief now. I can't feel much of anything. I'm just numb.

Well, like my DH said, now I've got the whole break to think about changing majors. Or just giving up entirely. I've already got a bachelor's degree, I really don't need to be in school anymore. I could get a crap job and just relax and stop trying to do anything with my life. I've never really been into that working-up-to-my-potential thing, anyway.

Eh, whatever. My brain's too fried to think straight at the moment. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a date with a bottle of Saranac Winter Wassail.

posted by Liz @ 12/16/2005 06:47:00 PM