Archive for 'Rambles & Real Life' Category
… Wow.
20 July 2008These past two weeks, I’ve worked at being both patient and positive. Although not a negative person by nature, I’m experienced with negative self-talk; I can be a perfectionist, and my self-confidence is about -7 on a scale of 1 to 10. I tried to take a realistic view of the job situation, […]
Several things of note…
16 July 2008… in point form, because today’s to-do list is a mile long.
● I’ve picked up a week’s work at the coffeeshop while I wait to hear from better employment. It’s no different than it was before, but knowing it’s temporary makes it easier to handle.
● Lew was featured on Lime & Violet’s Daily Chum. […]
It’s alive!
1 July 2008I broke the blog last week, while setting up a new MySQL database. I restored the database immediately, but didn’t know that I had to manually recreate its hostname. So. The blog stayed offline until this morning, when I realised (in a moment of panic) that I’d forgotten a step somewhere. […]
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15 June 2008Not hard to tell what I think of the shore.
A little bit of everything.
14 June 2008I have one week left in my work placement, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it thus far. I feel that I’ve caught on quite quickly, too, and I hope that those I’ve worked with feel the same. Also, it took the brain less time than anticipated to readjust to an environment in which French […]
Almost, almost.
23 May 2008The bedroom’s been taken over by an assortment of boxes and bags. The rest of the place looks a little sparse and uncluttered, and the cats are eyeing the pet carriers like they’re jail cells.
I’m just about to shut down and pack up the computer with its various peripherals. Shouldn’t be more than […]
Photos and splurges and moving and knitting and and and…
18 May 2008I promised a modelled photo of my cropped cardigan, didn’t I.
Love it.
Insert dramatic entrance here.
9 May 2008Formal classes are over, and all that remains is a two-week span of practical exams, written exams, and project deadlines. I’ve been working like a mad thing but keeping the stress under control, which is an accomplishment in and of itself as far as I’m concerned.
There are daffodils outside my window.
I’ve started packing up […]
A departure, but temporary.
11 April 2008Public Service Announcement: I have sixteen days left of formal classes.
Sixteen.
After that, it’s two weeks of practical exams and written exams, then I’m off to the north shore for my work placement. The amount of work left to do in those sixteen short days is truly ridiculous, so I’m going incommunicado […]
FO — Half-Pipe Hat
11 April 2008Pattern: Half-Pipe Hat from Son of Stitch ‘n’ Bitch
Yarn: 2 skeins of Mirasol Sulka in 204 (Cocoa)
Needles: 5.0 mm circs
Quick, easy, and cute. I cast on last Saturday at work, and finished this afternoon between customers.
There’s plastic canvas folded into the brim for shape. Note the pink pins–the hat’s still wet. I […]
Birthdays, crocuses, and the inside of my head.
6 April 2008Regardless of the weather, I don’t tend to feel like spring is arriving until I see crocuses. And on Friday, I did–little purple ones in the flowerbeds outside city hall. Once I see the first ones they seem to be everywhere–it’s like every crocus in a city sprouts simultaneously. There are yellow […]
A cloud, a silver lining, and an FO.
27 March 2008I have both good news and bad news. Bad news first: the city hospital neither wants nor needs technicians at this time, and that includes OJT students. I’d hoped to stay here in Moncton, but that’s not going to happen. Instead, I’m heading back to where I came from, to a […]
*SPLAT*
20 March 2008No classes tomorrow, so the week is done–that means two tests, one final exam, and one presentation are all over with. I have three tests next week, and was supposed to have a research paper due as well, but the due date for that has been bumped to the third of April. I […]