Still sick

I managed to get myself to student health today. The nurse took all my vitals. Besides the insanely red throat (like think a_jewfro's face when he's embarrassed :-p ) everything seemed to be okay, though they took a throat culture so we can rule out strep. And now I should be getting better. I've been drinking lots of tea. In fact, maybe I should have a tea party, since I'm in Boston!*

I'm going to go out and buy more honey when I'm done with my pasta. I've been eating a lot, which is probably a good thing in this case since I've been running out of energy. Now I'm kind of awake. I could do the second half of my German homework.

And classes are okay. I wasn't too thrilled with either of today's options, but on Thursday I'm trying out some other ones, in the hopes of finding one good Tuesday Thursday class. I'm all set for Mondays and Wednesdays- there's one other class I want to check out, but the current classes I have are good already, so I'll have good Mondays and Wednesdays.

And I got my swift and ball winder today! My room is officially a yarn store now. Except that you can't buy the yarn. It's mine!


*And by Boston, I mean Cambridge. :-p

What Do You Have To Say? - Arts & Crafts: My Inspiration

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Since I mostly do knitting and crocheting, I usually let the yarn speak to me. Sometimes I'll go into a yarn store and see something shiny and think, "that would be perfect for a scarf!" or "that would be a great hat!" Many times, though, I don't actually ever get around to those projects. Eventually I give up and create some sort of stash-busting project to get rid of everything that I'd never otherwise use (such as all of my un-shiny acrylic yarn.) Occasionally, I'll find a pattern on a cool site like Knitty and decide that I really want to make it.

Of course, the less fun way is to go outside and realize, "crap, it's really cold out! I need a hat/scarf/pair of gloves/sweater!" Then I go through my stash, and then go through my stash and then go online to find a suitable pattern for it. And then I knit it!

Though I should probably be truthful now and say that I have knitting ADD and start tons of projects and don't necessarily finish all/any of those projects.

For the XKCD fans in the Boston area

Remember this comic?

Well, as you can tell, the date is approaching (this Sunday!) and the location is actually in North Cambridge:

Yay for Google maps!
(The coordinates themselves seem to be in someone's back yard, but there's a park slightly north of that. I think that's where they mean.) I entered it wrong. It is the park.

So when we asked about it when Randall spoke at WPI, he said "you don't have to go there, the comic already tells you what happens. It shows you the future. Nothing happens." Or something like that. But regardless, tons of local xkcd fans are probably going. Including dr_whom and me, since he's visiting his folks for Yom Kippur. Actually, I'm really glad he reminded me of it because I would have forgotten that it's this upcoming Sunday!

Are any of you WPI people planning on coming?

So my hope is that perhaps there's a nice, male, single, Jewish xkcd fan who is around my age who will be there, and then we can meet and fall in love and live happily ever after. (And hopefully he'll know my name before the wedding!) This could be like xkcd match-making or something! How else can nerds meet each other and procreate and make baby nerds?

And hopefully it won't rain.

*Edit* Apparently the original coordinates were in upstate New York. And then he changed them to be in Cambridge. So the fact that he made that effort seems to indicate that something is up. :)

I'm proud of myself

Isn't it pretty?

(From gaming weekend. I didn't upload these until now. Bad me.)