still here! (and by here i mean....there)

yes. so, i reluctantly left krakow, spent one day in glasgow, found first grey hair, am now lying low in canada because the shock of going straight back to glasgow might have killed me.
for the moment i've given up on the complicated shawl because i've come up with a non-complicated project. i'm knitting my friend a sweater and she's fixing my computer. good deal. and we got to go to romni wool and the staff think we're weird now but that's okay. she got really nice merino though it's actually quite heavy. i got fabulous knitting needles made of some weird dairy protein. they feel sort of like my favourite pair of bendy plastic needles but better. and they're pretty. but they do smell weird.
in the meantime, getting back to glasgow early morning on the 5th then scrambling for a place to live.

okay,got to row 7 of charting my lace pattern.then my friend called and invited me for coffee. which turned into a mini-cafe marathon followed by movie and now i won't have time to finish it until saturday.

ravelry! it's eating my brain! and making me late for things!
in the meantime, i was going to knit myself a kitty but those needles are in.....The Suitcase and thus this will have to wait because i like to limit moving the suitcase on account of it being giant and heavy and used as a table and thus covered in things.
so i'm working on inventing a lace pattern which is not something i've ever done. i'm practicing on bigger needles with bigger yarn because what i'm going to use when i've made up the actual pattern is teeeeeeeny tiny.
it hasn't worked so far but i think i've figured it out via an epiphany on a bus.

vacation! yes, i had one!

went to olomouc and brno in the czech republic. brno is where i will likely be living for a semester next year. it only has one hostel that's very grim and only open 2 months a year but otherwise is lovely and full of chinese food and surrounded by forests. it's quite quiet but has excellent travel options so i think it will be nice. it also has a branch of my most very favourite yarn store ever, MarLen so i hiked all the way up to the end of town and bought more cotton!


and today my friend and i went on a daytrip to bielsko-biala which was also very nice.
in the end i got into my new room after i got back from brno. it's basically the same as my old room but in much better condition.
and i grudgingly bought a plane ticket back to glasgow. and mailed my second box of yarn to my parents.hopefully it will get there before i leave toronto.

i ripped out the front of the shirt the other day when i realised i had no idea what i was doing and came up with a new plan doing the front in 2 parts each based on the multidirectional scarf so it will still be triangly and hopefully ribbons will still fit themselves in somehow. the only hard thing was binding off for the arms so far.

today....well, tomorrow's the last day for students to move out of the dorm....what this means on floor 5 is hideous hideous smells as rooms where students have been living are suddenly aired out.
i was hoping to move [very quickly and efficiently] today but the person still hasn't moved out of the room i'm moving into and thus i can't move in because there is no key and a person in my bed. i guess i'll check after my laundry but i think i'll just wait til tomorrow morning now as that way i can maybe work an extra hour. unless there's no work today in which case i'll move today hopefully. man, i have no idea.
meanwhile, my retro task of the day is transferring my casettes to mp3 format for my train trip on sunday.
also meanwhile, my ex-thingy was supposed to have left on tuesday and i was ever so happy on tuesday but the airline screwed up so much that i'm stuck in the same city as her for 2 more weeks! agh! lucky thing i'm going to brno.
and it looks like i might have enough room in my suitcase to knit myself a cat.
and the last complicated scarf reached my friend. and i mailed my first box of yarn to my parents' house the other day. it will be a race to see who/what gets there first.

am working on this sleeveless shirt as per my traditions of post-heartbreak AND exam session knitting [according to the first, it will have stripes and according to the second i must finish it in time to wear it to the oral exam! you know.....for when i run out of things to say].
i've started organising my stuff for various future moves.
the front of the shirt is starting from the corner and worked diagonally. i had no idea how to calculate it but the back was 66 sts. across and 66 rows until binding off for the sleeves and it just turned out that by the time it was time to deal with sleeves on the front it was 66 sts. along the um.....hypoteneuse! thus causing me to be very excited about math.
i have to mail my yarn to my parents as it's vastly exceeded my suitcase.

didn't knit for the whole week after she left. quite odd. then had a rampant burst and hurt my wrist finishing complicated scarf part 3.
it's pallette from knitty but with dinky needles, the yarn is Elian Lusy, a czech brand. i think it's 4-ply. i can't remember how long it took but it seemed long.

now i'm working on a sleeveless top, not sure what the front will be like but i've done most of the back in a couple days because it's very very straightforward after all the complicated scarves.