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The saga is over. Phew! That semester was craaaazy! But it’s over now and I have nothing but free evenings and BBQs ahead of me. ;)

I didn’t actually finish my last take home final until 5:30 PM on Friday, the longest finals week on record! I spent 8 hours in the library, sitting in the same chair the entire time. I put my pencil down at 5:30 and realized, “Hey, I’ve been sitting here all day!” What I’m really curious to know is how I managed to go 8 hours without using the bathroom…I must be turning into Jack Bauer!

Thanks so much for everyone who sent me good wishes on my crazy hard final, I actually got a B+ in the class! I’m very excited, because I was sure she was going to fail us all. It’s not good when the entire class scores an average of 50% on the midterm (worth 40% of our grade) and. I think the final went a lot better though, and I’m very happy with my grade! (Although I did have a small nervous breakdown before the test, followed by a huge adrenaline rush. It took me 10 minutes to stop shaking after it was over!)

I also traveled back down to the metropolis of Socorro for the first time since I graduated last year, to see a few of my friends receive their diplomas. It was really strange, because even though it was only a year ago, it feels like it was a whole other era! I think the fact that my friends who just graduated were my last link to Socorro also helped to make it feel like the end of a season. Even though my last year of school wasn’t the greatest, I still had a lot of good memories down at New Mexico Tech, here’s a collage to prove it! And yeah, I had about 15 different hair colors for those 4 years…don’t ask ;)

I also have to say congratulations to Holly and Carmen on getting those elusive diplomas! Holly, Carmen and I were pretty much like the 3 Amigos during our Tech tenure, and I’m super excited that they’ve both finished the gauntlet! Jeez, we’re getting old! ;)

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Holly (she’s kinda crazy like me!) and Carmen → Congrats! </div

Ok, that’s enough sentimental college memories for me…maybe someday I’ll tell you about all the crazy things I did in college! __On second thought, maybe not!__

PS: I promise that a fitness update is coming soon! I started running again yesterday, and it was great! I’m looking forward to a bit more activity over the summer now that I’m not consumed by homework and tests.

PPS: I’m almost done with the Broad Spiral Rib Socks…and am hoping to get lots of Garden Shawl knitting done with my free time now! That’s right Mom, I’m gonna knit on the shawl! Happy Mother’s Day!

Man am I ready for this week to be over! It’s been a long one, full of late hours at campus and lots of homework. I also had lots of Yarn Nerd orders to ship out, (thanks everyone, you rock!), so I often found myself awake at 1 am, packing yarn or working on math simulations. The math simulations aren’t so hot, but at least the yarn shipping is still a labor of love, so I don’t mind packing a few skeins up in the wee hours. I keep telling myself that I’ll keep more humane hours after school is over, but then I’m sure I’ll spend a few nights watching movies and knitting into the early hours too. At least I’m still young, because I think in a few years this lack of sleep thing won’t be so easy to recover from.

I have a nice relaxing weekend planned, involving dyeing up some Create Your Skein orders, knitting on my sock, and a little yard work. The yard work isn’t terribly relaxing, I have to install a new sprinkler timer and a new pond pump, but it’s a change of pace from bit error rate calculations so it should be nice. Speaking of the weekend, I woke up this morning to find my sock (which may or may not be a physical manifestation of my inner fratboy) trying to convince me that it was high time for a beer. While the sock made a convincing argument on why I deserved a nice treat after a long week, I had to tell him that it just wouldn’t happen. Just because it’s “5 o’clock somewhere” doesn’t mean I can just go hog wild, at 8 am nonetheless. I guess I’ll just have to wait until 5. Anyone else looking forward to quitting time after a long week?

The sock is progressing nicely though, and I’m hoping to sail down to the foot this weekend so I can seam it’s mouth shut…I’m getting tired of it trying to get me to shirk all my responsibilities…

Also, my Eye Candy for today is the lovely pond Irises (I think that’s right, is that what you said they were Mom?), which are beginning to bloom. I’m looking forward to the summer as my backyard is a great place to hang out and listen to the pond, while taking a nap in the grass. It’s a lot of work to get it up and going, but I’m making steady progress. Plus, I think the Irises alone make up for all the labor!

Finally, the last thing I have before sailing off into the wonderful land of miller time is a finished object that I’m very proud of. Although I didn’t knit this sock, I did dye the yarn for it, and I think it’s smoking hot. It was knit by Chawne (I don’t know if she has a blog, but her Flickr photos speak for themselves), with my 900 MHz Merino the in Tour de France colorway. This is one of my favorite colorways and I think she did real tribute to it with her simple sock design. *Isn’t it sweet?*

I was sad :( to find that Chawne found 4 knots in the skein when she wound it. 4 knots? Man that would make me mad if I was knitting it! Knots do occur occasionally when hand-dyeing, but I always try to limit them, and I would definitely not send out a skein with 4 knots if I knew about it. But sometimes the skeins come from the mill with knots already, and those ones are sneaky little buggers.

Anyway, the short of it is, if you buy yarn from Yarn Nerd and are less than pleased, do let me know! I want you to be extremely happy with every Yarn Nerd purchase, and I will do whatever it takes to keep you as a Yarn Nerd fan. I value my customers highly, and I would love to hear your opinions on my yarn (good and bad). Because good customer service just makes the world a better place, ya know?

Oh boy, 10 minutes until 5, I can’t wait! Have a great weekend everyone!