daddy-o

happy birthday pops!

how to have a heart attack in 9 easy steps

1. apply for more loans so you can live in a room in nyc and eat food occasionally
2. be approved for loans
3. accept internship
4. buy plane ticket
5. get a phone call from financial aid saying no loans are approved because you're not taking summer classes
6. call financial aid advisor and do that despicable thing: cry
7. call loan originator and do that despicable thing again
8. get a call from financial aid saying since you're doing an internship they'll circumvent the rules
9. cry again

well, that happened...

so, last week didn't start off very well.

it was hot, i was hormonal and cranky, and i alluded to badness afoot. the badness? i was losing my job. leaving me, well, much like erik, about to embrace my unemployed mediocrity.

then, the next day, i got an email from a japanese gentleman named tom, offering me an internship in july. july started the day after this email. but the timing seemed a little too fortuitous for brushing off. it would be a 2 month, unpaid internship in nyc. where i hear they give away free housing if you don't mind sleeping under the 59th street bridge.

who was it with? a large, international organization. here's a hint. how well do you know your logos?

did you name it? if not, go to their homepage. or to the department i'll be working in.

anyhow, most of my ducks are in a row, and i'm off to new york next week until school starts.

anyone want to housesit for me so erniekins doesn't get lonely? he's my last duck. he's also my first dog. anyhow, no kids, cats, or other dogs allowed.

and i must end with: WOOHOO!!!

summer knitty!

it's out!!

it's got some really good stuff - and it's all stuff designed for guys! hurrah, because i'm having difficulty deciding what to knit for my he-friends!

so, go here to learn to embrace man-knitterdom.

go here to see that even marines can knit.

go here to get a handknit superhero costume.

then look at the patterns. of particular note, see:

• cargo pants for t-daddy
• brilliant smoking gloves
• the very funny drunken argyle
• the insanely cool hardcore designed by a (had i been in high school, i'd have dated him) male teenaged knitter
• blue hills keeps growing on me

so go check out knitty, pick up the needles, and knit something for a cool guy that deserves a handknit!

the migraine from thursday and friday is creeping back in.

i finished the boobholder minisweater on saturday. however, i'm making a new one out of new yarn (insanely soft and cheap pure acrylic.*) and a new bit of knowledge. knowledge: when doing raglan increases, find out where the sleeves are before doing increases in the sleeves or you will have poofy sections in the bust area which is truly unnecessary. more knowledge: cottontots is really pilly and sheds really badly.

i was flipping through the channels this morning, and landed on into the west. suddenly, 30 minutes disappeared... i can't tell if i think it's really good or if i am just sucked i because i've got sort of low energy.

we (yaymee, jenny, kate, keesha, and i) went to forest room 5 last night and visited for a while - it was fun! good night all around.

okay, i have 2 major hurdles that have to be jumped today. so i'll go limber up.

happy 4th!

*"you look at that sweater, carefully and realize that love has made you temporarily blind. You’ve got a secret now, honey, and though you would never sink as low as him you could blab it all over the school if you wanted the label in that sweater said 100% acrylic."

i left my heart in san fran-cheesy

i love grosse pointe blank.

you're a handsome devil, what's your name?

message for etr

check your mailbox next week.

i sent it. finally.

:)

friday report

i cast on yesterday for the minisweater, and it's about 1/2 done today in white cottontots. going to do i-cord long wraparound ties instead of a button and ignore the decreases to make it far less poofy in the sleeves.

gots me a migraine

want to browse 2ndhand stores for sweaters to recycle.

but really want to buy paton's classic wool merino for mariah. i can't decide on a color though - camel, russett, deep olive, chestnut brown, leaf green, or aran. please vote... really unable to decide.

cut the dogs nails today - no one left bleeding - yay!

want to buy bookshelves and wireless router so i can finally put together my apartment after 13 months of having an unfinished "library." don't have the capital. :-(

annika's surgery went really well and she's improving WAY faster than anyone thought she would - thanks for the prayers and happy thoughts!

unable to make full sentences today - boo.