We finally had snow, at the end of February but we have snow now.
Otherwise the weather has be rather warm for winter, this is not at all comfortable as it keeps raining. The Campus is much prettier with snow that with rain. The snow canceled both of my morning classes yesterday, so I slept in and then did work until my afternoon class.
On February 18th we had Drag Ball, Drag Ball is a large dance that happens every spring. It has a large number of men and women who are dressed in drag, with varying degrees of success.
So not photogenic, but the dress is sparkly!
We have a Lucius Malfoy pimp cane!
The knitting is progressing, no new pictures as is is large enough that the shawl resembles a giant blob.
Other news, wrote an entire short story, and have managed to reference Stargate and confuse people who eat with me.
Sunday was Missy's birthday so on Saturday night we had a party for her, the party was planned and prepared for in the space of two hours. Included in the party was trick candles and a chocolate pie, there were some oreos that were dunked in milk and eaten very quickly. Before cake we watched "The Secret of Kells" which was a very pretty movie.
We then proceeded to watch youtube movies for amusement, this never seems to end well.
The shawl is moving right along. I have over 200 stitches on the needles so far and am almost done the second skien of yarn.
The shawl, with pooling
The yarn that I am using is a nice variegated blue and green yarn and is pooling nicely.
The Naginata club is selling pocky as a fundraiser and it is rather fun to work on heckling people especially if you know them. The sales seem to be going pretty well and at around this point in the sales last semester we had completely sold out; this was due to not buying enough pocky.
Today was World Nutella Day and so to celebrate my friends and I had a Nutella and tea party, complete with fancy dress. Much Nutella and tea was consumed, good company was had by all.
The tea and nutella
The friends:
The awesome one/ The one with the lamps
The picture of the DJ (Co-Host/ Owner of the dorm room)
The awkward picture
Knitting has also been moving along quite well with over a foot on Missy's shawl and the yarn is working quite wonderfully for the pattern. The pattern is Milk Run Shawl found on Ravelry. For those who don't know Ravelry is an awesome website for knitters and crocheters.
The shawl, photo taken using photo booth and it is not the best picture ever.
The pattern is rather simple, as it calls for straight garter stitch though I have changed that to stockinette to save yarn and to make telling the sides from each other easier.
In other news the laundry got done and was even put away quickly, this is a major accomplishment as I really don't like doing laundry because it takes time and money. But on the positive side my wardrobe is constantly expanding as I raid the free bins for new clothing. Free bins are where other students put the clothes that they don't want for whatever reason and others take them to wear/ repurpose into other things. The use of the free bins have netted my friends many new clothes that are basically new and other highly useful things (lamps). I am the proud owner of a desktop gargoyle whose name is Sauron because his eyes glow red.
Hopefully this works
Also I officially dislike Super Bowl Sunday, too loud for proper concentration.
Wow I suck at updating. This was supposed to be written during J-term but today is the first day of classes instead.
J-Term is part of winter break at Mt. Holyoke College where we students can come back early and take fun classes and hangout with friends. This J-term I took no classes but did spend time with all of my friends who were here. This time included visiting every free bin on campus and getting clothing and other fun things, so much better then shopping. Some of my friends as a joke put 5 floor lamps into another friends room for her to find.
In other interesting news, I am now the proud owner of a Nintendo DS that I bought second hand off a friend; the DS has been wonderful to play with.
In naginata news, j-term was highly productive, two of the kohai went into bogu for the first time and learned some new kamae out of bogu as well as some happoburi. We also had a couple of practices that were preceded by vigorous sandings of all of the habu (blades) so that splinters could be removed and to check on how much damage has been done so that we can know what habu are more likely to break. Me and the captain got to practice the engi forms 6-8 which was very nice as I am extremely rusty on those.
On the knitting side, I crocheted a cowl for cold weather, worked on my sweater, started a cover from my DS, started a hat that is supposed to be for someone (I get paid) but due to not getting details on the hat am unable to finish the hat base before adding cat features, and my Dad's birthday present. I deconstructed a scarf I found in the free bin and have been using the yarn and the yarn knits and crochets up quite nicely.
Case for Nintendo DS
The weather right now is rather bipolar, we had approximately 6 inches of snow in total and most of it has disappeared from heat and rain. We have had more unseasonably warm days than normal weather which is really annoying. The warmth is rather nice in the sense of I can go outside without a winter jacket on, of course this is offset by the fact that the windows in my room seem to be sucking all of the heat out.
Saw the second season of Sherlock (BBC) and could they have made that scene any longer. It was painful enough but then we had to stretch it out for as long as possible to make the ending as horrible as possible, and what is with that cemetery scene, really you are going to do that to us and then end the season.
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
The actor who plays Watson will be Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit movie and the actor who plays Sherlock will be Smaug apparently
Currently working on hats for my mom who wants them for charity, she had to buy me the yarn so it all works out. Other news, finished Cthulhu, the graduation list for Taylor and two hats for my mom.
So today we had rain and snow, sometimes together. It was not very pleasant to walk to classes in the cold water from the sky. On a positive note: finished sewing my Halloween costume; just need to get some red hair dye and dye all of my hair red.
Have a cold and am currently at war with my nose, stop bleeding already will you. I feel so sorry for professors during cold season due to the random nose blowing and coughing that occurs during class. Quite enjoy my Religion and Science Fiction class, will be wearing Halloween costume to class, hopefully without it raining. Got to read a book not related to class at all, and it was an young adult book but, whatever.
Making a friend an orange hat a scarf set, so much fun, must remember to take pictures.
The why to tell that some one has gone over the edge of geekiness is when they take a religion and science fiction class at college. The class is seriously one of the neatest classes ever, where else would you be assigned a piece of reading called the "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke, the universe ends at the end of the short story. Also this class has assigned movie watching, this includes Star Trek episodes. The fact that I can now say that I have discussed Star Trek, gender roles and religion all in the same class is for me a very good feeling, also I am now vindicated.
On the knitting from I am now crocheting a Cthulhu because I can and we read HP Lovecraft, also the other projects are coming along well.
Naginata continues to progress well, we have some new members and two of our members have recently tested and passed to the next rank.
For random stuff, there is a very good reason that I try to avoid spending large amounts of time on youtube is that I can find the weirdest things like Lovecraftian christmas carols and this:
Weather is evil, on the first 2 days of classes we had rain and then Friday and now today we have sunny warm weather. It is so much easier to do homework when the weather is crummy. Weather aside the homework objective for today has been met and now other business can be taken care of, like blogging and the other random things that need doing.
On the knitting front the gauntlets are continuing to progress and are for now my in class knitting which may change at a latter date to another project, also a Cthulu has been started on, he will be a kind of minty green in color.
In some very good news my bike is in full working trim after I had to bend the kickstand away from the wheel where it was rubbing and creating a horrible vibration. I now have my primary form of distance transportation back which will also help with getting to class faster, or meals.
On a random note the first official meeting of the naginata club is tonight and also I am having an enjoyable time playing with some figures and rubber ducks, the top of my printer was empty and looked lonely.
I have returned to Mt. Holyoke College for the year and am living in a great single. Saw many of my friends, there were many hugs and plans made. I finally finished decorating my room and now have posters on all of the walls, so now my room looks more like my room not a sterile place with nothing interesting going on. It is slightly odd to be living in a college dorm room without a roommate but the single has many perks, the only snoring will be yours, and you will not have to worry about what if your roommate(s) don't like your music.
One of my friends went to India and she brought me back some tea, which I am currently drinking. The tea is Nilgiris Orange Pekoe Leaf, this is a nice black tea that is slightly bitter but very good. Those who know me know that I am a bit of a tea addict, I have 13 different teas with me, some are only single servings of a tea. She also gave me 12 red bangles so now I jingle whenever my arm moves!
For the randomness, I now have a Gundam Wing sticker on my phone:
