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Tomorrow S and perhaps Å are coming here for that knitting/crocheting/etc evening. And that fact just makes me regret soooo much that I don't have a male friend who I can teach how to [insert your preferred yarn technique] and who'll spend evenings making mittens or whatever while casually chatting with mememeeeeee ( Read more... )

Today I made уха бурлацкая and it was very good. Very easy to cook (I made some minor alterations, like for example KEEPING THE ONION - I mean, why would anyone want to not eat the onion?) and very quick. Perhaps quick because I didn't prepare anything in advance but had to do everything extreeemely quickly to keep up. Since I am not very good at ( Read more... )

There was absolutely nothing on TV so I decided to watch the French musical I got for Christmas from one of my French friends. Le Roi Soleil. I like the songs, French is pretty when sung and I especially like the Je fais de toi mon essentiel-song. When sung, edges are blurred, kind of like with casual speech. However, I HATE the spoken parts of ( Read more... )

Why did the new issue of Knitty have to come out today and TEMPT ME TO DEATH? Aaaaaaaaaa! Will I get any Arabic done tonight before my test tomorrow? Will I stay up and knit until 2AM ( Read more... )

All these things to do. The Arabic class is still just one big mess. I so regret not taking it at Uppsala (I think theirs is a distance class as well), as I'm sure they'd handle things better. I have confidence in Uppsala University, not in Umeå University. Oh well. At least I am forced to learn something. Since I have no idea of what we are ( Read more... )

They have increased the price of one of my favorite yarns with 27%.
Need I say more?
ARGH!