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coming unburied

It's been nearly two weeks since my last post, which is both outrageous and a bit worrying, yet (regretfully) completely in keeping with my Schedule of Doom. I've spent most of the last month on this work routine:

8.30 a.m. to 10.30 p.m. -- proofread, mark essays, design socks, research paper, mark essays, make sandwich, wonder what the outdoors feels like, proofread, write paper, mark essays, chart socks, poke about in garden, ignore cats at window, proofread, mark essays

10.30 p.m. to 12.30 a.m. -- sleep

12.30 a.m. to 6.30 a.m. -- proofread, mark essays, typeset, research paper, mark essays, sneak in guilty look at Ravelry, wonder what Matthew's sleeping body feels like, edit patterns, mark essays, investigate wild student claims about modernism, ignore cats at window, typeset, write paper, mark essays

6.30 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. -- sleep

It's a bit like being a real grown-up but on a somewhat more sleep-deprived time clock.(Actually, it's like having children but without the children.)

HOWEVER, it should be improving soon. Maybe even this week. I got more than seven hours (seven hours!) sleep every single night this weekend. I'm nearly finished (this lot of) the essays, the typeset/proofread has been returned, teaching ends at the end of this week (barring the next lot of essays) and I delivered my paper so can now play about with it while knitting instead of tearing out my hair.

losing battle

I might have a slight obsession with this yarn. I haven't bought it yet, but my credit card just appeared out of nowhere and is making threatening gestures of rebellion against my humble conviction to stave off feeding the stash. Help!

decisions made!

Thank you so much to everyone who left a comment! Interestingly, I don't think there was any clear runner for First Choice, or even Second Choice. Even more interestingly is that I still haven't made a final decision insofar as deciding to make one garment. Rather I'm going to make four. Potentially. I have the yarn chosen for four, if only purchased for one, and the patterns ready and waiting at my fingertips for all of them.

28thirty, which I bought a couple of days ago -- my first single-pattern purchase ever -- definitely in Fleece Artist Organic Wool

Lace Panel Cardi in Lovegarn Iceland

or Fyberspates BFL DK (pic nicked from the Fyberspates webpage)

or Devon Fine Fibres Bowmont DK

Round the Corner Hoodie in possibly the Fyberspates BFL or the Devon Fine Fibres Bowmont; and Green Iisis in Biggam Designs DK (in a gorgeous canary yellow which I have yet to purchase, but by heaven I will!).

Thank goodness the latest Twist Collective is a bit on the meh side, so I don't have anything else tempting me. Of course, I've been doing everything BUT knit lately, which might explain why I'm being so freaking indecisive. I'm delivering my first paper on Thursday -- the trajectory of James Bond's crisis of being over the 007 series and how it (and his increasingly collapsing perception of the symbolic order he serves) ends up changing the face of the spy genre -- so I've been trying to stay focussed and just work on that. Not easy when I've got essays that need marking and a freelance deadline, both due on Friday. Oi! I am seriously looking forward to Saturday.