Stuff Happens
Every 6-8 months or so I seem to hit a major milestone in my work. Not so infrequently I pack it in altogether, but infrequently enough I often despair of ever completing Project Whatever. Today I completed some analysis that I've been working on about 50-60 hours a week since October. It was supposed to have taken me a month. I did a victory lap around the lab. Everyone already knows I'm a tiny little freak (N's phrase) so I just go ahead and do what I feel like anyway, and I felt like yelling w00t! and running around for a minute. Soon I will have a new lab. I will have to ease them in gently.
We have a lot more data than we'd estimated we'd get. I either have the Paper to End all Papers, or the Biggest Negative Result of All Time. We'll know in about a week, after I've done some more work on the results. Either way it will be publishable, but you can guess which I'd prefer it to be.
I packed up all my yarn and yarn-related supplies about 3 weeks ago, except for what I would want until the move. I will not own up to how many boxes my stash went into, but in my defense I also packed a couple large vases in there too. It's not stash, it's packing material! And of course, books are heavy so those boxes are small. I carefully lined the cardboard box bottoms with a garbage bag in case of damp pavement and rain. Just in case. I have lots of deep red yarn so there is plenty of room for disaster.
I kept one of my 66 quart plastic tubs out and put all my yarn-for-lab-presents in it. I did not leave myself out any yarn to knit for myself, so I am working along very well on lab presents, though the temptation to open a box and find my Blue Sky Alpaca worsted cotton in Honeydew is pretty enormous.
Okay, that was barely dishonest.
I did make Le Slouch from knitandtonic, but only because I had in the leftover stash exactly the yarn called for in a raspberry red color. And I saw the pattern just as I was sorting the odd-ball stash bin for packing. If you can avoid knitting a raspberry beret more power to you. I have not the will. Of course it has been unwholesomely warm, and I have not had the chance to wear it.
I have finished 2 pairs of socks (one Cherry Tree Hill and one LB Magic Stripes), a hat, and have another hat and 2 scarves on the needles. I'm doing the Backyard Leaves scarf from Scarf Style in RYC Cashsoft Aran, a broken rib scarf in doubled Encore worsted, and the Knitty winter cover hat in the DB Merino Chunky that I bought in 5 colors to mix and match for the many hats I'm making. I think pictures will have to wait until we are arrived in the new place. It looks like we will have 150-250 more square feet, so there will be plenty of room for blocking. I do so much sweater knitting (and frogging) I forgot how fast accessories can be made.
N gave me season one of the X files for Christmas so I am seeing a few episodes I haven't seen before while I work at night.
We have a lot more data than we'd estimated we'd get. I either have the Paper to End all Papers, or the Biggest Negative Result of All Time. We'll know in about a week, after I've done some more work on the results. Either way it will be publishable, but you can guess which I'd prefer it to be.
I packed up all my yarn and yarn-related supplies about 3 weeks ago, except for what I would want until the move. I will not own up to how many boxes my stash went into, but in my defense I also packed a couple large vases in there too. It's not stash, it's packing material! And of course, books are heavy so those boxes are small. I carefully lined the cardboard box bottoms with a garbage bag in case of damp pavement and rain. Just in case. I have lots of deep red yarn so there is plenty of room for disaster.
I kept one of my 66 quart plastic tubs out and put all my yarn-for-lab-presents in it. I did not leave myself out any yarn to knit for myself, so I am working along very well on lab presents, though the temptation to open a box and find my Blue Sky Alpaca worsted cotton in Honeydew is pretty enormous.
Okay, that was barely dishonest.
I did make Le Slouch from knitandtonic, but only because I had in the leftover stash exactly the yarn called for in a raspberry red color. And I saw the pattern just as I was sorting the odd-ball stash bin for packing. If you can avoid knitting a raspberry beret more power to you. I have not the will. Of course it has been unwholesomely warm, and I have not had the chance to wear it.
I have finished 2 pairs of socks (one Cherry Tree Hill and one LB Magic Stripes), a hat, and have another hat and 2 scarves on the needles. I'm doing the Backyard Leaves scarf from Scarf Style in RYC Cashsoft Aran, a broken rib scarf in doubled Encore worsted, and the Knitty winter cover hat in the DB Merino Chunky that I bought in 5 colors to mix and match for the many hats I'm making. I think pictures will have to wait until we are arrived in the new place. It looks like we will have 150-250 more square feet, so there will be plenty of room for blocking. I do so much sweater knitting (and frogging) I forgot how fast accessories can be made.
N gave me season one of the X files for Christmas so I am seeing a few episodes I haven't seen before while I work at night.
posted by Jane at 1:16 AM
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