I think everyone who got questions has answered them - dragonknitter, Lydia, Diann, and Grace (Grace in the comments).

(Oh, and Grace - I didn't mention it before but I really like your quotations. Especially the Robert Frost one).

Other than that - I'm racing through a last bit of gradings (homeworks from Gen. Bio.). Tomorrow is exam day - I have the keys (they're to be machine-graded) already done, which makes it faster for me.

And Friday - well, I'm taking the entire day off but I am being at home. I can no longer be a cheapskate on dialup, as it turns out - my ISP is migrating everyone to cable internet (which I hope isn't too much of a problem to install; I realized there are no cable outlets in the room where I have my computer. I hope they won't have to go up into the attic and run a drop...). AND I am getting digital cable. (I have been thinking about it for a long time and I can get it without paying the cost of a service call if I have it installed Friday.)

Oh - and I bought a new tv. A Sharp aquos or however they spell it. It was shockingly expensive but it was time for a new television. (The one I was using was over a dozen years old and a few things were going a little wonky on it). This is a much larger television than I had, and its picture is much sharper, and I anticipate the digital cable will look good. (And I get BBC America, and Turner Classic Movies, and the Science Channel....and IFC, which I think still runs Zatoishi the Blind Swordsman (an old Japanese Samurai-themed tv show I kind of got hooked on last summer while visiting my folks). So I'm looking forward to that.

Been working on the various projects. Nothing to show because everything's a long-term project and they all take a while.


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Added, around 4 pm: Well, it's done, except for machine-grading the finals.

Man, am I wiped OUT. This has been about the most tiring summer semester I can remember - I don't quite know why, except maybe that my classes were larger this year.

I think I'm going to bring the Landscape Shawl to knit on tomorrow while I proctor. That was what I worked on last night and it's getting to the big-and-impressive stage, where it's satisfying to work on, because you can kind of imagine what it will be like when it's done. (Oh, and I had to order a longer - a 47" - size 6 needle to contain it. I hate having projects scrunched up on needles that are too short for them.)

I have to admit I'm itching to start something new - I keep thinking about the Spirit of the Southwest shawl that I have yarn for in the stash (pretty, nice, buttery yarn in a particularly lovely color called Moonlight). But I also tell myself no, that I need to finish AT LEAST the Landscape Shawl and the Greek Pullover first (the Greek Pullover for the simple practical reason that the Susan Bates pegboard row-counter that I use for things with complex shaping or patterning is in use for it, and I think I will need it for Spirit of the Southwest.)

I find that I always get the feeling of wanting to start a bunch of new things right as a semester winds down or as a season changes (and somehow, oddly, it FEELS like the season is changing to fall here - I mean, emotionally - it's still hot out and still clearly summer, but there's something that feels fall-ish to me in the air).

I'm also still thinking about the Straits of Georgia quilt, and the nice fall-colored fabric I have to make it out of.

I really want to start something new, but the disciplined side of me is going to make me finish at least some of my ongoing projects first.