girl cradles precious pretty things

Wow, I just had one of the worst dreams I've ever had.

I was going to receive some type of award, or maybe it was a family reunion. My whole family was in this place, and there was this room with this thing with all of their names on it, and mine wasn't there. I wanted to write mine in on it but no one else wanted me to. Then the thing I was writing on was someone's face and they said I should just do it later because I didn't have a pen, just concealer. We walked back to the wherever it was and I was swinging on a swing and I was crying because my family didn't want me to be in my family and nobody noticed.

I just ate like four bags worth of M&M's. Holy God, I have no self control.

I dreamed last night that nitesh , classicwolf , anthean , and myself were trying to knit Spice Girls costumes. anthean was really adamant that they all be matching shapes, but different colors. As I recall, I argued for different shapes that still looked like they belong together, like the Sailor Scouts' shoes. This was very important.

In other news, I've almost finished my made-of-awesome hat!

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Sadly, however, the top has turned out a little weirdly boxy and large. Hence my uncertain faces. It's definitely wearable, but I'd like it to be a little closer to the size of my actual head. I'm considering using the US 3's I used for the brim to reknit the top half or one-third of it, but I'm not sure how much of a difference that will make. I think the problem was that I started feeling so comfortable with stranding that I got super relaxed, and apparently it showed in the size of my stitches. I've asked knitting , so we'll see what they say (I do like them) but otherwise I think I'll do it. It looks pretty god GOOD as it is, but I'd really like to LOVE wearing it.

I swear I will tell you all about school eventually. Gah.

HOW DID I NEVER ENCOUNTER THIS BEFORE??

I am simultaneously overjoyed and terrified.

Well, I am back. I've been here all the time, but I felt icky about posting because I felt icky about all the layouts I was trying. But I've found one, and Joyce has increased dramatically in fabulousity.

I ought to update more often.

A lot is going on, but it's all school whatnot. I'm going on a field trip for Marine Bio tomorrow, though - tidepools! I'll give you guys a rundown of my classes at a later date. I seem to have a small attention span at the moment.

I got a quarter of an hour raise at work today! Apparently Boss the Less Awkward (as compared to Boss the More Awkward, Boss Behind-the-Whiteboard, and Boss the Boss - I have in fact landed myself in a situation with four bosses) suggested it, which was like... awesome. I had been feeling kind of crappy about this whole week and I sort of almost cried when he said that.

Anyway, more later. PROMISE.

Wahoo, I've never done one of these before. I'm only doing this one because OM NOM NOM. I chose it because the combination of the first syllables of my first and middle names sound similar to this tasty treat. I'm not even that much of a mallomar aficionado. BUT WAHOO CHOCOLATE.

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Also, classes later. YAY MALABRIGOOOOOO

... appears to be my main talent.

I've been sick this week. That's kind of all the news there is. I feel kind of AAAAHH because I only have a week or so left of break and I haven't seen Brad (or anyone else) in the last four days. AAAH WASTING TIME NOOOO.

I made a quiche on Monday, and Brad came over and ate it with us, which was nice. I was kind of preoccupied with all of the things I wished I'd done differently, though, so I made him promise to come back for a second edition.

I've been thinking about what to do with the beauuuuutiful skein of Malabrigo given to me for Christmas-slash-Collective-Unbirthday by the lovely anthean . I had almost settled on using this stitch pattern, but the little v's this yarn makes in stockinette are just too elegant to make me want to use any fancy-pants stitches. I have also come across this hat (Ravelry link, sorry, useless to everyone except anthean ), which makes me simultaneously want to have a seizure and knit one for myself. Does, however, necessitate the purchase of a SECOND COLOR of this heavenly stuff, to which I am not altogether opposed. I think I would do some kind of a dark blue, though, not the orangey-red. But really, it is like clouds made out of unicorns. I didn't understand until I tried knitting with it. It's amazing. I feel like I need to whisper when it's even in the room.

Better tomorrow, please? That would be swell.

LOOK YOU GUYS THIS IS COOL: http://kevan.org/johari?name=mollm… http://kevan.org/nohari?name=mollm… I thought I might be introspective right now, but I think maybe later.

I was astonished to realize that I actually haven't updated in over a month. I think it's because I consider updating really often, but then end up going to sleep or reading or watching TV or something else like that. Le sigh.

So, finals are happening. I only have one actual test, though, and it's Spanish 101 (hurrah) but for my other three classes I just have massive disgusting papers--fortunately I have already done two of them! I turned in Soc on Wednesday and I'm turning in Film today. Wahoo. This means I just have Stupid Frontier Class Paper (which I have not started at all, I anticipate some ridiculousness here) and Español.

But speaking of film, can I just mention how much I love Saving Private Ryan? I watched it for my film paper on World War II combat genre films, and I love it. In particular I love the Southern sharpshooter guy. Actually, no, I just love everyone. It's a freaky movie what with all the people with no faces and guts and stuff, but I love it anyway. Oh my goodness.

IT IS NEARLY CHRISTMAS HURRAY.

That is all.

So I had TERRIBLE dreams last night.

First I dreamed about this big dirt road thing in the forest and it was really steep and there was all of this water, and I was a cowboy and I met these people who had stolen our horses, so that was bad, so we (for some reason my mother was there) went into the horse-corral thing and chased all the horses out. Then we turned into really big giant orangutans and I was leaping all over the place in slow motion, wondering why I was an orangutan if they were an endangered species.

Then I dreamed that my whole family was somewhere (again in the woods with a lot of water, although I think it might have been my aunt and uncle's house) and Harriet was there too and there were these two really mean cats and they like, leaped on her and hurt her the side of her face and she was bleeding and so we picked her up and held her in the car on the way to the vet and I was realizing we didn't bring the cat carrier. We got there and I was freaking out because she was bleeding a lot and they said she had hurt her shoulder too and then I put her on the table thing and realized she was wrapped in a tortilla.

Then I was going around in this house that this lady was saying she had painted white and she didn't like it. I didn't like it either.

Then I was in her pool and I was in one of those deep sea diving suits and I was stuck in there but then I was simultaneously on the rescue team. The other suit thing was floating around and when we got it open there wasn't anyone in there but what we said was something about how the water had gotten in. Then they were trying to get me out, and I thought that it worked but then after that I was in some weird store and I kept running around looking for the people who rescued me because I wanted to ask them why I didn't make it.

All in all it was extremely uncomfortable and I kept trying to wake myself up near the end but I kept going back to these weird dreams when I fell asleep. Waaaaah.