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recently completed projects

now, at long last, with pictures!
  • a Headline News cabled newsboy cap from Stitch 'n Bitch Nation
    headline news newsboy cap 5
  • deck o' cards notebook from ReadyMade
    deck o' cards notebook 1
  • Brainylady's basic cabled socks
    cabled socks! 2
  • another boring garter stitch scarf for myself
    rainbow Katia Nepal scarf 1
  • duct tape coin purse and keychain ID pouch
  • a birthday scarf for Nana
  • some junk out of wire
  • the scarf for Bill

currently on the needles

active:
  • an amineko (yes, crochet - yes, in Japanese - no, I can't actually read the pattern)
  • a Wonderful Wallaby in Wool-Ease for Adler
  • a Dr. Who scarf (season 12 pattern) for the DH
  • a Linux illusion scarf
on indefinite hiatus:
  • the fuzzy steering wheel cover from Stitch 'n Bitch Nation for Lucy
  • 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?

Hmm... the countdown seems to be broken - again. And I don't have time to mess with it right now, so I guess it will just have to be on hiatus for a while.
  • (__) days 'til exam week starts!
  • (__) days 'til Bonnaroo!
  • (__) more days until Canada Day
  • (___) 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. 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

  • Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller
  • Organic Chemistry, Sixth Edition by Francis A. Carey
  • Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese by Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku
  • Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments by K. L. Williamson
  • University Physics, Volume 1, 11th Edition by Young & Freedman
  • BUST, the music issue
  • This week's Entertainment Weekly
  • The March/April issue of ReadyMade

recent DVD acquisitions

products and stores I endorse

other things I love

Sunday, April 30, 2006

I'm a weiner!

So, not only did I end up winning the Lake Effect fantasy hockey league this year, but also - remember that nerdy chemistry contest thing I told y'all about a few weeks ago? I won the grand prize drawing for that! No, really! It was too funny - I didn't attend the prize-drawing ceremony because I was elsewhere in the building at the time, studying madly for my last organic chem test of the semester before our final exam (which is this Thursday, May 4th - wish me luck, I'll need it!).

So, instead of the 3rd-place prize I wanted, which consisted of an SU chemistry department T-shirt and some gift certificates to some Marshall St. restaurants, I got the big gift basket containing: a woven SU throw, a chemistry department mug, some keychains and junk from the SU alumni office, two Syracuse Stage tickets, a gift certificate to the restaurant that's in the University Sheraton, and a Jim Boeheim Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative plate. I shit you not. What the hell am I going to do with a Jim Boeheim commemorative plate??

Pictures of this bounty, and a brief post-mortem on the fantasy hockey season (not that anyone but me cares about that), will be coming soon. Soon, like, after my exams are all over - which will be by May 10th at the very latest. I promise.

posted by Liz @ 4/30/2006 11:46:00 PM