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November 30, 2006
Pursuit of Awesome
I have returned to the Twin Cities to well below freezing temperatures and another exam waiting. My orals are tomorrow and then I will finally be done. Until I have to write my dissertation prospectus. Great. Additionally, I am applying for a fellowship and the application is due, of course, tomorrow. I just have to write a personal statement. Whenever I start, it sounds like a cross between the memoirs of some ancient person (I was born at a very young age...) and a personal ad (and... I like surfing the internet and... playing computer games and...). Well, at least its not due until tomorrow.
No excuse for not posting, since I really haven't been doing very much of anything lately. Though J and I decided that we are going to cultivate a certain je ne sais quoi in our lives that is to be entitled "The Pursuit of Awesome." We watched the new Bond flick when I first got there and I was struck by how mundane my life has become. I mean, I don't even really drink anymore. Also, I food shop at Target. Not even SuperTarget. Just plain Target. Can a girl really live on fake chicken nuggets? I think not. Additionally, I have lost the ability to walk anywhere in high heels. I wear flat, sensible (read: old lady) shoes everyday and my Awesome quotient suffers for it. That is not to say that people cannot be Awesome sans heels or that all those who wear heels are Awesome. Certainly not, in fact. However, I do think that I need to be able to wear high heels. And nice clothes. For a change. Thus, I am going to attempt to be slightly more refined than my normal eating-peas-from-a-can-for-dinner-while-wearing-old-sweatshirt self. I even bought a new pair of heels in Boston. They are quite yummy and far far too cold to wear right now. It is hard to be awesome in such a frigid city. I am starting with a nice bottle of red wine... yum.
It would be Awesome to get a new camera, but that shall have to wait for another lifetime. (It's also hard to be awesome when you're pretty poor.) Mine eats batteries and only takes a decent picture when there is much much available light. Alas. Anyhow, here is a shot of my new velvetine minijacket. I <3 greatly! It didn't quite come out like the picture, but that is ok. I like it all the same. It was in "juniors" sizing, which somehow doesn't translate to normal pattern sizes. Gee thanks, Mccalls. I made one size bigger and boy am I glad I did. Phew.
Ok here's the jumper. Maybe it doesn't bring sexy back quite as much as I though/hoped it did, but it's still pretty cute. I am wearing the new heels as well, though they are not so visible. I made a li'l brown beret when I was in Boston and totally forgot to photograph it amidst my camera hate.
Also my legs look super short! Oh wait, they are super short! But maybe not that short. Sheesh.
I realized in Boston that I missed knitting. I like to have something visual to occupy my whilst I knit and thus my opportunities have been limited since J went away. We are on the computer chatting or playing WoW a lot, so that occupies me manually. I started another 3/4 sleeved One Skein Wonder in a juicy orange shade of Malabrigo from Spark and I love love it so far. It was so much softer than Manos! Yum. "Orange Juicy Couture" J has christened it. Who knows when I will finish it now that I have no hands-free time...
Posted by loyd0008 at November 30, 2006 04:47 PM
Comments
Those shoes are super cute.
Posted by: ellie at December 1, 2006 12:03 PM
Thanks! Who knows if I'll ever get to wear them now that it is NEGATIVE DEGREES here.
Posted by: Villain Extraordinaire at December 7, 2006 02:59 PM