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A few weeks ago I went to the Finger Lakes Fiber and Yarn Festival and bought some pretty tasty yarn.  334 Yards of Blue and Pink (separate skeins, separate colors) fingering-weight Alpaca.  Yummmmy.  Now, WHAT TO DO WITH IT?!

Here are my thoughts.  I'm gonna be a selfish bitch and use that yarn for myself.  I'm thinking of making a slouchy beret and a cowl.  

I'm thinking dark blue for THIS, and my mid pink for THAT.

I'll try to put pictures of the skeins up...still getting this whole thing figured out.

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I'm still sick, but getting better.  Had a lot of simulation runs to do at work today (yaaay) which is a mixed blessing.  It was great that I get to do stuff I'm trained for (rather than data entry) but it also meant a lot of waiting.  I'll probably be at work rather late tonight (yaaay?).  

What doooo I want?

So, I'm pretty damn sure I don't want to do Operations Research.  It's not that it isn't cool, but I know deep down I will never have a passion for it, and the thought of office life becoming permanent is extremely depressing.  So I've been thinking about what I WOULD like to do.  I've thought of moving to New Zealand for a year, or working in a National Park for a few months, I've thought of just giving into office life for a while until I can do something else...
But every time someone asks me how I got into all this, it was through teaching.  I truly loved it, and didn't suck at it too much.  Now I know teaching has its own set of struggles, and its own "office" dynamic.  But I miss it.  And I was good at it.  I think it made me really happy, to get through to a student and see the lightbulb turn on.  It boosted my ego to know that I was a part of someone's intellectual growth.
Maybe I'll pay my dues and finish out this year so I can say I have a Master's, then go get a credential in the state most likely to hire me.  What state would that be??????  NO CLUE.  Also, some schools avoid hiring people with a graduate education...what to do?  Maybe I can work for a private school, they don't have mandatory pay scales.
I don't know.  I'm tired.  I've been sick.  Life is hard, huh.

I think lately, the wild has been calling to me in particular.  I made the delicious mistake of watching "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" and nearly cried on several occasions.  Damn you, John Muir!  Damn you for saying all that I feel and making me homesick for the wild.  There is nothing on this earth I have met so far that brings me the peace of being on top of a mountain.  And most of those beautiful moments have happened in Yosemite.  How I miss you, Yosemite.  I want to meet with the mountains again, and let them tell me how small I am.  How unimportant, and yet, important.  I believe the Creator made these places so that people like me might stand in awe of His artwork.  Perhaps those places would have gone on if I had never been born, and I know they will go on when I'm gone, but it is nice to think, however arrogant it may be, that that high place was made with a small thought of me.

I am going to climb Half Dome.  Someday.  Someday.

Hello World!

Why am I writing a blog?  Not sure.  Maybe I'm in the mood for attention.  I doubt a blog is the best way to get it.  Oh well, here are my goals for whatever few posts I make:

1.  I will write about a combination of things from knitting to learning to be a grown-up to my experience in grad school.

2.  I will post pictures of my finished projects as a way of patting myself on the back.

3.  I will quote random things that nerds will especially appreciate.

To start on my last goal I will finish my first post with the following: "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"