So I'm finished my BA now, and I don't start my MA until September, so I'm sort of in between purposes in life. I'm working over the summer as a research assistant, a job I love because my boss is like a more grown-up version of me. It's creepy, actually.
Still working on sweater/scarf/socks from last post. Sadly, knitting has taken a back seat because of exams etc. However, as soon as I finish this post I am off to watch TV and work on those socks, which have to be ready for June 4th, so they have been bumped to the top of the list. I've been avoiding the scarf because lace is new to me and there is a k7tog in there that freaks the hell out of me.
Job and I are off to Pender Island for the long weekend (Victoria Day is on Monday), so that will be nice. Job is working and taking classes this summer, so he has very little chance to relax. He always spends the first day of any time off saying "I can't believe I don't have to work... I can't believe I don't have to do homework!" So it takes at least two days for him to experience any kind of relaxation. He's a trooper.
Right now I'm reading Anna Karenina, but I'm thinking of reading other things at the same time, since AK has long chunks about farm technology that just don't interest me. My footnotes say that these chunks exist because Tolstoy had all of these revolutionary peasant relations ideas, but I just can't get into it. I am fascinated by the discussion of divorce laws, though, and the comparison of society's perceptions about adulterous husbands (Oblonsky) versus adulterous wives (Anna Karenina), including the idea that Karenin views his son as tainted because of his mother's adultery. He sees no problem in hating his son because of Anna's actions.
I do want to start reading Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters, though. It looks awesome. Fun with words/letters like the Thursday Next books are fun with the literary world.
Anyway, off to watch the season finale of Conviction (like Grey's Anatomy with lawyers! I love it!) and knit those socks! Wish me luck.
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musings of a knitting grad student on Vancouver Island
- mellybell
- I'm an knitting, writing, reading, crosswording English major. I live with my history major fiance. I like to knit, he likes tanks, and we both like videogames.
Quote
"I would like to be the air/
that inhabits you for a moment/
only. I would like to be that unnoticed/
& that necessary."
-- Margaret Atwood, "Variation on the word Sleep"
What I'm Reading for School
- Radcliffe, Mysteries of Udolpho
- Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray
- Thomson, "Winter" from The Seasons
- various Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- articles on Humanities Computing
- articles on Bibliography and Study Methods
What I'm Knitting
- Saddle Seam Pullover
- Celtic Cable pencil case
- Cabled Hearts Scarf
- Pomatomus
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