good things
Even though it’s colder than %*&# (insert favorite expletive) outside things are good. I’m tired of the cold but who isn’t. At least it snowed a bit last night to justify the cold. We’re not surrounded by twenty feet of snow, like some people so a dusting is fine with me every week or so.
Things are good. Today I came home from class and decided, I’m going to make bread for my knitting group tonight (it’s a goal I have every week but sometimes just can’t manage) and just do what I want this afternoon. So I’ve been catching up on bloglines. I love blogland but don’t always feel I have the time to read everyone’s blogs. What I love about blogs is that I can read about someone I’ve never met but feel like I know them quite well from their blogs. It’s amazing that I “know” people all over the world that I’ve never met but would love to meet one day. When I read that someone’s pregnant I’m so overwhelmed with joy for them and when someone has a pet die, I find myself crying. I don’t comment on blogs as much as I should and hope to be better about it in the future.
Like I’ve said a few times now, things are good. I’m getting into a semi-routine with the semester, even though we’re in our six week of classes. Classes are going well. For my Media Literacy class, we have a portfolio we’re working on and we get to pick from a list of like ten things to do. I chose to interview an author or someone in the media that works with youth. So I emailed several authors that I’ve read recently. I didn’t expect to have the response that I did and also didn’t expect one particular author to respond as quickly as she did. She was the one that I figured wouldn’t respond and was sort of my “dream” interview. For my paper, I now have three authors and a children’s book editor.
My silk spinning class was great. It was really fun and I have a lot more confidence in spinning silk. I think silk hankies are probably my favorite just because fiber was the easiest to work with. I also really like the look of the yarn that I get from the hankies. We tried spinning several different types of silk - hankies, bombyx silk top and tussah silk top. I bought some bombyx silk in Maryland in 2006 that I’ve been afraid to spin. Now I think I’ll be spinning it up some day soon, I hope.
