The elegant, delicate, and amazingly low-priced sterling silver Star of David necklace I ordered to wear for The Last Seder came in today. It is very pretty, if a little smaller than I pictured, and it inspires me to get cracking on my remaining Intercon costuming. I'm now working on figuring out my costume for Shadow Over Babylon. It's turning out ( Read more... )

Got Jared safely back to Brandeis yesterday. He gave me my anniversary present, a beautiful pair of earrings consisting of two triangular drops of blue stone set in silver. I'm going to guess that they're lapis. He found them in Ecuador when he was visiting the Galapagos. I really love them, and I'm wearing them today. Expect to see them frequently ( Read more... )

Yesterday the chain on my anniversary necklace broke. I was upset, but I comforted myself by saying that maybe now was an opportunity to make it shorter, which I'd come to believe would make it appear to better advantage. So today I took it in to the jeweler who repaired the broken pin in Jared's watch. He took one look at the chain and told me it ( Read more... )

Found out recently from Zachariah that I have not been doing the Crossfit.com workout exactly right. I misunderstood the indication of how many sets of each exercise one is supposed to do. I am a bit grouchy to hear this; it makes me feel like I wasted that time. I guess it wasn't a complete waste, as I was at least getting SOME exercise, but if I' ( Read more... )

Over break I bought myself two strands of freshwater pearls with holes bored in them for stringing on wire, and I made myself a necklace. I'm quite pleased with it, it's close-fitting and made of gray and white irregular pearls in the pattern of two pearls of one color, then one of the other, then two more of the first, alternated with the same ( Read more... )

I think I've figured out my costume for Miskatonic Class Reunion 2000. I want to wear all black, and look kind of somber but elegant. I've decided I'm going to wear this little black dress I have, but it doesn't have a back, and I don't want it to look that sexy, so I'm going to wrap my black pashmina around my shoulders. A delicate little necklace ( Read more... )

I probably should have avoided him entirely, because I tend to blow lots of money with he comes around, but that jeweler whose work I really like was on campus this week. I've been wanting a pair of earrings to go when I wear green, and so couldn't resist a lovely little set of peridots in a light, springy grass-color. They're very pretty, ovoid,  ( Read more... )

Several things should be on their way in the mail this week, and I'd be pleased to get any of them. The first is my paycheck from my second job, which is theoretically supposed to come every second week, but is more often "whenever Boss remembers that we're not volunteers." Another is a pair of earrings I probably shouldn't have bought, except they ( Read more... )

Having some jewelry issues today. My ears are sore from the posts with screw-on backs I've been wearing for the last couple of days, so no earrings for me this morning. Other than that, I'm wearing my anniversary pretty (easily my favorite piece) and a bracelet, a sweeping band of silver with a thin gold wire around it. I don't often wear bracelets ( Read more... )

Profound inability to focus on things lately. Perhaps due to the recent stress. Maybe now that it's more dealt with I won't be so out of it. I'd seriously better snap out of it this weekend, as my final paper for my summer class is due this coming week. I don't yet know what to write about, and it has to be long too, between ten and fifteen pages ( Read more... )