Welcome to my journal~  This is where I post stuff that goes on in my life, as well as knitting content and book reviews.  My old blog, which can be found here, is no longer updated; I decided I like LJ better. However, some of my writing is still there, as well as past book reviews and some "About the author" stuff, so feel free to poke around.
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Nothing terribly exciting, that is.  Y'all get some knit-chat instead.

Someone asked me the other day how I get so much knitting done as a full-time Honors student with eighteen credit hours.  The short answer is, I multitask.  I knit in the car, I knit in the lunch line, I knit while waiting for stuff to load on the computer, I knit while waiting ( Read more... )

When I was in sixth grade, I tried every possible method to get out of going to the middle school retreat.  Almost to the point of making myself sick so I could stay home.  My best friend (Ashley from the "Dear Ashley" posts) had just left Ridgeville because of financial issues, and I hadn't met anyone else I really clicked with yet, and I wasn't ( Read more... )

Okay, this is kinda dumb, but it can tell a lot about a person.

You're packing up for college, ready to start off on the next stage in your life.  (If you're done with college, pretend you're moving into an apartment.)  One of the things you want to take is books - not textbooks, but books you can kick back and read just to have some fun and relax.

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Here goes...

( 12/16 Cut inserted now )

To my maternal grandmother (whom I love deeply and have naught but great respect for):

You are a wonderful person.  I respect your wisdom of 75-odd years, I admire your "c'est la vie" approach to the crazy things we kids do, and I'm so glad you can handle all the stress of holiday prep.  All that aside, I have a few pointers to give you to further ( Read more... )

A meme of my own invention - okay, my AP English teacher's invention.

In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, each of the characters had a brief paragraph of introduction.  This is the format for the meme:

First name,
Four adjectives that describe you
"Friend of" four people/things
"Lover of" three people/things
"Who felt" three things
"Who needed" three things
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Stolen from Freshman-chan (known to the rest of you as CJ).  New book review up in the Den, BTW.

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I just got this paper from the office today...

Unweighted GPA: 4.21
Unweighted Class rank: 2 (out of 88) - tied with one other person.

Weighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted Class rank: 1 (out of 88) - tied with 12 other people.

XDDDD  Hahahaha, serves them all right.  "Fresh slate" whut?  "Science doesn't agree with her" whut?  (Yes, I got that from my chemistry ( Read more... )

( I tag... Janette. )