shoot me now

Can you spot the problem here? I just finally realized that all of the work I've done this morning was wrong and pointless. Trying very hard to believe that doesn't say something meaningful/symbolic about my stupid life right now.

endurance

Very beginnings of a cross stitch project, inspired by that piece of Hmong embroidery. Longer story there, but I'll get to that some other day. I am trying very hard to focus on the idea of endurance, specifically the building of it. Don't feel bad for my failings, just focus on doing a little better/more each day. I don't know if it's really working.

spring thaw!

So I've been practicing embroidery stitches all over the place, and I realized today that (a) I embroider a lot of nature scenes and (b) I embroider a lot of spring-time nature scenes. Next I'm going to try to embroider a foot of snow on top of everything. And I'll make it an urban scene! Buildings and everything! Ohhh shit!

handmade

Oh, dearies, what a week. Craft night was last night; lovely new (to me) people, and I learned three different variations on the Herringbone stitch. I was the only one embroidering; everyone else was making presents because they are nice people who plan ahead and make handmade gifts. I should start holiday shopping soon...

Anyway! Embroidery and history, all day everyday. Have obrovský paper due tomorrow, really think I might be able to get it to a non-embarrassing point by then. (See how I threw in some Czech there? I'M SMART.[obviously, since I only noticed on a second read that I spelled it "check" at first. FAIL.]) It's only 11:35am and already I've finished... I don't know, a page or two. Still! I am working before noon, clearly I have already won the day.

What else? Gmail has a new Tasks list function; totally amazing. That will do until I get my iPod touch/iPhone and am able to obsessively check/update iCal all day. Because obvs that's what I'm doing now, with that little iCal icon inches away from this here text box.

Okay. On to the paper writing. Photos of crappy embroidery to come.

swirls

1. New idea, may take forever to finish if I continue as planned. Could be potentially awesome.

2. Guess what I found? That's right, a whole mess of 15 year old embroidery floss that I bought when I was into cross stitching.

3. Other than all the embroidery, today was very difficult. Sometimes I think that I'm not very good at my job.

i miss nature

See, I told you I was relearning embroidery.

(I have so much to do, but I am not going crazy. Obviously it's all the sewing and embroidery.)