November Day 11

This will have no knitting in it, you were warned.

Today and most of yesterday I helped to put on an unofficial naginata seminar. There were the regular drills that one always does, then there were the variations and the new things to learn. Some things that I learned were corrections on things that I had been taught that were wrong. We also learned some game that are very fun to play and watch people play. At the end of each day there was a practice test to see how much people improved and what they needed to still work on, I was announcing what was going on. I didn't do too badly at it either, I did mess up every so often though. Pictures time.

Naginata games = amusement

rock paper scissors

Warming up on the second day

I will put of the video of part of the first day that I took as well as the pictures of the beaver that I took tonight later. No knitting was completed this weekend, no spinning.

November Day 10

Very tired, help run a successful naginata seminar/long practice today. Some video and pictures will be posted soon. Much has been learned and people have improved so much over what they had been.

November Day 9

Well I have already missed a day, oops.  Didn't mean to do that, got a little caught up in doing my homework. Things that have been accomplished today: passed in a video for a class, a paper in another class, cleaned my room, cut my hair, talked with people about multiple things, got even more paranoid then normal. No knitting has been completed so far today due to talking and cleaning. The lack of working with fiber is driving my stress levels even higher then normal. I like gifs they can explain my state of mind so much better then I can with words.

The paranoia is mostly warranted, I think. Trying to deal with certain things is like herding cats that have all had catnip and hate everything.

In better things, yesterday I had free ice cream, it was pumpkin oreo and it was so good. It was so cold out that my plastic spoon broke though. 

This weekend I will be hosting a Naginata seminar at my college. Looking forward to it as well as dreading it a bit.

Naginata

Might not be as able to post this weekend as I would like, also likely to be even more boring then this.

November Day 7 or Winter is Coming

SNOW, ok, just had to get that out of my system. Yes it is snowing, and then the weather people say that it is going to rain which will not be so fun. Mostly just sitting in my room watching the snow fall, enjoying the heating, not so much the view because that is grey.

There's snow there, I promise

In really good news, Obama won! And Maine has marriage equality (hopefully to stay).

Apparently instead of stress eating I now stress spin since I got Merlin. I ended up making 3 small skeins of yarn while listening to election results and learned to Andean ply. Andean plying is kind of amusing to do, I do need to work on my technique a little bit so that I have better control of my yarn.

Drying 

Hanks sitting on my bed

Much work has been done on Grandma's hat, more to go.

It will be a hat, I swear it will be.

I won a $25 gift certificate to Amazon for completing a survey, buying fiber with it. We shall see how this goes.

Just because I can, and I am banned from xmas carols before Thanksgiving.

Beyond that, nothing interesting at all.

November Day 6 or Election Day

For all of my readers in the US if you have not voted already go do so ASAP. Personally I voted a while ago, absentee ballot, just because this is when I get a say in who run things in the national level and the local level. Also why are human rights up for the vote, just legalize same-gender marriage already Maine. Seriously you would think that this would be legal, it was for a while but there was a citizens veto. I am probably stay up way to late tonight due to watching the results come in. On a more amusing election note, my college has lots of geeks.

Sorry, can't vote for him, wrong side of the ocean.

Me and my Star Wars shirt

My parents sent me my fiber stuff so Merlin is actually spinning things now! Also included in the package was tea, chocolate and other assorted goodies.

Goodies, and backpack

In other news, I hate humanity less right now. The weather looks really nice out but it is cold outside.  Also there have been some sightings of the fighter jets flying overhead. In some really good news, my heat is on and working, my room no longer requires layers to function in! Don't know why it took so long.

November Day 5

Currently stressed and hating humanity in general.

No knitting progress made. I am currently very grumpy and hormones are making it worse.

November Day 4

Today sucked, that is all.

November Day 3 Or I bought a spinning wheel!

Today I went to the Fiber Fest as the Big E and it was so wonderful. There was so much yarn and fiber and things made from yarn and animals and stuff. I went with M's girlfriend and we walked around the whole thing and cooed at things, we looked at drop spindles and I coveted the spinning wheels. One of the best animals that we saw where the babydoll sheep.

Then we walked around some more, I got permission from my parents to buy a spinning wheel as my xmas present! I bought a HitchHiker from The Merlin Tree. It is a single treadle and is wonderful and lovely and it is named Merlin.

Of course I have none of my fiber with me at college, so my parents will hopefully be sending some to me. 

In other things, because we need really cool movies with strong women characters I give you the trailer for Hua Mulan, the live action Chinese movie about Mulan.

November Day 2

Today's post is mostly going to be pictures of some of the birds that hang around the campus in/around Lower Lake. There is Jorge, the heron, and a bird that looks to be a Double Crested Cormorant. Not actually sure if the last bird is actually a cormorant or not but according to google image search that is what it is.

Jorge the goose

The heron

Fishing

Double crested cormorant?

Beyond that most of what I am doing involves cleaning my room, and doing the laundry. Got the ok on the classes that I want to take next semester. I plan on getting some pleasure reading in tonight as I haven't be able to in some time.

Novemer Day 1

First official day of November, I will not be thinking up fun titles for 30 blog posts, I would never sleep then. The last post I did does not count for November as it was meant for October 31. 

Random news for the day, someone on my floor decided to smoke pot in their room yesterday night. They managed to not set off the smoke detectors however the hallway stunk, it is a problem because M is allergic and it stinks.

Oops meant this to be longer. So I decided to take pictures of works in progress, so here they are:

Grandma's Hat

The dishcloth

Other things that hang out in my dorm room:

My teapot and teacup, please ignore the desk mess

My orchid 

My jade plant that I rescued from a kitchenette last spring