seriously!

So, the academic program I’m working on is structured so that we have major exams every six to eight weeks, rather than “finals,” so I cycle fairly regularly through periods of relative calm, and periods of studious hibernation. Today is one of the days where I have to camp out in my apartment and study, and this is what I woke up to.

It was so nice of the weather to cooperate. I love love love winter weather, and the best kind of day, for me, is one where I can stay indoors with a cup of coffee and watch while the snow comes down.

things i’ve accomplished this week

I have this go-to project that’s been sitting in my bookcase for close to a year now, and whenever I’m too stressed out to work on knitting where I need to read from a pattern, or I’m between projects, I pick it up.

I bought this yarn over Christmas, at one of the yarn shops back in my hometown. I’m originally from Alberta, and when I saw an entire wall of sheepy, local-to-Alberta yarn, I couldn’t pass it up. (It did not hurt that it was super, super cheap.) It was a little bit scratchy to touch, but I figured it could maybe become a sweater coat, and so I bought a sweater’s worth.

A couple of months later, I picked it up and realized it was a little too sheepy to ever be a sweater I’d wear, and so I decided it’d become a blanket. A big, squishy, toasty-warm garter stitch blanket. It’s taken me a while, but after working on it so much these past few weeks, it’s actually starting to look like it might get finished.

four things.

I am about 80% settled in the new place, which is very exciting. Unfortunately, I’ve settled in just in time to do a bit more of my very favourite thing – study.

This will, hopefully, be my last exam like this for a good while. If not, it’ll at least be my last exam until October or so, and I am really really looking forward to having that break.

Until then, I’ve got some spinning.

And I’ve got some garter stitch.

The cat is planning to supervise.