Sunday, November 16, 2008

I only blog when I have homework.

So it seems I only blog when I have homework and don't want to do it. Oh well, here goes.

I recently started looking at base yarn to order for dyeing over winter break. Just a couple months ago, I figured I'd be spending winter break putting together a yarn club for the new year. I then, of course, realized that I couldn't do a yarn club this year because any club requiring me to send out a monthly package wouldn't fit in with my school schedule, and any club requiring me to send out a package every other month would mean that I'd have to be dyeing and sending out yarn as I prepare to leave.

That's when it hit me. In less than a year, I'm leaving. It's one thing when you're a freshman or sophomore and the people you occasionally hung out with leave, and it's another thing entirely when you're a junior and some of your oldest and closest friends leave (My boyfriend leaving at the beginning of this year wasn't as big a deal as I thought it would be, since he's only a half hour away, but still...), but being a senior and realizing that you're going to be leaving your home, your family, the ability to drive for five minutes to see your best friends, and the easy 30-minute wait to see your boyfriend...

What if I get to school and can't find other knitters? What if my roommate or suitemates don't understand the big piles of stash or envelopes? What if somebody sees my dyepots and decides to make pasta and then everybody gets sick and there's a lawsuit and GAHHHHH!

Anyway! What was it like when you left home? Share your stories, advice, stash space-reducing (not stash-reducing!) secrets?

Sunday, November 2, 2008

While I was gone...

The last month and a half have been busy. During that time, I did a ton of schoolwork, produced ridiculous amounts of art, applied to college, not slept enough, and definitely not done enough knitting or dyeing. Actually, I haven't done any dyeing in a really long time. In conclusion, I'm just really tired, but I wanted to let you know I'm still out here and see how the rest of you are doing.

So...let me know!