Brrrr


I call bullshit on this icy city.

It stopped snowing today, so I decided to trudge to school and make today Summer Travel Planning and Arrangement-Making Day. However, I forgot that they don't heat this place on the weekends. Plus, I forgot to put on long underwear, which I only realized halfway between school and my house. And I only have enough cash left for the subway ride home tonight, so I really hope I get paid soon this week. This cold is such a jip, man -- when I lived in Indiana, I promised myself that I would go to grad school in a warm place, like California. Somehow, I ended up here, in the city of ice and slush, attending a university that doesn't even heat grad student offices on weekends. WTF? Now that I've sat here for 5 minutes and my fingers are already getting too cold to type, I'm quickly sinking into another "Winter will never end" sadness. Argh! While snow is very beautiful, ....this sucks.

I would like to just spend winter inside knitting, with a run on the treadmill every other day, but neither my supervisor nor any of the profs I teach for are having it. The people who make me TA are running my ass all over this campus just so's I can tell apathetic first years the difference between electric field and electric potential. The bossman is urging me to learn to cross country ski, so that i can join the rest of our group up at his forsaken cottage up north somewhere (does it really matter where? It's cold, and you have to ski over a lake to get there, and then huddle around the fire to stay alive...). Yes, I work for a really nice man, but... I thought we had been over the number one rule. Lisa does not camp. That's just how it is, folks, and I don't see why everyone wants to change that. Sleep out in the freezing cold all you want, crazy people, but Lisa will not camp. Ok?

Anyways, this morning I started green socks, and it's weird how happy the green makes me.


The pattern is out of the most recent Interweave Knits, and the yarn is Patons Kroy socks.

Posted: Sun - January 23, 2005 at 01:46 PM        

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