the middle knitter

I mailed off my last box to Dulaan yesterday! It's pushing the deadline a little close, but I wanted to use the weekend to squeeze out one more hat.

Since school's out here, this box is less of a group effort, but that blue scarf is from a good friend who also happens to be a Sweet Briar alumna. If you include the store-bought sweater that I threw in, this box had 13 items in it, which isn't too bad if you throw burnout, lack of yarn, and repetitive stress injuries into the mix.

Also, I talked yesterday to a woman from Lynchburg who I met last semester. She's been buying warm second hand items and sending them off--she says she just sent off her fifth box! I think that if nothing else she's to be commended for buying up warm clothes when the weather is like this. Between the heat and the humidity, I'm utterly melted.

Aud and I are house sitting this week for these two lovely ladies:

Lilly (look at those soulful eyes!)

and Leia

That's how Leia actually looks. This is how my allergies see her, though:

Without going into too much detail, let's just say that attempts to stay in the house with the animals did not go so well, and we've returned to our dorm room, where I drug myself up on Claritin and Benadryl. We're going to go there tonight to watch a movie and keep the animals company . . . I really hope I'll be able to survive it. They're great animals, though. I really miss having a dog around.

Now that I've shipped that box to Dulaan, I'm on a knitting hiatus to give my hands time to recover and my brain time to focus on Dionysus and Greek tragedy (FTW!). There may or may not be posting while I'm on knitting break. It depends on whether I get around to washing all of the yarn I've got sitting around waiting to be recycled.

(Also, I'm using this post to participate in Electric Venom's Bi-Weekly Bite Me, because, hey, a young blog needs readers! And EV would be worth the link anyway--very cool blog.)