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December 30, 2006
The new tattoo.
On the day I handed in my final paper of the semester, I went to the Living Art Studio (their website is down) and got my long-awaited tattoo from Coleman. It was a great experience and I will definitely go back to him when I get my next tattoo urge. It took about an hour and a half and wasn't so painful, really. Dave came with me and dozed in a chair next to me. Apparently it's not that exciting a process to watch.
Brian requested that I post a scabby, flakey picture of the tattoo, but I thought I'd wait a bit. It's not totally healed yet, but it's getting there. I think it needs a bit of a touch up in some of the solid black areas, but I'll have to wait and see.
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December 28, 2006
crafty week
After knitting Dave a pair of mittens and myself a cute little hat-thingy from Knitty, I found my long-lost embroidery patterns from Sublime Stitching and went a little nuts.
My first project was a camera case for a cutie new camera I bought with some Christmas money. This was followed closely by an iPod case. The iPod case came out pretty nicely, but I was a little lazy when I made the camera case and it looks kind of crappy. Well, what can you do? It's a barrel of monkeys, by the way:
Then I used some leftover felt to make a case for my cell phone (which I didn't photograph) and a little coffee cup holder (so as to be careful about wasting paper, while still protecting my wimpy fingers from hot cups!):
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December 16, 2006
Second coffee of the week.
I have one, much shorter, paper to write by Wednesday. It needs to be 12 to 15 pages, and I have about four or five. And I have a pretty good sense of the direction I'm taking with it, so I am somewhat hopefull that I might be at the point of revising it by Monday morning. We'll see! Not having to attend or teach classes really makes all the difference in the world with this kind of work. Unfortunately, this paper is in Spanish, so I'm on my own with the editing, unless I find someone from UMass who's not that busy... which is very unlikely. Regardless, by Wednesday I'll be finished with all my work for the semester and will have a little break before Hampshire January Term starts up.
I seem to have decided to celebrate this by making an appointment on Wednesday afternoon for that long-awaited tattoo... Its been five years since my first one, so I'm a little nervous. Do you think I've prepped myself for the pain by taking up leg-waxing this year?
I'm not there yet, though. I need to go spend a couple of hours in the Smith Library before taking a break to attend my first (sorry I missed yours, Dave and Jen) holiday party of the season! (Hence the coffee.)
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December 14, 2006
"Jarts" made me a little nervous when we played this summer.
Radar Magazine's list of the most dangerous toys. Very scary.
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December 11, 2006
Jittery and scholarly, that's what I am.
I am getting dangerously close to finishing the semester, which is a prospect that, in the last week or so, has turned from terrifying to fantastic. I will hand in my first of two final papers tomorrow-- and am now waiting for my fourth draft of it to print out so I can continue trying to put everything in an order that works. Since I was in class until 6:30 tonight, I'm having my first coffee in several months in hopes of being awake enough to get it all done before tomorrow morning. One of the most exciting things about this paper is that it's in English, for a change, and so Dave has been able to help me edit it. My next one's in Spanish, though, so I'll be on my own.
Our new apartment is still great, although the responsibility required to live here has made it slightly more complicated to get away for the holidays. I'm pretty sure we've got it all squared away, though, with friends volunteering to come stay here and handle our duties as "Resident Managers." Especially exciting is that Clem has officially discovered that what is outside the apartment is not nature but hallway. He can't comprehend that it's not his hallway, so he frequently runs out the door when we open it up and gets a full head of steam going so he can propell himself down the hall towards the fire escape as quickly as possible. When he reaches his goal, he stops and turns around and just looks at us, to make sure we know that he has beaten us once again. Rosa is a little more freaked out by the hallway. She slowly crouches her way out and then she and Clem circle each other like they've never met before. At this point, she retreats back to the apartment.
Okay, my paper must be printed by now.... time to read it again.
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