In which markedly little knitting was done...

I have had barely any time to knit this week; marking mountain was more overwhelming than usual, but by really pushing and getting grammar marked early, I was able to spend Thursday evening watching The Phantom Menace for the first time in YEARS, and I cast on the Mystic Spiral sock that I have been itching to do for more than a year now. I have a strong suspicion that I bungled the first spiral which lead to starting the diagonal band in the wrong place, but once I start the second spiral I’ll try and get it sorted out. No way am I pulling out a rare evening of knitting freedom’s work! I am also trying to get my second Time Traveler sock done; I’m just about ready to turn the heel. Good thing, because my floors are COLD at night. It occurred to me, looking at my two sock projects, that I am big time channeling the 70’s right now. Could be worse…

I also pulled out of long-term hibernation my crazy blanket which I want to finish off for stash dash. I got a triangle and a half done while watching First Knight on Saturday, and hope to get the second one finished soon. I’m debating how to do the boarder; the idea of doing it in four parts and then sewing the corners seems rather untidy to me… I wonder if that was just to keep you from having to knit rows that never end?

Well, that’s me for this week—hopefully more knitting news after mid-term reports are done and in. Remind me why I chose a profession with +3 hours of homework every night?

Oh--another book swept me away this week, but in a different way. The Handmaid's Tale is something that has been on my list for awhile because a friend read it, and because people keep referencing it in regards to our new political leaders. On the one hand, this was absolutely written from a place of feminism and deep mistrust for Christianity, but the thing that scares me is that I can see the seeds of this in conservative Christian culture. I don't think for a moment that things will ever go that way, but to have been so often treated as less than an adult because I am a single woman... Very thought provoking.