So I thought I’d have some more free time when I was finished taking my two classes this summer. Fitting a graduate course that would normally take three months into a week and a half is pretty intense. It was about teaching classical mythology in elementary school, though, and my professor and classmates were a lot of fun, as was the actual work. For our final assignment, a classmate and I presented a lesson plan for teaching Grade Twos and Threes the story of Odysseus and the Sirens. As you can see, it involved masks.

Although I am wearing a mask, my classmate is actually not. I just figured that she probably would prefer that her face did not randomly appear on a knitblog, so I gave her a happy face in Photoshop.

Yeah, so the having-more-time-once-finished-classes thing was a gross miscalculation. I’m considerably busier than I was before that course started this month. I’m currently working six days a week so I can try to make up some of the days I had to take off from my summer job to take the mythology class, I have to pack all my stuff and figure out where I’m going to live in the fall, and so on, and so forth.

I actually did reach the point where I am denying all knowledge of the sunglasses case. (What sunglasses case?) I did all the knitting for it but never sewed the seams because 1) that is not fun, or at least it isn’t fun for me, and 2) I am never going to use a sunglasses case because I don’t wear sunglasses, so I am rather unmotivated. I’ll do it sometime, when the thought of it being unfinished finally bugs me more than the thought of sewing the sides up. I did take a picture of its progress at one point. I think I overcompensated in making sure the ribbing was not too loose.

I started a simple purse with cotton yarn. I have come up with three theories:

1. Cotton is my mortal enemy.
2. Bernat Handicrafter Cotton that I got for $1.57 at Zellers is my mortal enemy.
3. Even though I like aluminum needles, I am a moron for trying to use them with cotton.

I am leaning toward believing that #3 is the most correct of the theories and have started over using bamboo needles, but it’s really too soon to tell how (if?) this is going to work out. If things continue to go poorly, then I’m going to go down a needle size from 5 mm to 4.5 mm.

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