Yesterday I got to my knitalong at Smith's, plopped down, complained about the 2 page (single-spaced) paper and exam I had to study for by 10 am this morning, and my knitting buddies promptly sent me home. I finished my exam, but I still have a 6-8 page paper to finish and a presentation to do before tomorrow night at 8 pm.
It's been that kind of week.
As an antidote, I've been working on a little Akimbo (rav link, normal link) for another knitalong at Smith's. It's Mountain Colors Crazyfoot, and I've been enjoying the hell out of knitting it. It's a really gorgeous deep brown with shots of turquoise and magenta throughout - some of my favorite colors, but nicely mitigated by the brown.
Next week is similarly terrible, but I hope to start posting again regularly soon! I had some new jeans come in the mail because my normal ones are shredded to pieces, and have been for going on six months. Fingers crossed that they fit and I can share them in one of my next postings.
Also: I almost wrote a post solely about the subject last Saturday, but decided not to. Last Friday morning I woke up to the news of the earthquake in northeastern Japan, and since then the whole East Asian Studies department has been sitting on the edge of its seat making sure all of the faculty and students in Japan right now are okay. All of my friends are in the Kansai region, so there's no direct damage, but I've also heard from some of my Japanese friends who are fine but deeply worried. I've heard conflicting reports on how worried we should be, since the US media is jumping on it as a doomsday-style catastrophe. I've basically been experiencing gratitude that it wasn't worse, but also awe at the sheer force of nature, sadness for those who were lost, and good thoughts for the people who are displaced without food, water or electricity. I hope everyone will continue to send whatever types of support they can to the people of Japan, be it good thoughts, prayers, or material goods.
Stay safe out there.
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