Update
The first two weeks of uni are going pretty well. It took until Tuesday afternoon to get my timetable all finalised, but things are all good now. I have no classes Mondays and Wednesdays, which is nice. It looks like my three linguistics courses will be tremendous fun, though they'll have constant work for me to do. I'm still not as clear as I'd like to be on what will happen with my year-long IT project, though.
I've been reading Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy for the last few weeks. I'm not going to say much about it now, as I've taken some time off in the middle of book 3 for I am Legend (by Richard Matheson - for bookclub, which I couldn't go to because I wasn't feeling well enough to get there :( ). Suffice it to say that I'm finding the Soldier Son books quite intriguing, though not as good as the Farseer Trilogy or The Liveship Traders.
I've been knitting and tatting a lot these last couple of weeks, too. I tatted a pendant for katrina_splat, which was fun. I got good practice in designing a pattern, and good practice in tatting small shapes, as I had to make it twice! The beads I used the first time around turned out to be dodgy, and I didn't notice until after I'd finished it. In knitting, I've been working on my circular shawl. I can't remember if I posted about having to frog it - at about 50 rows (out of 160) I had to pull it all out because I'd mis-read the pattern. But it's going again! It's big enough now that you can't really see the full thing, but here's a glimpse:
I've had a pretty good couple of weeks - settling back into uni, knitting, going to Movieworld, Katrina's dinner, and the opening of a new yarn store. I'm sorry for being so slack about posting about it :)
Hope you've all been having a good couple of weeks too!
Oh, I almost forgot! I got a postcard from the Roman Forum! Thanks, Eleanor :)
Also forgot to mention that I saw Watchmen last week. Thought about the same of it as I did of the graphic novel - really good, but... This morning I found this through metaquotes - it may amuse Watchmen fans.
I've been reading Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy for the last few weeks. I'm not going to say much about it now, as I've taken some time off in the middle of book 3 for I am Legend (by Richard Matheson - for bookclub, which I couldn't go to because I wasn't feeling well enough to get there :( ). Suffice it to say that I'm finding the Soldier Son books quite intriguing, though not as good as the Farseer Trilogy or The Liveship Traders.
I've been knitting and tatting a lot these last couple of weeks, too. I tatted a pendant for katrina_splat, which was fun. I got good practice in designing a pattern, and good practice in tatting small shapes, as I had to make it twice! The beads I used the first time around turned out to be dodgy, and I didn't notice until after I'd finished it. In knitting, I've been working on my circular shawl. I can't remember if I posted about having to frog it - at about 50 rows (out of 160) I had to pull it all out because I'd mis-read the pattern. But it's going again! It's big enough now that you can't really see the full thing, but here's a glimpse:
I've had a pretty good couple of weeks - settling back into uni, knitting, going to Movieworld, Katrina's dinner, and the opening of a new yarn store. I'm sorry for being so slack about posting about it :)
Hope you've all been having a good couple of weeks too!
Oh, I almost forgot! I got a postcard from the Roman Forum! Thanks, Eleanor :)
Also forgot to mention that I saw Watchmen last week. Thought about the same of it as I did of the graphic novel - really good, but... This morning I found this through metaquotes - it may amuse Watchmen fans.