Happy Pi Day!

I am such a geek. I totally squealed out loud when I saw this wee bit o' tasty at Starbucks today:

Even better: one of the baristas totally squealed with me. Our co-workers (I'd walked up to the coffee shop with another teacher) were...nonplussed, to say the least.

(It's Einstein's birthday today too, it's not just a geeky math thing. For the record.)

Oh, the specialness of me...

So it turns out that I am so bad at multitasking that - never mind walking and chewing gum - I can't even stand still and drink coffee at the same time. This morning, I was trying to finish the last of my (now-icy-cold) coffee when I missed my mouth and spilled it all down my chin, neck, and shirt. On the plus side: it's a black shirt, so no harm done. On the minus: I smelled like coffee all day. It was everything I could do to resist sucking on the fabric when I was dozing off on the bus home.

Guess today gets put on the list with the mailbox-meets-nose incident, and the time I was making photocopies & gave myself a paper cut on the edge of my nostril.

Cool!

I came home today to find an unnervingly-official-looking letter in the mailbox, stern bold print on blue paper showing through the window of the envelope. I opened it up right on the step, and found a jury summons inside. How cool is that?!  The wording of it entertains me..."at the hour of 9:15 o'clock in the fore noon" "Given under my hand, the nth day of March..." etc. etc.

Sadly, I have to request an exemption, coz if I were selected, it would be for 3-4 weeks, and we just can't afford for me to miss that much work. If it were a shorter time frame, though, I'd jump at the chance. I mean, who knows if I'd even make it through selection, but even to see that in action would be neat!

A conundrum

Friday night out was a leetle later than I'd planned, so most of yesterday was lost in a haze of sloth and napping. I'd love to say today is much more productive, but we were also out late last night, and what with the time change, well, I think today's a write-off too. I got as far as digging out a muffin recipe and turning on the oven before I realized that, although I wanted to eat muffins, I couldn't really be arsed to make them.

So I turned the oven off, put the cookbook away, and pulled out my knitting. In very short order I was reminded of one of the...shall we say, inconsistencies in my relationship with yarny pursuits. I'm working on a lace project, which is delightful. I love knitting lace: reading the charts, watching the ramen-like stitches pile up on each other, watching the pattern emerge, anticipating the magic of blocking....

What I don't love is the counting. Which is unavoidable in lace knitting. Bah! Maths. Somehow I don't think this was the use my teachers had in mind when they told me I'd need math in real life someday.

It's Thursday, Thursday

A sad coffee morning. I went to a different location of my favourite local cafe this morning, and it just wasn't the same. I missed the Cheers-like vibe, and frankly, the espresso tasted like the grind was off. Still, a crappy cup of their coffee is better than anything that Tim Horton's has to offer. I was accused of being a Coffee Snob by a co-worker, when I said this in my out-loud voice.

My response: "Well, duh! And, so?"

Took a picture of a tree trunk today that looked like an elephant's leg. Too lazy/tired to get it off my camera just now, though. Will post tomorrow if I can, or on the weekend.

Tomorrow may be a hiatus from the 30-Day thing. I have a hella long meeting after work, and I would like to actually go out on a Friday night, instead of going to bed before 9:00. So I'm giving myself permission to skip posting, if need be, with the understanding that I'll have to make it up on the other side. 


Picked up my newest new yarn from the LYS today. I'm tempted to wind it & cast on right away, but it's closer to bed-time than I want to admit. It will have to wait till Saturday, I suppose. A better chance I'll get the heel done on my sock-in-progess then, anyway, which bodes well for actually finishing the sock (& its mate) in a reasonable time frame.

mid-week murmers

A cold, grey day today. Coffee after work with a friend I haven't seen since Christmas, and her wee, just-walking lad danced with me to U2. He got annoyed that I wouldn't play the Gravity Game with him, but I got a cuddle full of baby curls all the same. Came home to a call from the LYS that yarn I ordered is waiting for me;  I wasn't expecting it for a few weeks yet. It's Yarn Week, I guess! Turkey soup & quesadillas for supper. Hooray for Tetris Freezer! It's getting a little sparse in there; time for another cooking jag or two.

(Spell check wants to change "quesadillas" to "quadrilles" and suddenly I'm thinking of Alice in Wonderland and mock turtles...)

Tuesday afternoon

A gorgeous day today. COLD, but bright and clear. A box containing a sweater's worth of yarn waiting at the post office, and on the walk home, signs of spring abound.

(Also, happily, no bruise, bump, or other evidence of yesterday's mishap with the mailbox.)