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Aug. 18th, 2006 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charloweenI know I'll keep saying this, but SOON I'm sure my life will settle down, and I'll have more time to keep in touch with people, read my flist and generally be a good little citizen of the intarwebs. Maybe I'll even finish-and-post one of those crossovers I started in February. And if pigs could fly, I wouldn't need a bus pass because I could ride a pig to school!
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aoshi and I made an attempt at finding the novels for our English classes, and we failed a little. It was quite humid out, and we weren't entirely successful. I ended up buying a Lois McMaster Bujold novel and a book of knitting stitch patterns. This means it's not patterns for sweaters and scarves, but instead it's page after page of interesting ways to make cables, and lacy edging and how to knit plaid. There's easily 500 different stitches in here.
I was trying one last night, and had to look up what "yarn over" meant - and I found yarnover.net, an entire site devoted to knit lace patterns. It didn't tell me what a "yarn over" was, but it was interesting. As for textbooks, I was all ready to buy my texts for the other classes, when I realized that the Toronto Public Library is one of the biggest in the world, and probably would have copies of the books for me to look at before I bought them all. (The York bookstore has no Film books or any Science and Technology Studies books, just empty shelves and sad faces.) I found all but one of my books, placed them on hold, and I should be getting them in a few days. So I do win after all!
Now is a good time to mention thataoshi has become a twentysomething! Happy birthday, aoshi!
The big win of the week happened this way: my mother was sad because Grey's Anatomy was moved to Thursday nights, right when she's teaching a class. I say, Why don't you use bittorrent to download the episodes? She says, That's interesting - I missed most of the last season of Corner Gas, too. I say, Well then, let's get your laptop over here and get you started! Ten minutes later she found some Joni Mitchell albums she wanted to hear and was downloading those, too. She gave me life, I get her stuck on bittorrent. Fair trade? I think so! Now that I know she watches Grey's Anatomy, I wonder if I can suck her into SPN with the Denny-as-demon-hunter angle?
Several of the little things that had to be taken care of are now resolved: my grade in the summer class was officially changed to an A, I can pay for school this year, I'll start the school year with no balance on my credit card, and I bought pop tarts (I need them or I will explode)! Now it's just the big things: can I find a roommate, where do I live next month/next year if I can't find one, and am I going to find a job for the school year? I don't particularly want to move back to Brooklin, mostly because Dad and I would drive each other insane. He's 74 now, more deaf than my grandmother and completely in denial that he's turned into a crotchety old man.
thucyken is packing up her life in preparation to move to Australia, and it's going to be strange with her gone. This year went by far too quickly. There's no way it's the middle of August. And if I don't leave now I'll be really late to meet Phil.
Wednesday
aoshi and I made an attempt at finding the novels for our English classes, and we failed a little. It was quite humid out, and we weren't entirely successful. I ended up buying a Lois McMaster Bujold novel and a book of knitting stitch patterns. This means it's not patterns for sweaters and scarves, but instead it's page after page of interesting ways to make cables, and lacy edging and how to knit plaid. There's easily 500 different stitches in here.I was trying one last night, and had to look up what "yarn over" meant - and I found yarnover.net, an entire site devoted to knit lace patterns. It didn't tell me what a "yarn over" was, but it was interesting. As for textbooks, I was all ready to buy my texts for the other classes, when I realized that the Toronto Public Library is one of the biggest in the world, and probably would have copies of the books for me to look at before I bought them all. (The York bookstore has no Film books or any Science and Technology Studies books, just empty shelves and sad faces.) I found all but one of my books, placed them on hold, and I should be getting them in a few days. So I do win after all!
Now is a good time to mention that
aoshi has become a twentysomething! Happy birthday, aoshi! The big win of the week happened this way: my mother was sad because Grey's Anatomy was moved to Thursday nights, right when she's teaching a class. I say, Why don't you use bittorrent to download the episodes? She says, That's interesting - I missed most of the last season of Corner Gas, too. I say, Well then, let's get your laptop over here and get you started! Ten minutes later she found some Joni Mitchell albums she wanted to hear and was downloading those, too. She gave me life, I get her stuck on bittorrent. Fair trade? I think so! Now that I know she watches Grey's Anatomy, I wonder if I can suck her into SPN with the Denny-as-demon-hunter angle?
Several of the little things that had to be taken care of are now resolved: my grade in the summer class was officially changed to an A, I can pay for school this year, I'll start the school year with no balance on my credit card, and I bought pop tarts (I need them or I will explode)! Now it's just the big things: can I find a roommate, where do I live next month/next year if I can't find one, and am I going to find a job for the school year? I don't particularly want to move back to Brooklin, mostly because Dad and I would drive each other insane. He's 74 now, more deaf than my grandmother and completely in denial that he's turned into a crotchety old man.
thucyken is packing up her life in preparation to move to Australia, and it's going to be strange with her gone. This year went by far too quickly. There's no way it's the middle of August. And if I don't leave now I'll be really late to meet Phil.
