Charlotte: is this it?

(About the only sort of "parlor trick" I can do is find things on the internet)

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And, regarding the Simon and Garfunkel conversation: I pretty much love a lot of the Simon and Garfunkel stuff (though partly because I played it a lot during my early college days; I've always been at least a decade and a half out of step). But yeah, some of their early work gets a little bit precious. And yet, I have to admit, I'd still rather listen to is than most "modern" pop music. I'll take a pair of singer-songwriters who reference Dickinson and Frank Lloyd Wright over bragging about conquests or brooding about how dark the world is...

I do think that when setting poems to music one has to be VERY careful. The slightest anachronism or mismatch between music style and poem is extremely jarring.

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Last night was the AAUW Christmas party. Lots of talk of Dorothy and her absence; she was such a big part of the Christmas party.

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My exams are all written. I have a tiny bit of grading to do this morning (and will have more after my 9 am class). But other than that, I'm essentially done until exams (which start up Monday). I think I'm going to take the weekend to relax. For one thing, I need to clean house (or at least the kitchen; the new dishwasher is supposed to arrive Monday). And I want to finish the violets quilt; my name is on the list with my mother's quilting group to have it hand-quilted. (I don't have a backing but part of the fun will be going out to one of the shops up there to pick one out). I will say I am really ready to be done with cutting the "houndstooth" bits. I have 16 more squares to do (of something like 288 originally) and cannot be done fast enough, it is very tedious. (I tested to see if I could "stack" the strips and cut more than one at once, but I don't think I safely can.)

I'm also considering cutting some more hexagons for the grandmother's flower garden quilt; I think I will take the pieces for this with me at Christmas and sew on it while on vacation. It's one way of doing some quilt piecing that is portable.

(I'm also thinking this is going to be a toy-heavy Christmas break, in terms of projects. I found a kit for some knitted and felted sea turtles I got years ago and that has been in my stash, and I also want to finally get around to doing that unicorn from the Claire Garland book).