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Today I rather hate the world. It is not helped by the fact that I am of course tired, and back on the diet, and just generally not pleased to be at work.
The weekend was fine; we went to Dayton and hung out with folks, but I apparently expected us to get starting with the gaming, and that wasn't really the point of the weekend. The point of the weekend seemed to simply be to decide what we wanted to play, and if possible, to make characters. Since we decided on Deadlands, a game no one had the books for at the time (.pdfs are a bit harder to read and flip through, especially when there is only one copy and five people who need it), character creation could be discussed but not exactly accomplished.
I knitted a few more rows on the shawl, and I'm nearly to the end of the first go-round of the Barege pattern (chart C). It's taking a good bit longer (780 stitches), and I'm getting impatient. I can't see my progress, and it doesn't seem to be getting any bigger (even though there is a definite lace panel growing out from the more solid center). It takes a good long time to get all the way around, and to be honest, the lace pattern is beginning to get a little old. It's the same basic 6-stitch repeat, with yarn-overs and a S2KP shifted to the beginning or end of those 6 stitches. Nothing new or interesting except for the beginning and end of each section, when I try to remember how many stitches should be left over and hope I didn't screw up earlier. I knit for a while, and then I just seem to put it down. At least I finished up another ball of yarn and am nearly ready to join on a new one. Perhaps I'll do that at lunch.
My nails are black. Since I bit them all off a week or so ago, I was at the store with Nyte before we left for Dayton and I was looking for nailpolish. I've gotten the same sort of pale pink sparkle/shine stuff the last four or five times I bought nailpolish, and found myself reaching for another variety of the same. Gotta stop that; so I found some black and put it on last night. Black isn't as scary on short nails. They already need touching-up.
The pod is kicking something fierce today. I don't think it liked the Atkins bar I ate most of.
Lots of work to be done, don't wanna. Simple as that. Was here early and will be here late, and for some reason that is really, really galling. Am probably being a big baby. Am tempted to be dramatic, except it is Nyte's first day at his new assignment and I have no car with which to drive myself home, and also it may be a little lame to invent a sickness for no good reason. I myself call it "mental health", but seeing as we need the money and I've already used up all my PTO and sick time on vacation, it really isn't a viable option. Insert expletive of choice here.
Ravelry.com invites are going faster. Only 5,500 people in front of me now. More than twice that waiting in line after me.
Ate my soup. Am still hungry. :( There wasn't any protein in it to speak of. I have nuts, still, but....I want other things that would make me sick. And also, to leave the building.
And also, apparently, to whine incessantly.
The weekend was fine; we went to Dayton and hung out with folks, but I apparently expected us to get starting with the gaming, and that wasn't really the point of the weekend. The point of the weekend seemed to simply be to decide what we wanted to play, and if possible, to make characters. Since we decided on Deadlands, a game no one had the books for at the time (.pdfs are a bit harder to read and flip through, especially when there is only one copy and five people who need it), character creation could be discussed but not exactly accomplished.
I knitted a few more rows on the shawl, and I'm nearly to the end of the first go-round of the Barege pattern (chart C). It's taking a good bit longer (780 stitches), and I'm getting impatient. I can't see my progress, and it doesn't seem to be getting any bigger (even though there is a definite lace panel growing out from the more solid center). It takes a good long time to get all the way around, and to be honest, the lace pattern is beginning to get a little old. It's the same basic 6-stitch repeat, with yarn-overs and a S2KP shifted to the beginning or end of those 6 stitches. Nothing new or interesting except for the beginning and end of each section, when I try to remember how many stitches should be left over and hope I didn't screw up earlier. I knit for a while, and then I just seem to put it down. At least I finished up another ball of yarn and am nearly ready to join on a new one. Perhaps I'll do that at lunch.
My nails are black. Since I bit them all off a week or so ago, I was at the store with Nyte before we left for Dayton and I was looking for nailpolish. I've gotten the same sort of pale pink sparkle/shine stuff the last four or five times I bought nailpolish, and found myself reaching for another variety of the same. Gotta stop that; so I found some black and put it on last night. Black isn't as scary on short nails. They already need touching-up.
The pod is kicking something fierce today. I don't think it liked the Atkins bar I ate most of.
Lots of work to be done, don't wanna. Simple as that. Was here early and will be here late, and for some reason that is really, really galling. Am probably being a big baby. Am tempted to be dramatic, except it is Nyte's first day at his new assignment and I have no car with which to drive myself home, and also it may be a little lame to invent a sickness for no good reason. I myself call it "mental health", but seeing as we need the money and I've already used up all my PTO and sick time on vacation, it really isn't a viable option. Insert expletive of choice here.
Ravelry.com invites are going faster. Only 5,500 people in front of me now. More than twice that waiting in line after me.
Ate my soup. Am still hungry. :( There wasn't any protein in it to speak of. I have nuts, still, but....I want other things that would make me sick. And also, to leave the building.
And also, apparently, to whine incessantly.