I had a lot of plans for this weekend, and almost every one of them changed. And I slept through a good bit of Sunday as well. I hope that this will mean that I’ll be well rested and realigned with whatever tasks come my way in the week ahead.
Did someone just snort at their screen? If I published these updates in the morning it might have been a coffee spit-take, so you’re welcome.
At any rate, I’ve been staying still and doing some reading when I have the energy. Today I caught up on my page of Talmud for today (we’re almost finished with Tractate Gittin! Woohoo!), read a few sections of a 25-page chapter from The House of Owls by Tony Angell, read the short story “Christmas Eve 1953” by Tom Hanks from his 2017 collection Uncommon Type, and read “The Three Snake-Leaves” from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. (There’s a reason they don’t read this one to you at story time.)
Last week I also poked around on the Internet doing some research informal investigation on the Royal KMM and made the not-too-shocking discovery that this typewriter does not take the universal standard ribbon cartridges that will work with many, many other machines. I also watched a YouTube video that showed me how simple it is to modify a universal ribbon and spool it onto the KMM spools. So that’s another thing that I’ll be able to do in that mythical future where I have all of the time. (This may or may not be adjacent to the universe in which I have won the billion-dollar jackpot in the Mega Millions.)
Autumn is coming to my part of the world, and with it will come school, books, articles, notebooks, pens, fountain pens and their ink, pencils, time in the library, and more time in the car driving from home to school to work at dawn (or before) and back again at dusk (or after). I’ll be less in charge of my reading matter for the next few months, which may explain why I’m spending the end of summer buying books that aren’t related to the psychology of the contemporary college student. My “for fun” books may need to have shorter chapters so that I can still make progress during my retreats to them in any “free” time, and I might switch to books of poetry so that I can read between interruptions.
Knitwise, I have received a request to knit a scarf for SecondSon. (It was texted in the form of a challenge: “Can you make this?” accompanied by a photo.) I’m not yet sure if there is a deadline, but I’ll want to get it started soon so that I’ll have something to settle my nerves in case the fall schedule that I have outlined above turns out to be stressful in any way.
This much will need to do for now, as I’m getting tired again. I’ll take a look at my yarn stash and gather the supplies for the SecondSon StripedScarf. If I fall asleep while woolgathering, it will be a blessing.
Chocolate Sheep 