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I'm finally home from Coronet. I am exhausted. This was definitely a working event for both me and Alex. I'm sitting here trying to remember everything that happened, with a happily-purring cat on my lap and a new, shiny medallion around my neck, and everything is sort of out of order in my head. I think my nose is sunburned, and I haven't had ( Read more... )

I have lots and lots to say about stuff in general, but I don't have the time just now. I hope to do some serious updating within the next couple of days. Right now, life is just plain crazy. I'm feeling a lot of pressure from several different directions. If I wasn't in grad school, I could handle the rest of the stuff easily. With grad ( Read more... )

First, the good news. I went to visit the lovely fearga at the costume shop. While there, I got to chatting with some of the nifty ladies there, and one of them noticed that I was knitting. She mentioned that she had gotten a fabulous score of four balls of handspun, hand-dyed alpaca yarn at an auction for $15. While I was envying her purchase, she ( Read more... )

So, today is my third wedding anniversary.

It is also the last day of final exams for Alex and me, so Alex is studying.

We also have to go to a meeting this afternoon.

In the immortal words of Queen Elizabeth I, "This sucketh. That's it; no cushy royal endorsement for thee this year ( Read more... )