Thanksgiving Etc.

Can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here? I'm not even shopping this holiday season and I feel like we're hurtling toward Christmas faster than I care to. For some reason, I thought time would seem to slow a bit if I wasn't scampering to and fro searching for just the right this or that as the clock ticks down. We're heading to the in laws in rural VT for Thanksgiving as we do every year. This year, I'm baking fresh dinner rolls. Hopefully they turn out, although what doesn't when you're kneading with dough hooks on your trusty Kitchen Aid mixer?? On Friday we have plans to go up to Canada which will be my first trip since 1986 (or thereabouts) when the family sojourned up to Winnepeg for the day. According to my mother in law, there is a Canadian equivalent of Black Friday (my guess is that this is powered by all of the American's driving up) so we plan to do some shopping. Google tells me the exchange rate is that $1 Canadian=$0.79 US so it's in our favor. I'm really excited to practice my French although I'm sure it won't truly be needed but when you're in Quebec, do as the Quebecois! I'm also trying to get M, J, S, and A to go to a dive townie bar on Friday night since we will all be up there at the same time and have yet to meet up.

In school news, I'm reaching the finish line for the semester. One final and one final exam and that's it. I practice on M several times this weekend and am only forgetting some of the musculoskeletal exam which is not my comfort zone to begin with. Luckily, we have class tomorrow followed by an open lab session so my partner and I plan to each run through the PE once on each other. Then at some time point in the two upcoming weeks, we have to perform the exam on each other in front of our clinical professor to pass the course. I also emailed the not so helpful grad school liason to find out if the Policy/Ethics class will be offered online in Summer because I would certainly rather do that than have to go to campus both Monday and Tuesdays in Spring. I'm fully expecting a non response from her, which is par for the course.

Knitting--Wow, I'm making some progress on this blanket! It's entirely feasible that I have this done in time. I am entirely grateful that this class was not heavy otherwise I would not have been able to spend near the amount of time on it. We're not out of the woods yet when Panel C is done. After that, a lot of sewing needs to happen, then there are 2 edged pieces to knit and apply. I plan on taking it in the car with us and knit a ton to and from Vermont since I can't drive M's car (stick shift). It dawned on me this weekend that I need a decoy project, something to work on in the presence of the inlaws since it would be uncouth for them to see me slaving away on their Christmast gift. I decided to restart the Cobblestone Pullover for M...horror of horrors, I have to work with Brown again! This sweater was once in the works long before the blanket so the yarn has been lurking around the house for some time, but seriously, what a cruel twist of fate. At least I get to use my favorite yarn, Classic Elite 150. His sweater will be in Chestnut and I think it will knit up fast. Thank the lord it has 0.000 cables!

knittin--progress, cobblestone pullover