Hello blog, and happy Monday! Today has been a very long and very cold day, but it’s been a pretty okay one. This past week has really been very long and very cold, but there have been many highlights, some of which I’m here to tell you all about.
First of all, I’m making great progress on my knitting projects. On Friday I cast off my little sister’s birthday sweater and the body of my little brother’s sweater, which I’ve been knitting for over a month at this point and struggling just a bit with. I’m working on the sleeves right now, and while I usually knit with circular needles- two smaller needles connected by a cord-, I’ve decided to knit those with straight stick needles, which are a lot different. They’re heavier and the weight rests in different places, and I also have to learn to hold my yarn with a different hand so I don’t have to set down my project on every single stitch. It’s a little stressful, but I started practicing this afternoon and I think my norwegian purl and continental knit are improving.
I’ve also gotten very into listening to audiobooks while I knit; last week I listened to Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, and I’ve just started The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which is the first book in the long series with Hercule Poirot, the detective from Death on the Nile. I like them because it’s a break from all of the other things I have to do, but I still get to try and figure out the clues and who I think the murderer is. In Death on the Nile, I was so confident that I had the culprit pinned, and then it ended up having such an insane twist that I couldn’t even be mad at how wrong I was because the ending was so awesome. I highly recommend it; I stayed up until one A.M. on a school night to finish it, and it was more than worth the lack of sleep.
This weekend was the Guild’s Cari-Radio concert, our first open tower of the semester, and I found out afterwards that we were actually filmed by the local news! Margaret- our instructor- had been telling us all week that some guy was coming in to videotape the concert, but we didn’t know what for until we were climbing down the stairs to leave the belltower. If I’m going to make the news for anything, I’m pretty okay with it being my stirring rendition of Kermit the Frog’s “It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green”.
In broader Wellesley news, College Government elections for next year are starting to kick off, and tomorrow the candidates are all coming to our dorm House Council meetings to give us their elevator pitches. This year I have more of a reason to be invested than I did last year; my friend Kiley is running for College Government President! She has a bunch of great ideas and even more importantly, she has a lot of great plans for how to implement them. I think she’s the perfect person for the job, and I can’t wait to cast my vote!
All of my plants in my horticulture class are really sprouting; I’ll snap a good picture of my corn plant when I’m in the greenhouse this Wednesday to show you all next Monday! I’ve also been planting a lot of flowers, and I can’t wait for them to start blooming. I think this horticulture class might be turning me into a gardening person, and I have no complaints.
Right now it’s snowy and cold in New England, but I’ve heard that tomorrow it’s supposed to rain, which will hopefully wash a lot of that away. Tomorrow is the first day of March, and I for one am more than ready for spring!
Sending you joy,
Andrew
P.S. Bates Hall got a Cricut! The cover image is my friend Abby, our first floor RA, with our very first cut out: mountains!