Work, tea, and geekery

I started my summer job at the library last week, and it has been taking up most of my time. My evenings are mostly spent reading, watching movies and generally being antisocial. Working at a small town library is rather fun as you get to know many of the regulars, or you already know them from other places. 

The Library

 

The children section has a boat called Booklogged

Beyond work I have been drinking large amounts of tea, especially in the mornings. Mostly drinking black and green teas. I have a black tea from Kenya that makes a wonderful iced tea, it has the right amount of bitter and flavor to hold up to being cold. It is best if made in my glass jar in the sun. The green tea that I drink the most is a pomegranate green tea so that it doesn't get really bitter but also not too sweet or fruity.

My random geekery of the week was partitioning the hard drive of my laptop. Most of the partitioning was spent with me growling at my computer to work and basically bribing it alternating with swearing at it. It had to restart all the time. 

 Now I can run Windows 7 or my regular Mac OSX! Also I can play Battle for Middle-Earth again.

The making of my army continues, I have completed one Weeping Angel and it is rather cute. My cat liked it so much she licked it multiple times, I thought that she was going to eat it briefly.

They get along well.

So I guess that my cat will be using my army to get rid of the dogs.

In other crafting news, one of my coworkers is pregnant so I am crocheting her a baby blanket and if I have time I will knit a sweater. The blanket is a rather easy and somewhat mindless stitch to do so it is a good pattern for when I am on the computer. My mom is getting another scarf for her birthday, I say another because she keeps requesting the scarf in different yarns. This will be her third scarf of this pattern.

This is her first scarf in the pattern. Mom is not the penguin.

My mom was out somewhere and found this:

Yes those are toilets as a rainbow, some with stuff growing in them. Somedays Maine is really entertaining to live in. It is also really pretty when the weather is nice and the bugs aren't out.

Exams

The end of the semester is here. That means exams and final papers. All done with my exams and my short story, just need to pack my room and leave and I will be done for the semester.

No I am not dancing in my room, maybe I should. Sleep depravation has a tendency to make me weirder than normal. I checked my naginata against my bed, the naginata is longer than the bed; it was about half a foot difference. Not sure why I decided that I had to check.

Little bit of explanations for finals for those not at my college. Finals time at my college is where people sometimes lock themselves into their work places and only leave to take final exams, pass stuff in, eat and go to the bathroom. Showering is sometimes left by the wayside, yes I do shower regularly. Also in the dorms from the start of reading days to the end of exam periods we have constant M&C's (Milk and Cookies, there are generally not that many cookies); the best part of this is that the access to caffeine goes up so less sleep is required.

Part of my plans for the Summer is to make myself an army

Not an army like Loki's, an army of Weeping Angels from Doctor Who.

My army of crocheted minions will happen, then I will take over my room, maybe my brothers, not sure about my plans for conquest yet.

Other than that I will attempt to finish some of my current knitting projects, like my sweater.

In other news, the naginata club had its end of the semester dinner last week. It was very sad, we said goodbye to my first Captain and it was horrible, she can't leave.

The team minus a couple

I gave her the shawl that I knit for her and she liked it.

Then I went to my brothers graduation. I need to get my Mom to send me the pictures. I had to buy some new shoes, so I bought some leather ankle boots with heels that are glorious. The actual ceremony was boring the only highlight was geting to listen to General Colin Powell speak. He was amusing and a very good speaker. Other than that it was boring, long and you couldn't see anything.

This was about how I felt