December 5, 2007

• Yesterday

  Yesterday was weird.  But nice.  And annoying.

  The Hairy Fairy and I failed to go out drinking: we went out eating instead.  He paid.  Bless.  He’s far too well brought up for his own good.  He’s also lost weight recently, and, where there was a double chin, there is now emerging a far too good looking chin.  Apparently, hanging where I live counts as ‘out of the student bubble’.  Well.  Now there’s interesting…  Or not.  I’ve concluded that the evening was motiveless, other than just spending time with a friend.  It’s still a little odd though.  There’s this thing about being friends with a guy.  One always suspects an ulterior motive is going to raise its head (and, once the head has been raised, you can get on with being friends properly, without all the trepidation).

  Got home reasonably early, and did much knitting on the Christmas Pudding hat.  Looked at it.  Realised it was big enough for me.  Double checked the gauge.  Well.  Four stitches to the inch was happening.  Pretty much.  However, by the time one got to checking 16 stitches over 4 inches, it was more like 15 stitches over 4 inches.  With 74 stitches, the hat should be 18.5 inches in width (it’s not knitted in the round).  It’s more like 20 inches.  So I frogged the whole thing this morning, and will start again.

  Meanwhile, the annual departmental excellence etc awards have been announced.  I think nominations were thin on the ground.  Both the people I’ve nominated are up for awards, one of whom is the Former Football Hooligan, on the grounds that he’s excellent because he shares his chocolate with me.  Naturally, despite the fact that there’s generally mass hysteria when I go on holiday, I am not mentioned in the list.  Again.  Bitter?  Me.  Not at all.  The Finance Club is going to be paying me £22 an hour to sort out their website….With luck, it’ll be about a day’s worth of work across the year and will pay for a new iPod Classic which plays videos.

  xxx

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