to keep myself going at work, it is so tedious here without students! Seriously, I forgot how this part of the year slipped into uneventful paper work!! It's just lucky that I have drafted in some creature ( literally ) comforts, to help my day seem less dreary!
You may not believe it from this picture, but I have the tidiest desk in the office, and I have become so board at times that I had even washed down my monitor!" yes, I really did wash it! then I turned into the tazmanian devil and blitzed the office too! have I mentioned how much I dislike paper work?! Im just thankful that I have commissions and other fun things to keep myself my brain from dying a slow death which is an academic summer!!
Have I mentioned that I have become a little obsessed with knitting (and cleaning the attic. . .. . . .don't ask) over the last few weeks? I have even gone home in my lunch break to finish knitting a cushion cover! Im in the middle of nitting a bolero from this beautiful irridecent blue colour, I have no idea how it will turn out, and its only the 3rd thing I have attempted knitting for about 6 years, so I won't be too surprised if it ends up being something I only wear around the house out of shame!! this book is brilliant, I have bought loads of lovely books lately about knitting and this is the best! Its very simple and it explains everything with pictures and colour, which is my kind of language!!
and because I have started knitting, my already defeated hands have been getting really sore, so I have hand cream in every bag (including the new one I made last night, you can just see the fabric behind the cream!) because I don't want to stop knitting and I don't want to have horrible hands! this one smells lovely, Jenny gave it to me because she knows how much I love the rose anbd carnation hand cream that Nik gave me ( ditsy designs ), so I apply it liberally, and often!
OK . . . . I have done a whole day here (work) I am now going to partake in some knitting, or attic clearing, depending on how I feel when I get home. I hmay even may a new book for my research proposal (tell you later),
toodle pip for now!
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