August 9 - I thought I had posted this on Saturday, but just realized that I forgot to publish it.

First of all, thank you all for the congrats on my job. I start on Tuesday after we make a quick trip up to Madison, Wisconsin tomorrow just check it out. I’m thinking of applying to U of Wisconsin for school, in addition to, some other schools and we both thought this would be the perfect time to get away before the craziness of school and work get us.

My oh my, my week went by like a flash. I worked a lot of hours this week, shelving, weeding books and newspapers, and squeezing in some circulation training in there too. It was also a week of a friend over for dinner, a knitbrarian package in the mail and a Georgie cat having some teeth pulled.

Monday evening, Bryan’s friend M from grad school was in town and we had him over for dinner. Tuesday was an interesting day. George went in for a dental treatment and they pulled two teeth. He lost his front right canine because of a nasty infection that was at the root. The vet said it was one of the grossest things she’d ever seen, considering she’s a vet it must have been really gross. George came home and was walking around like he was drunk all Tuesday evening. He was really sweet and sleepy that night. I spent part of the evening reading with him cuddled up on my chest. Fortunately, we now know the reason he may have been biting us a lot, I think I might bite too if my teeth hurt a lot and I couldn’t talk. Upon arriving home that afternoon, there was a package from knitbrarian for winning her haiku contest. This gorgeous Fleece Artist sock yarn that she sent has inspired me to dig out the “Go with the Flow” socks and work on them so that I can knit with the beautiful yarn she sent. When I was showing the yarn to Bryan he pointed out that the yarn is from Nova Scotia, a place special to us because we spent our honeymoon there.

When Friday came, I was exhausted but excited that it was my last day of shelving. When I got home Friday, I felt fully entitled to sit, catch up on Days of Our Lives and knit. While we watched one of my favorite movies, Party Girl, (the best librarian movie ever made) I finished a dishcloth that I started Thursday morning and had only knit two rows of, it’s for a co-worker who is moving.

Last night, we made a quick trip to the grocery store and Hobby Lobby. I needed a different color for another dishcloth for the co-worker who is leaving. As we were walking out of Hobby Lobby, I said, “I can’t believe I’m mostly buying yarn at Hobby Lobby now.” I used to be such a yarn snob and still am in some sense, but the fact that I have so much cheap cotton in my stash now is very amusing to me. It has given me an idea of a perfect project for my beginning knitting class that starts in September.

Today, I’ve spent part of the day reviewing blogs for the Midwest Knitters blog ring, checking the ring links and knitting while the sites load up. Amie mentioned it on her blog and I thought I should get part of it done today. Waiting for each site to load is so slow on dial-up. I long for the day when we can afford high-speed internet. It’s been weird to go through all of these blogs and not see links to my blog on blogs where I know there was once a link. Oh well, tastes change, I know I don’t read as many blogs as I used to.

Somewhere in all of this, I’ve also managed to finish yet another book - A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. I had originally checked out Rebel Angels by the same author only to find that it’s the sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty. So I went and checked out A Great and Terrible Beauty from the library and finished it in about four days and then restarted Rebel Angels. I think the heat is not melting my brain but giving me the ability to read faster.

Now if I could just get myself to knit on some of the required knitting. The Log Cabin blanket has two border edges completed and another one is in progress. With the heat, the idea of handling that blanket makes me crazy. Then there is the knitting group project that needs to get done soon too. I’ve been so into baby bibs and washcloths lately that it feels weird to knit on something like a sock where I sort of have to pay attention.