almost

i am so tired i could cry. or just put my head down on this pile of books and sleep. for about a month. the closer i get the more exhausted i get. i think its so exhausting because i am also quite exhilarated - yesterday i finished off all the revisions and even added footnotes as per suggestions from the dd*, and then i sent the whole new draft off to some objective people for them to have a quick look, and got a phone call about 2 hours after that with some great suggestions for tightening up the more personal elements of the intro. the suggestions were quite exciting, its amazing how a couple of comments about how innovative your work is can undo years of damage. so i have a bit of tweaking to do this morning (if you care, i need to write a paragraph or two about how i am writing social ontology back into the categories of history. if your eyes just glazed over thats ok im used to it arent i pumpkin**?). but yes, its exhausting. social ontology is exhausting.

the pumpkin left for work before 6 this morning and i couldnt get back to sleep so i made coffee and wound a skein into a ball for my next project. considering i dont have a ball winder, this is how winding goes at my place:




very hi-tech. it took a while, as this is 150g of 4 ply polwarth/silk. i provide coffee cup for perspective - beginning:


middle:


end:

this ball is NOT for socks. thats right, its time to start something else. knitting lace socks is proving too difficult at the moment, but i am missing having something more complicated OTN, so i am going to make the lacy leaf scarf, like the one bells made (sorry, ravelry link). i have thought long and hard about the right project for this yarn, i wanted it lacy but not something too open as the yarn is dark and has a nice halo about it that would obscure a complicated lace. i think this pattern will be just right.

i am hoping to cast it on today but i also need to cast on the second of my patonyle ankle sock to take away this weekend. we are going to michelago for some sheep-herding practice with the dogs, its my last time going down there as its too expensive and i have achieved what i wanted with miss princess-possum, but it will be fun. possibly cold and wet too. but plenty of knitting time. can i make an ankle sock in a weekend? no lacy scarf knitting tho, that one stays home.

ok, back to the tweaking.

have a great weekend

k xx

*dd: the dynamic duo, my nickname for the official supervisors. holy post-marxism batman.....

**he hates when i call him this but i cant help it, sorry, it just slipped out.