Knitting, reading, gaming

Those are the three themes of this weekend. Job's birthday was yesterday, so we bought terribly unhealthy food, rented videogames and movies, and gave each other permission to generally slack off. This will last for this weekend, and then we will feel sick to our stomachs and guilty for a week at least. But it's worth it. Now that we're both in school, we need to unwind periodically. Okay, so we've only been in school for three and a half weeks.

So we have a system: while Job plays, I knit; while I play, he builds his P-38 Lightning model; sometimes we both play, sometimes we eat, very rarely do we get any kind of exercise unless it is in the form of searching the dishwasher for a plate or digging through the piles on the floor for a disc, or in my case, a stitch holder.

I'm knitting three projects at once right now:

1. Ceris Morgan's Short Row Rib scarf from MagKnits (in creamy white "Inca Gold"). Pattern at: http://www.magknits.com/warm05/patterns/rib.htm
2. Shirley Paden's Cabled Shrug from Interweave Knits Fall '05 (my little brother got me a subscription for Christmas! Yay!)
3. Still finishing the Big Sack Sweater from Stitch'n'Bitch. Just have side seams left to sew and then block, but it's daunting because I'm afraid it will look horrible when I finally put it on... my blocking skills are nearly nil (I'm a poet and I don't even know it!)

I'm also reading five theory articles for Tuesday (three Foucaults and two Deleuze & Guattaris... sounds like a chic coffee shop, no? Maybe somewhere Felicity would work?)

I'm also in the middle of watching Broken Flowers, which is lovely but I feel guilty sitting still for two hours when I have all that reading to do. Two Foucaults today and then I'll knit the movie. Feel bad for Job, he has to work until 9:30 tonight. But tomorrow we're going out for dinner and then meeting some friends from school/work at the bar afterwards. The birthday thing.

Will post pics of WIPs soon, although maybe not the sack sweater if it ends up more sack than sweater.

Here's a picture of Daco, Job's family's dog (in Edmonton). He likes to snuggle between people in bed. Such a cutie.