Madness!

What an insane day, marathon meetings and annoyances pretty much non-stop. Right now I want to curl up someplace warm and cry. But I will remain strong, keep it together for another half hour, and get out of here at 8 and go home and pass out and start again tomorrow even more behind than I am now. Lovely.

The weekend was nice though. Harbin is a great place. Kind of a lot of hippies in not a lot of clothing, but it was peaceful and quiet and relaxing and I got a wonderful massage and feel so much more at peace with the world and with what I'm doing with my life. Hopefully I can hang on to that feeling long enough to get me through the move.

I spent most of the weekend lounging around, soaking in mineral pools, and knitting. I manged to design and start knitting the orenburg shawl for my brothers finance. Hurray! So far, so good. I really love this lace technique. It's so simple yet so elegant! And very easy to memorize. Which is a good thing.

And in even more exciting news, I found an apartment in Virginia! It's a little over 2 miles from campus, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, townhouse that looks out over a nice meadow thing. It's very cute, and I'm very excited. I'm already deciding which rooms need cable and which rooms I can just run wireless from. Very sad geek type behavior, I know, but it's fun.