Snow

Watching snow fall is incredibly captivating. There is snow falling outside my window at the moment, and I'm finding it hard to do much else but watch (of course, I often find other excuses for not doing work, but honestly, snow is so pretty).

Gates & More

Here are a couple photos of The Gates at Central Park. They are really quite cool, and I especially like the atmosphere of the crowds of people walking around the park just relaxing and looking at the Gates. It was super crowded, but didn't feel that way...felt more like a community than a crowd. It's hard to describe. Anyway, while I was there, I saw them put up a couple of the Gates (well, they had taken them down to fix the fabric, and were re-installing them). It was pretty exciting (yes, I need to get out more), and everyone applauded when the Gates went up :) I hear that if you ask any of the Gates staff nicely for a bit of fabric, they'll give a swatch to you if they have one, but I didn't try. I don't know what I'd do with the fabric I guess.

Anyway, The Gates aside, it's been a pretty crazy fortnight. Found out that a close friend's kid is really ill, which shook my world up for a while, and am still kind of dealing with it (although obviously not as much as the family is...but just sitting here on the other side of the globe feeling very helpless). Sigh. Work's been okay, as has school. And I'm still knitting as you can see from part of a scarf I'm working on (I didn't choose the colours, it's for someone else :) So yeah. Life is kind of moving on as usual, but I'm always thinking about my friend's kid (who also happens to be a mini-me...we've got so much in common it's kinda freaky :) Sending plenty of good thoughts across the oceans.

Knitting

So I've found my newest procrastination tool - knitting. Yup, am working on my first scarf...it's a green 100% Merino wool deal. Doesn't look great, but hey, it'll keep you warm when it's done. I've decided that knitting is kind of a productive procrastination...I actually end up with a final product (as opposed to watching TV :) Hmm...I'm thinking I should start reading for fun again. Haven't done that in a while. On a weather note, it's been super nice the past few days, have almost been tempted to go out in a t-shirt :) Oooh, also, I bought a frying pan yesterday. Now I can actually cook stuff in something other than my pot.