My homework avoidance project the last couple of weeks has been a snuggly warm sweater from Knitscene (the Charm Wrap if you really care), using some of my handspun yarn. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not, but it's done! Mostly. I still have to sew it all together and do a few more inches of belt, but the knitting is done. Assuming that all goes well this week, I should be able to wear it next week. Hurray! I'm really happy with how it's turned out. The pattern was easy to do, though I don't like they way they wrote or formatted the directions for the side shaping. It was really hard to follow, mostly because it was impossible to read. The end result is nice though, and looks like it should fit well. I did a size larger than I actually need because the yarn worked up at a slightly tighter gauge, so it'll be a little roomy but that's ok for this sort of thing I think. I'll post pictures once I get it sewn together, and find the ever elusive cable for the camera.
In other news, school carries on. Being a grad student seriously sucks. I had yet another panic attack last night after catching site of the latest pile of bills I have to pay. The being in school part isn't so bad, it's the whole not having any money and having to eat beans and rice and ramen noodles that I can't quite get over. It's scary. I'm more frightened than I have been since I was out of work and my unemployment ran out. That was an all-time low point in my life so far, and I keep finding myself back in the same head space these days, which does not help things at all. I know intellectually that this is all just temporary, it'll get better soon, and that I won't starve, but I hate the feeling that the bills are piling up, the debt is mounting, and for every bill I can pay there are 2 others waiting someplace that I've either forgotten about or simply don't have the ability to deal with. Objectively, it's probably not as bad as all that, but I'm seriously looking perspective when it comes to the whole money thing.
I am at least adjusting to life in Virginia. I've fallen completely in love with the fall colors. They tell me this year is rather drab, but to my eyes it's spectacular. Every day on my way to school, I marvel at the changing shades of red and amber. The trees near my house look like every shade of amber there is right now, not brown, but rich gold's and bronzes and dusky reds and fiery orange. It amazes me to see these colors on living things.
Now I must go and write a lease. For parking spaces. Which, given that I moved here from San Francisco, where there is no parking to be had for love or money, seems rather appropriate. But still, a lease? I have no idea what to put in a lease.
1 comment:
I took a quick peek at the Charm Wrap and those cuffs and hem look beautiful!
Don't think too much about money and try to concentrate on the good things right now. I know how difficult it is to cope with little or no money, I was virtually penniless a few years ago and the bills kept piling up. But it will get better. I survived, and so will you :)
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