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

Weird stuff I have done

Most of what I do in my spare time is sleep, that is because I don't really have spare time but, every so often there is something that I have to do as part of a club or just cause I can. Today it was narrate at a naginata demo during a Sakura Matsuri at Smith College. To get to Smith I rode the bus in full uniform complete with dragonfly patch and name tag. It was rather fun, slightly odd sitting in the seats because the knots of the hakama dig in if the seat has a back. Once I got to Smith and the club and I got all of our stuff together they demonstrated stuff and I narrated. I was rather fun.

There was food as well, I got to make onigiri for the first time, they were rather tasty and fun to make. Also you could eat mochi and drink barley tea. The tea was quite good.

The naginata club was selling pocky to fundraise and did quite well in that. There were a couple of people who had brought a collection of kimono and yukata for people to dress up in. I got to wear a kimono and it was rather comfy. A kimono is generally silk and lined while a yukata is cotton and unlined (generally).

I also got bored and the Friday before I dyed my ponytail blue. See the two tones of my hair in the above pictures, that is the cause. 

On the knitting front I am crocheting a shawl for myself to wear to my brothers college graduation. It is red and is lace. I am using some red yarn that I got on sale at Webs. Pictures will come later.

Spring has arrived

Spring is officially here in all of it crazy weather glory. The week of Spring break was like summer then the weather went back to normal, now the temperatures are starting to go back up to normal temperatures. The turtles in Lower Lake are coming out onto the partially submerged logs to sunbathe.

Turtles

Also my puppies came to visit me, with my parents. It was my first time meeting the younger Luna.

Luna, the puppy who can't stay still

After they visited me we all went to my brothers track meet, and watched him run. Luna especially liked it because everyone petted her.

The naginata club had some guests so we had lots of really good training, and much fun also. The knitting has changed to crocheting a shawl for myself for attending my brothers graduation. The gift shawl was finished over Spring Break.

Blocking on my bed

I have a fort!

It is spring break and today is blanket cave day! So I made a fort, it uses most of my sheets, all of my blankets (and I mean all), my pillows, most of my furniture, and a large amount of tape.

Its amenities include: light, electricity, internet, computer, tea, stuffed animals, more electronics, padding on the floor, two exits, and complete privacy.

The computer set up, with tea.

It is quite comfortable in my fort, as long as I remember about the desk.

In not so pleasant news, some one on my floor thought it would be a good idea to have an extreme party last night. The managed to make it to the bathroom to puke, they didn't make it to the toilet though.

Later today I will be going grocery shopping to get stuff to make dinner and other meals so I don't starve to death.

Other interesting news, I have completely caught up on my sleep. And my crochet blanket continues to grow, as does the shawl. 

Aren't you proud of me Grandma?

Nothing to random today but here is something I found.

For all of your problems. Actually from a computer game.

SPRING

Spring has officially arrived, the temperature has risen over 60 degrees on more than one occasion. Midterms have also started and the semester is half way done. Spring Break is next week and people are already sun-bathing.

The anual spring flower show at the green houses has started and there are lots of flowers.

So many flowers. The theme of the show is wine, they didn't have any actual wine though.

Crocheting a blanket because I can and it seems to be going faster than when I knit blankets. I need to learn how to do granny squares. Pictures will be coming.

In a fight is was voted that Spock will beat Sherlock Holmes (There was voting involved).

PI day

It is pi day today.  3.14 or March 14th.

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