I finished the pink and grey monkeys shortly after I finished the last post. My sock blockers have been getting a lot of work lately, a lot more than they are used to at least! There wasn’t a huge amount of yarn left over, but it only take about 5 or 6 grams to make …
Random has been sort of my catchword of late. It feels as though my life has become a host of things unrelated to one another except through me. I could make a concept map to explain this, but I’ll save y’all the horror:-) I’ve not posted here in a while. Partially this is because, quite …
You know you had a good time on your birthday when you don’t get to blog about it until a week later! My day started normally enough until I got to the office where a very interesting box awaited me on my desk. Given it’s dimensions, I was a tad apprehensive that my day was …
So, I was asked to share what I got at Sticks and Sting this year. I assure you it is modest in the most! The yellow yarn on the left is a custom dyed skein of Superwash Merino 3 ply yarn that came with my goodie bag (but that I forgot to photograph!) by Dreams …
I’ve been reading the ladies over at the Mason-Dixon and their lightning blog posts for the past few weeks and I’m thinking that this might be what is needed to get me back into writing here. So, thanks Kay and Ann! (or not possibly:-)) My life here in Ames got busy in a hurry thus …
Here at Iowa State, much like at other US universities, graduate students often get an office in which to work. The higher of a rank of grad student that you are the more elaborate the office usually. In my case, I actually share an office with four other people. Two of whom I’ve yet to …
This is what my world looks like right now.
One of the things that is most fun about being in school again is the little surprises that you encounter on a daily basis. Directly outside the building my office is in is what they call “central campus”. It’s an enormous green patch with the campanile and a few trees, but mostly grass. It was …
The past 2 weeks have been hectic here as I get back into the rhythm of classes on campus. I was also given a “surprise” assistant ship which means that I hadn’t been expecting it at all and threw a massive wrench into the workings of my first week back in school. However, I am …
One of the things that I seem to remember about college the first time around was all the moves that I made. In about a year and a half, I moved 5 times. Which isn’t even a lot for some students. I remember one girl telling me that she moved 5 times her first year …
Sarah Jane Humke 