A week

It's been kind of a busy week. I've been working on registering and testing new students, completely in denial that Christmas vacation is over, but I finally have to admit I'm tired of cookies and the Christmas lights are not as cheery as they seemed at the beginning of December. The tree needs to come down, the frivolous books put away and I need to work on writing my syllabi for another semester. Dreary January is here (though the temp. climbed up to 74F day before yesterday).  I've been having trouble sleeping at night, probably because I got used to staying up playing World of Warcraft till 3 AM all through Christmas break and had my days and nights turned around. But, classes will start in a week and a half, and I have two days with 9 AM classes scheduled, and another day with a 7-10 class. It's been a few years since I taught a night class. I remember how everyone seems to kind of fade out around 8:30. I suspect there will be lots of writing-in-the-lab time on Wednesday evenings. I'm going to try a few new things this semester, too.

I haven't taken any photos this week, but I did upload a photo of the socks I made for my friend Joanne for Christmas. I love the yarn I used for these. It's MadelineTosh Sock in a color called "Waterlily". The picture doesn't really do the yarn justice, nor can you see how soft this yarn is, but she loves the socks and that was my  intention.