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Here I was, all set to start plugging away at my regular updates, and my computer up and decides that my camera is no longer its friend. I don’t know what’s up. One day everything was fine, then today there’s nothing. Sometimes when I plug the camera in the computer will recognize that something new has been plugged in, but that’s it. No asking me what to do. No option to upload any pictures. This simply won’t do.

If I had been able to upload pictures this afternoon, I was going to show you the edging on Aestlight and talk about how knitting it has been like pulling teeth for me. It’s beautiful and simple. I have no clue why the edging has been such a pain.

If I had been able to upload photos tonight, I could have shown you how I sucked up the pain and finished my project. I’m waiting to block it until my new blocking pads come in from KnitPicks, but it’s still very nice looking. Since I can’t show anything for it, it’s a bit anticlimactic, no?

Aside from the knitting, I have two big things coming up. First, I went to the dentist the other day and it turns out that I need a bone transplant in my mouth. This, I predict, is going to be disgusting. I had an extra tooth in my mouth when I was younger and apparently when it was removed, either a chunk of my lower jaw got taken or it left a hole that just eroded away. Really, I’m not so sure what the cause is because 1) the dentist and technician were using those big dental terminology words that I don’t know and 2) I was more or less sitting there thinking, “Wait. They want to put what where??”. Where does my new bone piece come from? A cadaver handily donated for such things. Sadly for me, this will not be the first chunk of death that’s been pieced into my body. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but I had to have a few brain operations when I was in my early teens. In the end, they had to patch me up with cadaver because I couldn’t seem to keep the back of my head together. Nice. Hopefully this will be the last “donation” I need to take. But really…..in my mouth?? Eww.

Big news #2. I start grad school on Tuesday!!! I was totally not expecting this! It was my plan to go into grad school for forensic psychology right after I got my last bachelor’s degree. Unfortunately, my wrapping up of that coincided with the death of my father, cancer and various other diseases in my mother, sickness in my grandfather and just a lot of other things that made my time not my own. It’s been 2 years now and the stress of not having anything for myself has recently been taking a real toll on me. I decided while I was on my trip that even though I had missed all the deadlines, I was going to contact the university I wanted to go to for my masters and see if I could do anything at all. The first person I talked to said no, that it was too late, but scheduled me with a graduate adviser. I went in last Wednesday and we worked it out so that I can start the program as a non-credit student and take a limited amount of credits, then enroll as a credit student next fall. The program only takes new students in the fall, so being able to start now is such a big deal. And besides that, holy crap!! I’m going to grad school!! Tuesday!! I still need to take some tests in November, but I should be all set to go. This semester I’m only taking one class as I’m a bit put of practice being a student and it’s something I want to slowly introduce into my home life. My mother’s very happy for me, but there are others (or other) who aren’t so keen on the idea and think it would be more worth my time to be a full-time caretaker and start popping out some kids. Next semester, hopefully after it’s established that it’s not like I’m abandoning everyone and grad school doesn’t equate my fading off into the sunset, I’ll take 2 classes. After that, I’m going to go all out and hopefully take about 12 credits or so a semester, plus summer classes. If all goes well, I can finish in 2 years.

Well, that’s it from me. I’m praying I can figure out this camera issue and show off my Aestlight. Next, I’m casting on for Clothilde in some LSS. I think I might have to cast on for some plain stockinette socks in an awesome colorway of STR, too, just to get my sock mojo back. It figures that it’d get lost when I have about 5 pairs of socks to finish.

Photos soon to follow?? Here’s hoping.