So is everyone having a lovely holiday season?  Good!  I am – Santa was generous, I get a few weeks off* to hang with the family, and get some knitting done!  Woo!  I’ve been better about updating my Rav than my Xanga; in fact, I’ve been on Ravelry a whole, whole lot lately.  Partly because of the free time, partly because of my latest obsession: the Twilight Saga!  Even though I’m about ten years older than the target audience, I saw the movie on a whim with some friends and was instantly hooked!  I got the books asap and locked myself away to enter the sparkleverse.  If you haven’t heard of Twilight, it’s basically a series of four books (there may be a fifth someday) about vampires and werewolves and teen angst.  Here’s one of my fave descriptions:

Love it.  Neither the books nor the movie are great literature/cinema, but they are fun and engaging, and the books are full of suspense, leading to some seriously late nights of “just one more chapter” until I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer.  So anyways, point of the story is that there are a lot of great knitted and crocheted pieces in the movie, and as soon as I can get the yarn, I will be making Bella’s Mittens (Rav Link) and the Rosalie Hale Scarf (Rav Link).  Yay!

Some other stuff I’ve been working on:

One BBR Sock is done!  Hoping to cast on for the second sock within the next few days…I just need to sit down and do it.

The first of the Oak Ribbed Socks is coming along well.  Heel is turned (woo!), working on the gusset decreases.

I made a Bainbridge Scarf in Mmmmalabrigo Silky Merino for the Boston trip.  It is utterly delightful.  So soft, and my very favorite color!

A Sinful Ribbed Scarf in Dez‘s amazing hand-spun, hand-dyed wool.

I’m on the home stretch of my Clapotis, and am really hoping to finish it for New Year’s Eve.  Since it’s purple, I can wear it as I root for my Tigers in the Peach Bowl! =)

On that note, I’m going to call it a night.  Hope y’all have had a great weekend, and Happy Early New Year! =)

*And by “off” I mean I still have to work on research and some homework assignments from my advisor, but all of them can be done in my PJs at home, yay!

Well, I’ve been politely requested to come out of hiding, so here I am!  I got tagged for a fun meme by Karen, but I’m going to change it a bit.  You’re supposed to find the sixth photo in the sixth picture folder on your computer, but I thought I’d give it a knitting spin!  Here’s the sixth photo from the sixth folder in my WIPs picture folder.  Hoo, does that make sense?  My Documents -> My Pictures -> Digital Camera Pics -> WIPs -> Ian’s Scarf (the sixth folder in there, alphabetically, natch) -> This picture!

It’s a WIP shot of a scarf I made for a guy who worked for me a few summers ago.  It’s 2×2 rib, Lamb’s Pride in black and forest green (not necessarily the actual color names, but I don’t have time to go find the ball bands), and it’s actually not even a WIP anymore, haha.  It was finished and mailed months ago!  But it’s still in that folder because the FO pics need to be uploaded to Rav. =)

(Also, I think my MacBook, on which I’m writing this post, just died a little inside when I typed that obviously-Windows file path!  The MacBook is for work and, as a brand-new computer, is way faster than my three-year-old Dell, which is where I keep all my personal stuff.  Someday I’d love to do a Windows v. Mac post, but suffice it to say I really like them both.  There are strengths and weaknesses to each OS, and I’m having fun going back and forth.  I’m also thinking of converting an old laptop to Linux, in which case I would be a super-nerd with three computers and three different operating systems!  Woo!)

And now, back into hiding, for at least another week.  Here’s what’s on the list:

Finish up some data analysis (~2 days)
Write 30ish page paper (~4 days)
Finish final stat mech homework and stat mech take-home final (~5 days)
Do two different astro take-home finals (~3 days)

You’ll notice that 2 + 4 + 5 + 3 = 14 > 8, which is the number of days I have to do all this.  Should be interesting! =)

Oh, and I tag anyone who wants to do this!  It was kind of fun. =)