The Evilness of Facebook

Once again, the blogging has gotten away from me and the only excuse I can think of it that I have become swallowed alive by Facebook. I will blog again, or at least post parts of papers, something...

Extreme Busyness Part 2

Who knew that taking on a part time job would eat into so many facets of my life! Blogging has suffered, crafting has suffered, even crazy thinking has suffered! Ok, maybe crazy thinking hasn't suffered...

At any rate, spring is here, we have moved to a nice little cabin in the woods, yet still in the middle of town, it's quite grand actually. We have a resident moose which is nice at times, but frustrating at others, we had contemplated putting in a garden, but now that idea is out! There is still too much snow on the ground to be seriously thinking about gardening anyhow.

Work goes well, and between 20 hours a week at that and 3 grad classes I am fairly busy. Summer will be a bit of a break as I am only taking 6 credits, and have no actual in person classes.

Branden and I headed out to Kaltag, a rural village 90 miles inland from Unalakleet, to watch the Iditarod pass thorugh. I may post a longer description of that, or I may just opt to keep it in my head. We'll see.

As I said, spring is here, daylight is back with a mad fury, and now we wait for the snow to melt, and the cabin fever to lift. Hopefully by May.

My new job

I am now working as a research assistant for the Alaska Native Teacher Preparation Project, yeah! This will definatly eat into the crafting time, but i'm sure I can squeak some in here and there. It's so good to be actually working at the University, even if it is just a student position.

I hate Christmas, but the break is nice!

Well, I turned in my last paper yesterday. I couldn't figure out why I was having such a hard time writing it, and then I figured out that I had already written a whopping 10 papers already this semester! This is a picture of B holding our intuitive drawings done by a local lady. His is the one with the two mountains, and mine is the one with the water. I was so happy with the whole process, I think i'll go in for another one next month.
Heading down to WA in less than a week, don't know how excited I am... But atleast there's snow down there and it's cold, so we won't be too warm.

A case of Extreme Busyness

OK, so not pictures because it is dark almost all of the time now, and things just don't photograph that well in low light! Just kidding, I have been exactly swamped with housework, homework, and all things knitterly. So.. for the whole 1 of you following my blog, you'll just have to hold your horses until Christmas break for a bunch of new info!

chevron love?

More like sore hands! I made this cap yesterday, and really like the way it snuggles my head, and it sits pretty low on the neck and ears. I used a cheap-o yarn from Michaels just to try out the pattern. It's 80/20 polyester/wool. It actually doesn't feel too bad, and was 6 bucks a skein. Should get two hats from 2 skeins. Anyhow, the pattern is at

More Jewelry

Well, I decided to take the jewelry class again since I have been able to sell some of the things. I think it's also good for me, an exercise in patience and being deliberate. Since i'm not all that enthused by the graduate program so far, it's nice to be able to get excited about something. It's been hard to find someone who really cares about small schools, how magical they could be.