The Socks are in the Mail!

And my socks are at my house!

They're from Pam, at Blue Moon Knitting, knit in KnitPicks Andean Silk, a blend of 55% Super Fine Alpaca, 23% Silk, 22% Merino Wool. Yum! Let me tell you, they feel wonderful! They're so soft... might be too nice to get felted in my clogs. They might be feel-lucious-while-I-lounge-around-the-house socks. Thanks, Pam!!

But Pam didn't stop there. Oh no. She also sent a package of cute knitting notecards, a Mary Englebreit tote, and a little bottle of lavendar Eucalan to spoil these yummy socks. Wow! Thank you so much! :)

My sock pal socks are in the mail today. Somehow it seemed complicated to find a couple postcards of where I live and get socks, cards, and an envelope all in the same place at the same time. But I managed, and now they're on their way.

Speaking of having everything in the same place at the same time, the bunny sweater has seen no progress because I keep forgetting to take the pattern with me when I take the yarn. Sometimes I'm not so bright.

But maybe that's because I spent all of last week learning the second semester of general chemistry so that I could take its final exam in one hour (students in the course would have 2.5 hours) for a cumulative exam for the chem program. We'll see whether I learned enough to pass. It was certainly an interesting challenge!

It meant that I did nothing else last week, and I even forgot about the first week of spinning class! The instructor called me and asked if I could still come, and I had to say no. If I pass the cume, it was the right decision. If I don't... maybe I shoulda gone to learn drop spindle. I'll go a little early this week and get caught up.

But now, back to work and back to classes -- Linear Algebra, and Clouds and Aerosols. The latter isn't taught well (grr), so knitting there is helping me maintain my sanity. I've just about finished the foot of a sock this week, but I seem to have made the leg too long and will have to rip back and take out a little of the leg so that I'll have enough yarn. It seems like kind of a shame, but since it's just occupying my hands during class so that I don't jump up and strangle the professor... it seems like a good deal.

(My mom and I like the show The Amazing Race. If you don't know it, a pair of people (or in the current version, a family of four) is is in a race against other teams in which they travel around the world and have to complete a host of tasks to make it to the next day. Each day there's a task that only one of them can do. The other one can cheer them on, but not assist. Can you imagine just having to sit there, worrying? What would we do? We'd bring something to knit. Who cares what it is -- just something to keep your hands busy. This could be our schtick on the show -- the thing that makes us quirky. And because you don't have a lot of luggage to be dragging around, we couldn't bring a real project. I think it would be a sock, and just one, that we would rip out when we'd finish, just so that there would always be something to knit. At the end of each section, the last team to arrive is sent home, unless it's one of three non-elimination rounds. But this year, the penalty for being the last team was that you had to give up all of your belongings excpet for your passport and what you're wearing. And here's the technical question (not that we'd ever be the last team!) -- if you're the non-elimated last team and the sock-in-progress is in your pocket, do you get to keep it?)