Random Ramblings

Today has been a good day. I completely finished knitting the hat to go with Isabelle's sweater, and had JUST enough yarn to put a pom-pom on top. Now I have absolutely no yarn left, so I won't be tempted to do any more projects, which is just as well. The sweater needs buttons, but that's all. I figure I'll buy them AFTER boxing day.

Also, after feeling completely sedentary for over a week, I pulled out my DDR pad today. I have vowed to myself that I will play at least 30 minutes a day, according to the game-clock (it works out to about 45 minutes total). Today went well. I broke out a sweat and feel good about that.

Latin is progressing slowly but steadily. I'm trying to do 10 new verbs a day to have the entire list in Kennedy memorized by the time school starts up again. I haven't been doing as much reading as I should, but at least I'm expanding my vocab.

Finally, tonight celebrates one of the few rituals I still have with my dad: every Christmas Eve we drive through the city, looking at the Christmas lights and listening to The Shepherd on CBC radio. Afterwards, we try to find an open Dunkin Donuts and usually wind up settling for Tim Hortons, upon which we have a Christmas donut. (Yes, today I prefer Timmy's, but it's the principle of the thing.) We've done this every year for a long time, probably since my parents divorced (over 15 years!). See, even the Jews have Christmas rituals! *grin*

That's it for now, folks. I may post again before bed, or not. We shall see.

My father has done a very dangerous thing: he has given me a science fiction book when my papers are due. It is taking all my willpower not to just sit on my bed and read it until it's done. The only reason I'm not is that the paper is due tomorrow. Today I've been spending about half my time reading and the other half editing my paper. I just finished the first edit, and now I must do a second run-through for things like proofreading and such. Then I need to put together the bibliography and cover page, and then it will be done. After that I will do the last few lines of Latin, and then I will immerse myself in this book and hopefully finish it today so it doesn't distract me from my next paper.