Here's the last of my Christmas socks. Just finished last night. I was cutting it pretty close since I go home tomorrow. I had wanted to finish more pairs, but started knitting too late. I should have started in August. Oh well.
Shoulder is still sore from the accident, but it's a tolerable discomfort (at least for me - I have a really high tolerance for pain). It gets pretty stiff sometimes in the morning, depending on if I slept on it or something. Now that my Christmas knitting is finished, maybe I can actually play some video games or work on Mariposa. I won't be able to for a few days because I won't be at home. I'm pretty excited for Christmas for the first time in quite a few years, since my sister is coming home. Normally I'm only excited for Christmas on Christmas morning, and the rest of the time, I'm a complete Grinch.
December 23, 2009
December 15, 2009
Me - 1, Car - 0
I think one of the biggest moments of my life happened yesterday. And, no. It wasn't a good moment. Yesterday afternoon I got hit by a car while I was walking to the grocery store. Needless to say, I did not get my groceries.
Luckily, the car was turning into a parking lot and wasn't going very fast. Also lucky that I didn't even break any bones. Time sort of stopped, and was looking at the car right beside me, and it seemed like I had plenty of time to move out of the way, and then I was airborne, and then on the ground on my shoulder. I got up right away, though. The girl who hit me was more upset than I was. I was even going to keep going to the grocery store, but then I got dizzy and thought I should really go to the hospital because, while I was pretty sure I didn't hit my head, I wasn't a hundred percent sure since everything happened so quickly.
And, then I had to wait, and wait and wait at the hospital. There was also an old woman there who'd broken her ankle and was waiting for three hours for a cast. Really? A pedestrian hit by a car and an old lady with a broken ankle both had to wait forever. I wonder what the people had that got to go before us. They did x-rays on my shoulder to see if there was a hairline fracture or any ACL damage, but everything seemed fine. My shoulder is sore as fucking hell, but it's all just deep tissue brusing. And, my shins are pretty sore because that's where the bumper hit me. This morning I called into work and said I couldn't go in, because I really would have been useless even though I can still completely use my right arm, and my left is fine as long as I don't have to raise it or lift anything. But, the excuse "I can't come to work. I was hit by a car..." totally seems made up to me. It's in the same ballpark as "a dog ate my homework", because normally if you're hit by a car, you're in traction or dead, not up and standing thirty seconds after it happened.
But, at least I can still knit! Thank god, since I still have Christmas knitting to finish. I also haven't worked on Mariposa in the last few days. School's pretty much all done except for a few final tests and projects that I've had to study for, and then I've been spending the rest of the time knitting. Hopefully I can get some done on it after Christmas. I do still open it and peck away a few paragraphs. But, considering how long my chapters are, that isn't very much.
Luckily, the car was turning into a parking lot and wasn't going very fast. Also lucky that I didn't even break any bones. Time sort of stopped, and was looking at the car right beside me, and it seemed like I had plenty of time to move out of the way, and then I was airborne, and then on the ground on my shoulder. I got up right away, though. The girl who hit me was more upset than I was. I was even going to keep going to the grocery store, but then I got dizzy and thought I should really go to the hospital because, while I was pretty sure I didn't hit my head, I wasn't a hundred percent sure since everything happened so quickly.
And, then I had to wait, and wait and wait at the hospital. There was also an old woman there who'd broken her ankle and was waiting for three hours for a cast. Really? A pedestrian hit by a car and an old lady with a broken ankle both had to wait forever. I wonder what the people had that got to go before us. They did x-rays on my shoulder to see if there was a hairline fracture or any ACL damage, but everything seemed fine. My shoulder is sore as fucking hell, but it's all just deep tissue brusing. And, my shins are pretty sore because that's where the bumper hit me. This morning I called into work and said I couldn't go in, because I really would have been useless even though I can still completely use my right arm, and my left is fine as long as I don't have to raise it or lift anything. But, the excuse "I can't come to work. I was hit by a car..." totally seems made up to me. It's in the same ballpark as "a dog ate my homework", because normally if you're hit by a car, you're in traction or dead, not up and standing thirty seconds after it happened.
But, at least I can still knit! Thank god, since I still have Christmas knitting to finish. I also haven't worked on Mariposa in the last few days. School's pretty much all done except for a few final tests and projects that I've had to study for, and then I've been spending the rest of the time knitting. Hopefully I can get some done on it after Christmas. I do still open it and peck away a few paragraphs. But, considering how long my chapters are, that isn't very much.
December 10, 2009
Socksmas
Here's a pic of the most 'recent' pair of socks I just finished. I actually finished these socks a few weeks ago, but was just really lazy about posting that. They were made with Stroll Handpainted sock yarn from Knit Picks, in the colourway Tiger. They're pretty plain in terms of just being in stockingette stitch, but when you have handpainted or varigated sock yarn, I hate how cables and patterns look in them because all the work just gets lost. These are for my sister, and I'll find out in a couple weeks if she likes them.
School is wrapping up for the semester, except a few classes still have tons of work piled on us. Two accounting tests in two classes, and a big marketing project left. Plus, I had to start going to computer classes for the powerpoint sections of the lessons, which sucks.
School is wrapping up for the semester, except a few classes still have tons of work piled on us. Two accounting tests in two classes, and a big marketing project left. Plus, I had to start going to computer classes for the powerpoint sections of the lessons, which sucks.
December 8, 2009
Lucifer's Hammer
Here's the review for the book Lucifer's Hammer that I posted on Goodreads:
*****
The best 'disaster' book I've ever read, and I'm only sorry that I didn't read it sooner. This is a book that I knew about my entire life. It's one of my Dad's favourites, and it was always sitting around our house when I was a child, and it took me 30 years to get around to reading it, too. Though it was written in the 70s, it still actually feels pretty contemporary. We've completely lost interest in space travel, and we're still completely unprepared for a space disaster. I also liked how, despite the time period of the story, the female characters were actually some of the more interesting, though they didn't get as much attention as the male counterparts. Leonilla was a personal favourite, as was the surprisingly brass-balled Marie Vance. The book takes a little while to get going, introducing all the characters before the Hammer actually hits, but it's worth it once all the action happens, because you find you're familiar with the characters and care about them once all the shit hits the fan.
One thing that's also eerily reminsicent even in our time is how quickly we as a race dissolve into anarchy and savagery after a disaster. The whole world, for all our techonolgical advances through the ages, are always only a few meals away from total chaos.
This book should have been made into a movie years ago. I particularly feel that now that 2012 has hit theatres, and was such a wretched piece of empty special-effects. Lucifer's Hammer not only brings intense visuals about the end of the world, but a rich cast of characters who you can actually believe would survive a post-comet apocalypse. Highly recommend!
*****
The best 'disaster' book I've ever read, and I'm only sorry that I didn't read it sooner. This is a book that I knew about my entire life. It's one of my Dad's favourites, and it was always sitting around our house when I was a child, and it took me 30 years to get around to reading it, too. Though it was written in the 70s, it still actually feels pretty contemporary. We've completely lost interest in space travel, and we're still completely unprepared for a space disaster. I also liked how, despite the time period of the story, the female characters were actually some of the more interesting, though they didn't get as much attention as the male counterparts. Leonilla was a personal favourite, as was the surprisingly brass-balled Marie Vance. The book takes a little while to get going, introducing all the characters before the Hammer actually hits, but it's worth it once all the action happens, because you find you're familiar with the characters and care about them once all the shit hits the fan.
One thing that's also eerily reminsicent even in our time is how quickly we as a race dissolve into anarchy and savagery after a disaster. The whole world, for all our techonolgical advances through the ages, are always only a few meals away from total chaos.
This book should have been made into a movie years ago. I particularly feel that now that 2012 has hit theatres, and was such a wretched piece of empty special-effects. Lucifer's Hammer not only brings intense visuals about the end of the world, but a rich cast of characters who you can actually believe would survive a post-comet apocalypse. Highly recommend!
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