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arguchikREADING: Still working on Cloud's End by Sean Stewart. That's the only extra-curricular reading I'm doing right now.
WATCHING: Watched the end of Doctor Who, season 1 last night. I really liked the chemistry between Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, so I'm somewhat sad about David Tennant taking over. And of course I already know that he's leaving the series shortly, so I'll probably get used to him and come to like him and then he'll leave too. And so it goes. I like that about the Doctor, though; it's a cool conceit, to have a character that doesn't die but instead becomes someone else.
PLANNING: I guess I'm going to the CI this evening. I'm going to Bothell this afternoon to pick up the last batch of student portfolios. Other than that, it will be a weekend of grading.
KNITTING: Still working on the red cardigan for my mom. The first sleeve is done now. Yesterday I spent some time going through and cataloging my yarn stash, photographing it, and uploading pics to my Flickr site and to my Ravelry stash pages. I still have a little bit more to do, but my I can't seem to find my camera battery charger anywhere. I can't for the life of me remember where I put it. Oh, and I joined a group on Ravelry called NaKniSweMoDo--National Knit a Sweater a Month Dodecathon--which means that I am setting a goal of knitting one adult-sized sweater per month this year. That's a lot of knitting. It will help me with my New Year's resolution, though, which is to knit down my yarn stash! Yeah. I have enough yarn to knit 10 sweaters, plus several pairs of socks. (Actually, I technically have yarn for another couple of sweaters but it's yarn that I hate knitting with and plan to get rid of--mercerized cotton, which knits up pretty but is hell on my hands; and cotton chenille which is also hell on my hands but knits up for crap, thus has no redeeming value.) So that's what I'm going to be knitting this year: sweaters and socks. I'll be working on the sweaters primarily at home and at Purlygirls, and the socks will be my new bus knitting projects as soon as I finish up the two scarves I'm working on. (One is almost done. The other is only about 2 feet long right now.)
WATCHING: Watched the end of Doctor Who, season 1 last night. I really liked the chemistry between Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, so I'm somewhat sad about David Tennant taking over. And of course I already know that he's leaving the series shortly, so I'll probably get used to him and come to like him and then he'll leave too. And so it goes. I like that about the Doctor, though; it's a cool conceit, to have a character that doesn't die but instead becomes someone else.
PLANNING: I guess I'm going to the CI this evening. I'm going to Bothell this afternoon to pick up the last batch of student portfolios. Other than that, it will be a weekend of grading.
KNITTING: Still working on the red cardigan for my mom. The first sleeve is done now. Yesterday I spent some time going through and cataloging my yarn stash, photographing it, and uploading pics to my Flickr site and to my Ravelry stash pages. I still have a little bit more to do, but my I can't seem to find my camera battery charger anywhere. I can't for the life of me remember where I put it. Oh, and I joined a group on Ravelry called NaKniSweMoDo--National Knit a Sweater a Month Dodecathon--which means that I am setting a goal of knitting one adult-sized sweater per month this year. That's a lot of knitting. It will help me with my New Year's resolution, though, which is to knit down my yarn stash! Yeah. I have enough yarn to knit 10 sweaters, plus several pairs of socks. (Actually, I technically have yarn for another couple of sweaters but it's yarn that I hate knitting with and plan to get rid of--mercerized cotton, which knits up pretty but is hell on my hands; and cotton chenille which is also hell on my hands but knits up for crap, thus has no redeeming value.) So that's what I'm going to be knitting this year: sweaters and socks. I'll be working on the sweaters primarily at home and at Purlygirls, and the socks will be my new bus knitting projects as soon as I finish up the two scarves I'm working on. (One is almost done. The other is only about 2 feet long right now.)
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Date: 2008-12-12 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-13 10:42 pm (UTC)As for the series from hell, it was Twilight. There were some people whose feelings I didn't want to hurt by sharing on LJ, because it was a bday present. That's why I read the whole series even though I should have stopped at the highly offensive part when Bella's bf leaves her and she goes nearly suicidal, yet still without having any recognizable emotions. Or the part where she and her dad have "the sex talk" and everyone is embarrassed and no one mentions condoms. Shall I go on? Grrrr. We're watching the movie today, and then I'll write an article about it for Intersections.
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Date: 2008-12-13 11:34 pm (UTC)I haven't read the books. My niece is really into them. I am skeptical because the author is apparently very Mormon. Also, I don't like how much she fucks with vampire mythology (assuming the film is true to the books in that regard).