sense of accomplishment


today was balanced, productive, and well-spent. Holy crap.

I don't know how I pulled this off, but today I accomplished stuff. Without idling and/or feeling guilty towards the 8 million things I'm not doing whenever I actually do something -- today I just did things, one by one, and at the end of the day, I had a whole list of useful things that I did:

1. I knitted a good 4 inches on my Kureyon poncho. I'm still not loving the straight needles (they're from WalMart...and they blow), but I seem to have found a rhythm, and I love the yarn.

2. I spent like 2 hours writing the appendix to my resonant interaction paper. Man, all that math...makes me feel like a badass.

3. I went to school and emailed back a bunch of peeps, expanded my knit knowledge by cruising some blogs, and finished and imported some plots into my paper, which is due on Thursday, and is finally taking shape.

4. I accomplished half of a session of my online Bible study on the Gospel of John. The connection pooped out halfway through, which was irksome, but at least I did that much.

5. I finally registered for the Pittsburgh Lindy Exchange in November. Very excited to go now.

6. Upon coming home, I forced myself to re-attack this derivation that I've been having trouble with, and I actually figured it out. Whoo! Can't believe it. It still doesn't match another paper to which I'm comparing my work, but you can't win 'em all.

7. I read 4 chapters in the novel that I am currently reading, Enduring Love by Ian McEwan.

8. Then I watched CSI and knitted a whole lot more of mitten:

I feel like knitting shots need good backgrounds. This bumper sticker was given to me by Rebekah, and I love it. I'm still looking for the perfect place to stick it. I'm so excited about these mittens. I'm less excited about my cowl neck poncho. The cowl part is huge and itchy, and i don't even know if I want a poncho that badly, and I'm wondering if there are better ways to use all that wonderful Lambs Pride Bulky. Or should I just keep the faith and knit onward? I don't know.

I'm glad this day went so well because all these smells like turkey and chimney smoke and cold autumn air are seriously making me homesick, and phoning my parents today just made it worse. I look forward to going back to accomplishing jack shit tomorrow.

Then there are always the smackdowns between my feet and the white tiger:

Posted: Mon - October 11, 2004 at 11:51 PM        

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