6:30 am
Lovely Thursday.
I will not go into work today, though I do have plenty of work to do. I must
get a very solid start on grading the first assignment that the students handed
in this week. Besides that, I would like to do some cooking (roast some
eggplants, start some sourdough bread, maybe make more crackers). And I need to
see about driving up to the new fiber crafty store to get a linen hand towel woven
by a friend to give another friend for her wedding. I would have preferred
buying it directly from the friend, but she had none, having put them all at
the store. I decided also to make a hot pad which I knit last night from some
of the dark/variegated colored wool. It looks very nice right now, I will cross
my fingers that the felting goes well. I think there is enough yarn to also
make a few smaller coasters to go with it.
The wedding
is Sunday and I am a bit nervous about it. I was feeling very anxious bc I had
set aside Sunday, but the invite referred to an event Saturday evening and I wasn’t
sure if my friend would be expecting us
for that, also. I finally, yesterday, emailed to let her know and she responded
right away and didn’t sound at all annoyed, so that is good. Now I just have to
figure out WHAT TO WEAR! Oh dear, not as if I have lots of dressy things to
choose from, and I am figuring it could be quite chilly, being right on the
coast.
Other very
nerve-wracking event coming up: the big ride on Saturday. I am extremely
nervous about that. I have never biked 70 plus miles in my life, and the hills
on this are pretty extreme. Last weekend we biked up to Conway and so
encountered some major hills. We did ok. It ended up being 50 miles and I was
pretty beat. One of the things I am quite concerned about is the cold. Or rather
the cold and heat. I am not sure what I am going to wear and how to adjust
things as the temperature changes. On the ride last weekend I was ok on the
hills, but froze on all the big downhills. It was very uncomfortable. Tues I biked
into work and went over the Notch from the north – a first for me. I was very
proud of myself. I brought some warm stuff, including long pants, a fleece and
a windbreaker. At the bottom of the hill I took off the pants and fleece. It was
fine. At the top I put the windbreaker on and that helped with the chilly
downhill. Would have helped even more if I had zipped it… so I guess I will go
with something like that. I will probably not do any riding today, I did not
ride yesterday. Yesterday I instead ran at the gym. I even managed to do it
before lecture which was a tad tight, but worked out. Tomorrow I think I will
bike in again. Oh brother. Part of me will be very happy not to feel like I must
be “training” which is how I’ve been feeling for several weeks. We still have
the big ride up through CT in October, but that will be on our own time and
only 40-50 miles per day. And pretty flat as far as I can tell. Though probably
chilly. But again, on our own time so we can start when things warm up. On Saturday
I hope to start really early to give myself more time, which will mean getting
to Look Park about 6:30 – 7 when it will be dark and cold.
Enough of
all that. Another fiber project has been to knit a Calorimetry (from Knitty)
headband out of the purple lichen-dyed fiber sandwich stuff. I spun one ounce
fairly thick and plied it with thread to help hold the bits in place. It is
looking very nice, though I have nearly run out, so last night I spun another
ounce. It is now drying so I will add that in. after that I will have 2 more
ounces of that stuff, which I think I will spin up the same way.
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