My cat freaks me out. I’m sitting here, typing at (staring at?) the computer, and she’s sitting there watching me, and then all of a sudden, she snaps her head up toward the ceiling and is STARING, like there’s a demon punching through the ceiling, so I stop (immediately) what I’m doing and stare at whatever space of bumpy ceiling SHE is staring at…and I see nothing. All the hairs on the back of my neck are up, but…ghost? Bug? She’s just fucking with me? I just don’t know.
Yeah, like WTF is that, cat?
Right now, there’s a dog under my feet, trying to catch the cereal I drop. I do drop cereal. He’s not stupid. It’s a smart place to be. Not a very fulfilling life, if you ask me, but he does ask for (and get) lots of pets.
I’ve made this pattern of getting the hell off school campus at least once a week to take the dogs out. It’s so much easier when we get more daylight (I think we’re past 5:15 PM for sunset at this point, so that helps)…I’m glad we chose (well, I chose) this hike yesterday, because there was lots of water still. Straight in front of us is the path…underwater.
It’s OK…it doesn’t take much to go around it.
There was water everywhere…
Friday we had like 3/4s of an inch…plus more on Saturday and Monday. That’s a lot for us.
It was chilly here yesterday…in fact, I think it was warmer where the girlchild is in Boston than it was here.
Nice clear skies though…we were pushing sunset, as always.
We saw one baby coyote, giant ears, rushing toward a hiding spot. And the vernal pool was full.
Just a few weeks ago, it was totally empty. Or at least only a damp spot. Ah nature.
Then back to the house and a million tasks, including a dinner made by moi. I was surprisingly efficient (although I didn’t spell either of those two words correctly the first time…I’m tired.). I spent some time dealing with emails and a list of possible pieces for my upcoming solo show in Pittsburgh. Looking forward to that…and this guy, still needing pets.
Never-ending mopey furball. He’s sweet. When he’s not barking his mad little head off.
Oh yeah, I also set fire to a lot of things in science today…
There was a lot of squealing for that.
Well it’s finally time for quilting this beast. It won’t be fast or easy, but it’s fun.
I didn’t get very far…I only had about an hour and a bit. First I had to fight the thread a little bit. As always. Every time, the machine has to be set up slightly differently to work right. It’s a guessing game. Plus this thing is huge, so it has to be manhandled to quilt it. Anyway, I guess you know what I’ll be doing with the next 20 hours of my free time. I do need to get it done though. The next one doesn’t exist on paper yet and it’ll be due sooner than I like…and the one after it is soonish too, and I’ll be on Spring Break for part of it, freezing my ass off in some campsite.
I’m looking forward to that actually.
So I got Figure 1’s bottom half done, and part of the hand that crosses her from Figure 5…
And then I wandered over into Figure 2…
There was some logic to how I did the stitchdown, and I seem to be following that order for the quilting. I should think about quilting all the in-between spaces as I do the outlining…maybe admit now that I will be using the same color? Or not. Decisions.
Right now, the decision is to get my act together and go to work. And be a productive member of society. Or at least get some grading done. That would be good.
*Laurie Anderson, Let X=X
Kathy Nida 