So, Christmas break has officially started for those of us who's life revolves around the schedule of schools. Final grades aren't out yet so tension still flavors the air, but is no longer the totality of the lives around me. I find myself with a sudden abundance of free time for reading and knitting. In the last 4 days, I've binge read my way through the complete Lunar Chronicles, knit almost an inch on my latest pair of socks, frogged a lace shawl (started during break last year) that was beyond repair, wrapped presents, and driven to my dad's house for a visit and back home for work. It's so nice to have free time!
I do plan to finish these socks by the end of the month. There's a whole list of things I have to do to over the next 4 weeks I have off from school. These include the extra 10 hours per week I'm putting in at work. Those extra work hours really aren't anything, because personal goals and how I spend my time outside necessary adult social obligations are more important in my mind. Tomorrow's project is making fliers for my knitting/other-needlework club at college who's members are dwindling and will be cut short by 75% when May graduation rolls around. Recruitment shoes will need to be put on come January! (Ugh, there's a good reason I didn't join a sorority in the last four years.)
On a happier note: I'm submitting several pieces for publication to the student literary journal at my uni. I've gotten good reviews from several people I've asked to read and critique, so here's hoping!
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas, not to be politically incorrect, but because I celebrate Christmas and am hoping to be merry myself. If you don't celebrate the same things I do then take it in the spirit of the general well wishing and go on.
