I finished up the spring semester, but I have to finish one more class before I can really feel as though I’m done. Since the college semester is shorter than the Texas Education Agency’s attendance requirement for high school students, I am taking a Maymester microeconomics class. It is all right. Three hours a day, every day is tedious, but economics is not bad.

Knitting? Not much. Maybe over the summer. 

I got a perfect score on yesterday’s Microbiology exam.

There was a lot of progress on the new sweater before the semester started. But then—the semester started.

I read the worst book ever. Naked Lunch. I recommend you never, ever read it. I then proceeded to read A Clockwork Orange, which is delightfully edgy in a way that Naked Lunch can only dream of being.

I think it’s cute.

I knit this little guy yesterday afternoon. 

This is the blue doily, finally blocked. I did not, as is probably apparent, measure a perfect circle. I just started pinning wildly.

This is the Zissou Hat. I don’t like working on it very much; the acrylic is squeaky on the bamboo.

I started another sweater. 

I finished another semester. The unrelenting passage of time is unnerving, young as I am. It seems only to be speeding up each year. Perhaps it returns to a more leisurely pace in middle age? I’ve been leaving the house only unwillingly since my break began; I prefer to knit, read, or go for walks (I suppose that, technically, is leaving the house. I mean, then, ‘home.’)

On the bookshelf: I just finished The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow) and I’m about halfway through The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen). I’m also reading Cien Años de Soledad (Gabriel García Márquez) but that’s very slow going; I’m far from fluent in Spanish.

One the needles: I finally got around to blocking a doily I made a year ago. I still need to block Butterfly; I have had little motivation to do so, as only a few days so far have been cold enough to require sweaters. I’ve worked a miniscule amount on the Zissou Hat, and I’ve made a bit of progress on Maxwell’s sleeves.