Withdrawal

I haven't picked up the needles in two days, ack!

I have been ridiculously insane busy, moving back to school. The panic and flail started on Sunday, when I entrusted almost the entirety of my stash to a friend of mine to transport for me. Oh, the horror stories I imagined until I got my hands on it again. She didn't realise how much the stash was worth, or else she would have been way more nervous about it.

But it arrived safely! As did I.

So far, everything is amazing. The apartment is bigger than I thought it would be, the furniture is only a couple years out from new. Even my bed is exponentially more comfortable than last year. I have a bedspring! Small things can make me so very happy. We fit about twelve people comfortably in our living room tonight. We tend to trip over each other in the kitchen, but so far that hasn't been a problem.

All four of us are so terribly domestic, it's really quite sad. I'm living with three of my best friends. The last three years, we've all lived on the same floor in traditional style res. This isn't a big change, except that we have a living room instead of sitting in the hallway and we don't have to share bathrooms with twenty people. And we have a kitchen.

Here's a couple of pics of the new abode, and two of my roommates (the one looking out the window is just hanging out):









My courses are equally awesome. Welsh, Medieval Gaelic Religious Poetry and Prose, Irish Bardic Poetry, creative writing. So far, only had Welsh (phonetic! No cases!) and Poetry and Prose (Scottish prof! Awesome accent!), but I'm so stoked for the rest.

Will pick up the needles again this weekend. Have a weekend-long knitting, JAG, NCIS, and thesis proposal marathon planned with the Mad-ster. It's the cabled mittens that I'm working on, and they look great. The cable's just small enough that the pattern isn't driving me crazy, but gives the mittens a bit of class. After trying to make the thumb gusset increases make sense to me, I went with an afterthought thumb instead. Had to kind of guess at the placement, but I think it'll work out. We'll see.

And now, to bed.

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