Starting Afresh

It's been a couple of months since I posted. I'd feel guilty, but since I don't really have a regular readership, the only one I'm hurting is me.

So classes are finished. I officially never have to take an undergraduate course again ever! I may teach a couple someday, but that's it. Hopefully I'll get accepted to the Master's program and I can stress again next year.

I did well with stress this term. I decided not to identify myself with one essay or one grade or even one class, and it worked out. I didn't let one essay or presentation or whatever make me feel stupid or even really great. A 'B' on a paper doesn't make me a 'B-student' and an 'A' doesn't make me an 'A-student'. There are more important things with which I wish to define myself.

One such thing is knitting!
I have three projects on the go for this summer, and I hope to add a fourth as soon as I find a good pattern (the colours are supposed to represent the colour of the project, but who knows?):

1. A sweater for Job. He's in on it, no surprises. He picked the pattern and the colour and has seen it grow thus far. I figure the more involved he is in the process, the more likely he is to wear or at least to like the sweater. I don't know if I've mentioned it on the blog yet, but Job (pronounced with a long 'o', like the guy in the bible) is my boyfriend of 4.5ish years. He's a history major. The sweater is the Saddle Seam Pullover from IK Spring '06. I like to put the name of the designer in when I say what I'm making, but I don't have the magazine at hand right now. I'll put it in the next post.
   
2. A scarf for Dr. J. She doesn't read this, or else I wouldn't put it in, because she doesn't know. Dr. J is my former professor, current boss, and honours essay supervisor. Over the past two years she has helped me so much and she has been through a lot too, so I'm making her a funky lacy scarf. I will post the name, designer, and a pic when it's done, I'm just a little paranoid about who could come across this right now.
3. Socks for me mum. She is in on it also, because I wasn't sure she would like them. I don't want to put a summer into lace socks that I think are fabulous but she will look at once and stuff in a drawer. No offense to my Mom, she would appreciate the hard work, but I'd like her to want to wear them, too. She mentioned last Christmas (when I made my Dad some hockey socks) that she'd like socks, too. So I ran a couple of patterns by her and brought a pretty jewelly blue yarn and she says she likes!

That was supposed to be a list, not an essay. Oh well, I guess it's hard to get out of that mindset.

Oh yeah! I finished the IK shrug, the dark red one. I need help to take a picture of it, however, so that will have to wait. I've also made a purse for a charity project for someone I bumped into at my LYS. Darnit I can't think of a picture I can post to break up the text, so I'll stop it there.