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Jan. 5th, 2002 01:01 amI'm like half an hour of knitting away from finishing my first sock. I can't believe how huge it is. It's going to double as a knee sock and as a loose slouchy sock. Sadly it is more off-white than I thought. But I don't think that's too much of a problem.
We're leaving to return to Pittsburgh in under 12 hours, assuming all goes well tomorrow morning with Eli's car inspection. Waaaaaah, I don't want to go back. Can't you guys all move up here and find us all jobs?
I wonder what it would be like to have a roving company... like, to have a software company working out of a bunch of trailers or something. Each week you could drive the company another hundred miles out of the way and eventually see the whole country and make money doing it.
Anyway, today we went shopping in Northampton again. I got more yarn, and lots of weird dice, and Eli got new boots and new Birks. (I should get a pair of hiking sneakers one of these years...) We went around to random other places like Faces and Thorne's Market and all, and got sushi for dinner (god I love their version of Dragon Maki up here - have I mentioned it? They put eel and avocado on top of California rolls... you get 8 pieces and it costs $6.95, as opposed to Sushi Too's dragon rolls which have avocado on top of eel rolls and it's $8.95 for 6 pieces). We went to more stores to digest for a bit (I found a store here that sells ren fest dresses. For like a hundred bucks, but still, some of them are beautiful. It took some willpower to not try any on (and well, few were in a size above M)). We got ice cream at Herrell's, which is one of the places listed in the article at Dave and Andy's about the top ten ice cream joints on the east coast. It lives up to that claim - I had some absolutely fabulous blueberry cheesecake ice cream and some strawberry.
We stopped by the Hampshire mall on the way home, to play DDR, but the machine WAS OUT OF ORDER!!!! Grrr. That is a sucky thing to happen on my last day here. Oh well.
Came home and knitted and did laundry and dug up remnants of polar fleece to make scarves out of. Watched Law and Order SVU with people. Bleh. Waiting for Eli to come upstairs so we can sleep. Oh yeah, and I'm like 50 pages into Return of the King now. I think Tolkien's split storytelling style kinda gets to me - it wouldn't be so bad if I was reading these hours at a time, but it's been days since I finished the part of Two Towers dealing with the fellowship people, and then have been reading about Frodo and Sam for the past few days, so now to reshift to the other guys... well, anyway. Eli's family has given us a ton of books, too, so I don't know how on earth I'll have time to go through all of these. Whee.
Bleh. Well, see some of you when I get back to Pittsburgh... please come over and play DDR and stuff!
We're leaving to return to Pittsburgh in under 12 hours, assuming all goes well tomorrow morning with Eli's car inspection. Waaaaaah, I don't want to go back. Can't you guys all move up here and find us all jobs?
I wonder what it would be like to have a roving company... like, to have a software company working out of a bunch of trailers or something. Each week you could drive the company another hundred miles out of the way and eventually see the whole country and make money doing it.
Anyway, today we went shopping in Northampton again. I got more yarn, and lots of weird dice, and Eli got new boots and new Birks. (I should get a pair of hiking sneakers one of these years...) We went around to random other places like Faces and Thorne's Market and all, and got sushi for dinner (god I love their version of Dragon Maki up here - have I mentioned it? They put eel and avocado on top of California rolls... you get 8 pieces and it costs $6.95, as opposed to Sushi Too's dragon rolls which have avocado on top of eel rolls and it's $8.95 for 6 pieces). We went to more stores to digest for a bit (I found a store here that sells ren fest dresses. For like a hundred bucks, but still, some of them are beautiful. It took some willpower to not try any on (and well, few were in a size above M)). We got ice cream at Herrell's, which is one of the places listed in the article at Dave and Andy's about the top ten ice cream joints on the east coast. It lives up to that claim - I had some absolutely fabulous blueberry cheesecake ice cream and some strawberry.
We stopped by the Hampshire mall on the way home, to play DDR, but the machine WAS OUT OF ORDER!!!! Grrr. That is a sucky thing to happen on my last day here. Oh well.
Came home and knitted and did laundry and dug up remnants of polar fleece to make scarves out of. Watched Law and Order SVU with people. Bleh. Waiting for Eli to come upstairs so we can sleep. Oh yeah, and I'm like 50 pages into Return of the King now. I think Tolkien's split storytelling style kinda gets to me - it wouldn't be so bad if I was reading these hours at a time, but it's been days since I finished the part of Two Towers dealing with the fellowship people, and then have been reading about Frodo and Sam for the past few days, so now to reshift to the other guys... well, anyway. Eli's family has given us a ton of books, too, so I don't know how on earth I'll have time to go through all of these. Whee.
Bleh. Well, see some of you when I get back to Pittsburgh... please come over and play DDR and stuff!
