Thesis Monster

Haven't posted much lately. Haven't knit much lately. Last week I think I picked up the needles once or twice. It's that time of year again, that magically time when university students build nests in the darkened, out-of-the-way corners of libraries, from photocopied articles and discarded essay drafts. They retreat into the nests and only emerge, blinking in the thin winter sunlight, when classes are over. Some will remain in this caffeine-fuelled state of suspension for weeks longer through the exam period.

Finished one draft of a paper due next Friday, haven't even started writing a term paper for my seminar class, have ten pages of a forty-plus creative writing assignment finished, and my thesis, for which I have to rewrite my proposal and refocus my research, making the last two months of work I've done on it useless because my advisor is a douchebag who has been more hinderance than help.

Anyway.

Have four projects on the needles, two are in definite hibernation until after my papers are written. Exam period is, for me, three exams in a two week period with dick-all to do in between. Lots and lots of knitting time. It's the desert in the ocean that's getting me through right now. One has a deadline of December 3rd, so I've been plugging away on that, and the other is a new project I cast on Wednesday for Lumberjill. As part of the Selfish Knitter Destash Swap, she sent me ten sets of bamboo double-pointed needles - well, a couple are plastic, but sooooo nifty and shiny and pretty - and all she asked for in return was that I love them and hug them and call them George. And a pair of Evangline fingerless gloves.

No picture yet, but I increased the length of the cuff to keep tucked away more easily in sleeves and just finished the first cable repeat. Using the same Briggs & Little in blue heather as for my Highland Shawl. Gonna be sooooo warm. I kind of like adding the little regional touch of a Nova Scotian yarn with a Canadian pattern. The name 'Evangeline' never ceases to remind me of the Acadian regions of this province, either.

I have taken a long enough break from thesis. Back to the salt mines.

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