Assignments

Check out this list!

1. Anthro paper on cloth in Incan and Aztec society
2. Communications Topic Assignment II
3. Communications Topic Assignment III
4. Volcanology Lab 6
5. Volcanology Viscosity Lab (Due April 7) - 90%
6. Volcanology Lab 7
7. Volcanology Term Paper (Due April 7)
8. Prepare Communications presentation (Due April 8 or 9 - not set)
9. Receive corrections and rewrite Topic Assignments II and III (Due April 10)
10. Communications Poster (Due April 10)
11. Correct and rewrite Sapphire term paper
12. Thesis presentations assignment
13. Write abstract for Communications

Ta da! However, this is what I have left to do before I go to work in Northwestern Ontario this summer:

1. Take-home exam in New World Civilizations (April 14)
2. Volcanology exam (April 14)
3. Global Tectonics exam (April 23)
4. THESIS (May 3)

I'm also working 4-5 days a week in the afternoon, so I'm going to be doing pretty much nothing but schoolwork until I go away I think. Wish me luck on exams!

Ridiculously good hot chocolate

A spicy hot chocolate that melds everything I love in a proper hot chocolate

1 heaping teaspoon tbsp cocoa powder
1 heaping teaspoon tbsp brown sugar (preferrably a rich one like demerara)
Good shake each of cinnamon and ginger
Pinch of cayenne
Splash of vanilla
Mug full of milk (preferrably homogenized)

Put the dry ingredients into a mug. Add the vanilla, and use a spoon to mix everything into a delicious smelling syrup. Fill mug with milk, and stir well to mix everything.

You can either pop it into a microwave now to heat it, or pre-emptively heat the milk, and add the heated milk to the syrup. Either way it's delicious!

Finally off the treadmill...

For awhile there I was so behind I felt like I was running on a treadmill - working hard and not getting anywhere. As evidenced by my update list below, however, I think I've managed to run right off the treadmill and keep going!

Assignment Progress:

1. Anthro paper on cloth in Incan and Aztec society
2. Communications Topic Assignment II
3. Communications Topic Assignment III
4. Volcanology Lab 6
5. Volcanology Viscosity Lab (Due April 7) - 90%
6. Volcanology Lab 7
7. Volcanology Term Paper (Due April 7)
8. Prepare Communications presentation (Due April 8 or 9 - not set)
9. Receive corrections and rewrite Topic Assignments II and III (Due April 10)
10. Communications Poster (Due April 10)
11. Correct and rewrite Sapphire term paper
12. Thesis presentations assignment
13. Write abstract for Communications

93 words

Speed test

Assignment Progress:

1. Anthro paper on cloth in Incan and Aztec society
2. Communications Topic Assignment II
3. Communications Topic Assignment III
4. Volcanology Lab 6
5. Volcanology Viscosity Lab (Due April 7) - 90%
6. Volcanology Lab 7 (Due April 7)
7. Volcanology Term Paper (Due April 7)
8. Prepare Communications presentation (Due April 8 or 9 - not set)
9. Receive corrections and rewrite Topic Assignments II and III (Due April 10)
10. Communications Poster (Due April 10)
11. Correct and rewrite Sapphire term paper (Due April 10)

Christmas Presents, Schoolwork

I've already started thinking about Christmas presents again, since it was nice to have everything done in time last year. So far:

-Grandmas - tea cozys
-Grandpa - socks

And that's it ;) I'll think of more in awhile. I've got lots of time after all!

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I need to make another list of school items that need to be done, so that I can check them off and make myself feel less overwhelmed.

1. Anthro paper on cloth in Incan and Aztec society
2. Communications Topic Assignment II
3. Communications Topic Assignment III - 5%
4. Prepare Communications presentation (Due April 3)
5. Volcanology Lab 6 - 80% (Due April 7)
6. Volcanology Viscosity Lab (Due April 7)
7. Volcanology Lab 7 (Due April 7)
8. Volcanology Term Paper (Due April 7)
9. Receive corrections and rewrite Topic Assignments II and III (Due April 10)
10. Communications Poster (Due April 10)
11. Correct and rewrite Sapphire term paper (Due April 10)

I'm not dead yet...

Sorry. Illness has really caught up with me. I'm about 2 weeks behind in schoolwork, basically locked in my apartment due to joint pain, and I can't even knit to keep my sanity (because of the sore fingers/wrists/elbows). Anyway, I'm sure that's not what anyone who still comes here, is here for!

Nothing much is new, although Sean has a great new job opporunity with GW, so hopefully he'll get it (he has a phone interview on the 26th).

I'd also like to thank Kimchi and miked for the well wishes :) Kimchi, they actually did check for celiac, which I don't have thank goodness. But they were so sure they scope me twice! They're 99% sure it's Crohn's at the moment, but I had a capsule endoscopy yesterday so that should be pretty definitive. If it's not Crohn's, it's some sort of rare (so they tell me) motility disorder, and we'll just keep up with painkillers for stomach and joints, and nutritional supplements for weight loss.

Cold

I'm cold. Very cold. Winnipeg has been in a nearly continuous deep-freeze for at least 3 weeks now, with never more than a few days warmer than -20C, and windchills usually in the -30 to -40 range. Last night our power went out for most of the night, and went out a few times again this morning, meaning our heat didn't work and is still not working quite right. It also scrambled our internet again and it needs to be sorted out properly.

I'm going to Edmonton on Saturday for a 4-day visit with Angela, including an evening with Elizabeth. Luckily it's supposed to be no colder than -5 there! That leaves me with the problem of what to wear to the airport...it's going to be -30 here that day, and -5 when I land in Edmonton. Hrm.

Edmonton plans:

-IKEA - I'm bringing an empty suitcase to fill with IKEA stuff. Seriously.
-WEM - there's some new stores (H&M anyone?) that I'd like to check out, as well as some old favourites like Sanrio, the Glow store, etc. I'm really hoping to find a bento box at Sanrio (if not, I'm still buying some Hello Kitty chopstick sets) or at T & M
-Whyte Ave
-Yarn stores (Hello! Of course! Never know what you can get in different cities right?)

-Restaurants: I'd LIKE to go to Yianni's and possibly more places, but my funds are limited

-Not sure what else we're going to do yet, but we're going to have fun! Tea drinking and knitting are of course included....Angela, should I bring any DVD's for evening entertainment? Have you seen "Stardust" yet?
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Silent Poetry Reading

Hamlet on Vaccination

Karlie Shorrock

To vaccinate, or not to vaccinate: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The horror of polio and smallpox,
Or to take shots against a raging virus,
And through immunity eradicate them. To die, to get a shot:
No more: and by a shot to say we end the heartache,
And the thousand natural illnesses
That flesh is heir to, ‘tis an end
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to get a shot;
To get a shot: perchance to feel pain: Ay, there’s the rub;
For in that shot what pain may come,
When we have shuffled to the clinic,
Must give us pause: there’s the fear
That makes disease of so long life:
For who would bear the whips and scorns of malaria,
The itch of chickenpox, the breathlessness of pneumonia,
The fire of meningitis, the agony of tuberculosis,
The suffering of pertussis, and the nausea
That patient merit of the illness takes,
When he himself might his wellness have kept
With a mere shot? Who would sickness bear,
To fever and sweat under an ugly virus,
But that dread of pain after a shot,
The undiscover’d pain from whose clinic
No victim ever returns, puzzles the doctors
And makes us rather bear the pain and disease we have,
Than to get a shot which would prevent them?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of mass vaccination
With this regard their people turn awry
And let loose disease to run rampant.

Where my next sock yarn is coming from...

Oh. My. God. This is the most beautiful yarn ever. And the best part is that the skeins are 150 g. That means that you can make stockinette knee-highs with CONSIDERABLE amounts of yarn left. I want it in the following colourways (sorry, no direct links here):

Rittersporn (Larkspur?)
Veilchen ("Violet")
Poison Nr. 5
Sultan
Am kalten Polar ("Cold North")
Tifer see ("Deep lake")
Pfauenauge (?)
Krauterbeet (?)
Iris Sibirica ("Iris...?")
Farn ("Fern")
Wilder Mohn ("Wild Poppy")

*drools* It's actually a very reasonable price for that much yarn, 14 euros.

2007: Year in Review

-Sean and I lived (mostly) apart due to school/work for almost 8 months and survived
-Sean got to live in residence
-I found out that even when I'm NOT in shape I can hike 12km through solid Canadian boreal forest (aka "bush")
-I lived and worked in Red Lake this summer
-We set a wedding date
-I picked my wedding and bridesmaid dresses
-We moved to a new heritage apartment we love
-Sean wowed the guys from the national headquarters of Games Workshop
-I got mysteriously ill and may or may not be fixed after many tests and surgery
-Despite missing at least 1/3 of my classes, I finished all my work
-I got a scholarship and two bursaries
-I got to use a scanning electron microscope

All in all, a pretty good year. Things have been wonderful for Sean and I, barring only whatever-the-heck this stomach problem is/was. It has put me a bit behind, as I'm trying to study for finals now and I ALSO need to try and complete an extra online class for my residency requirement, giving me 5 classes and my thesis. I'm not sure yet how well that's going to work, and I might have to give up my job. We'll see though, once school starts!

ETA: I'm "Karlie" on ravelry :)

Happy New Year's All! I've recovered nicely from surgery, and am now trying to find motivation to study for finals while still getting in some knitting time before my life goes to hell-in-a-handbasket with next term's work.

New Year's Resolutions:

-Continue to improve money management and tidiness
-Knit a shawl for the wedding
-Stay sane

Posting will continue to stay slow around here, since I post all my knitting projects on Ravelry now, and I have 5 classes and a thesis this semester. Wish me luck!