On the upside, I only have 2 lessons today, as opposed to the 5 that I had yesterday, we have our first person coming to view the flat today, and I'm beginning to get to grips with my planning so I should be able to come to knitting next week.
I also offer some preemptive apologies for the lack of blog posts in the next few weeks. Easter is not that far away (thank heaven).
The play was split into 7 chapters, each featuring a different character. The billing made it clear that it was a work in progress. I felt that the final chapter was a bit ropey. It was also way too long. Who wants the sit for 4.5 hours in an evening? In fact we were there for about 6 hours because of the intervals and the start. By the end I was dropping off to sleep. Lepage intends the final version to be 9 hours long, which I think is just asking for people to loose interest. I would be happy to go and see three seperate plays of 3 hours each, but I don't think I've ever been happy to sit and do anything for 9 hours. I don't even sleep that long.
I do not think that it was a wasted evening of my life. Particularly since I managed to overcome second sock syndrome during the interval, by casting on for the toe of the second Wyvern sock. I did this thinking I would have to overcome my boredom by knitting through the performance, but I was never bored.
So, in short, it's worth going, but if you do go take a picnic tea and some strong coffee. 
Now there's just the small matter of some uni work and some lessons I have to finish planning for next week. We're also going to see a 4.5 hour play/improvised thing by Robert Lepage, this evening at the Northern Stage reviewed here. I'm interested to see what the theatre is like, as I haven't been since the renovation, but I can't say that the length is making me that enthusiastic. We'll see.
I finally got around to making a little skirt for my ballerina bunny yesterday. She's now waiting to be taken to the post office. Here she is limbering up.
In answer to GourdonGirl's post here are a couple of photos of our fridge. I didn't take the bottom half because it's empty. Mostly it's postcards, but there are some stickers (these are Graeme's, he's very selective) and some magnets (Korean Ladies and some I made). Not particularly interesting, but we've only had this fridge a couple of years.
To add to this Emily had brought her ball winder so I got to wind all the skeins in my stash into lovely centre pulling cakes. Now, I don't want to paint a picture of myself as a sad person, who hasn't got out much recently, but it really was one of the funnest things I've done in a while. I just love mechanical processes, and I love them all the more when they're so simple and produce such lovely results. 
On top of all this excitement I also had some fabulous food cooked by Emily, Helen, Jen, Lucy and Glenda. Yum!
It wasn't all frivolity and excitement. I did spend quite a considerable amount of time trying to wind a skein of Hipknits Silk into a ball. It turned out to be impossible to wind on the ball winder because some parts of it were so tightly wound and the skein was just a mess. I ended up winding it onto Becca's stick thing by hand. I'd just watched her do some and she came out with a nice, neat centre pulling ball. Mine ended up a right mess (anything to do with the wine I was drinking, or my wondering attention???). I won't go into too much details, though I feel I must apologise to the other ladies for the stream of expletives issuing from my lips for the majority of the evening. The nice thing about doing this in the company of knitters was that not one person suggested that I was getting unreasonably irate, or a bit obsessed. Everyone was very sympathetic.
I did think that I wouldn't want to look at the stuff again, but then I got home last night and started this. I actually feel like it was worth all the pain. 
(Yes that is a wooden spoon the yarn in on. The ball was starting to collapse.)
Thanks to everyone who had a hand in organising the weekend. Particularly Lucy.
Secondly, about my cousin Tracy's wedding in Sheffield last Saturday. Tracy and Steve have been together for about 12 years and home only just got round to tying the knot. Here they are cutting the cake. 
I was feeling fairly lazy during the evening so I gave my camera to my willing sister-in-law-to-be, Michelle, who took some good photos. I also now have a large collection of close-up photos of my brother. For example:
I have several reasons for not getting round to posting earlier. I somehow seem to have ruined my camera batteries, which now only work for about 2 minutes, even after charging. I still haven't managed to get all of my photos off there. I was in school all week last week, and after weeks of being apathetic I finally feel motivated (or petrified) enough to actually do some work. We also had our house valued, which meant lots of cleaning and we went to view a couple of other houses yesterday.
Finally, I have a job interview tomorrow, which is scaring me most of all, and will be taking up a lot of today in preparation. I only found out about the interview on Wednesday evening. It hasn't done much for my sleep patterns, or general sanity over the last few days. I need to keep reminding myself that it's not that important. In 36 hours it will be over. Can't wait.
There would have been some knitting content to this post, but I'll save it for when I can extract the photos from my camera.
P.S. I just wanted to point out that it has finally stopped raining, for what I think is the first time since Friday evening. We are snow-free and very wet.
