I have been so busy doing stuff I haven’t had time to tell you all about it. As usual, click through to Flickr for bigger photos.
Thursday we had an end-of-summer barbecue at work, which was awesome and crazy, and then that night I went back to Seattle University for an end-of-summer celebration for one of our intern programs. I went to one last year as well, but it was held in a building that didn’t exist on campus when I was a student. This time it was in the ballroom off the dorm residence hall I lived in for two years. It was very strange. They’ve remodeled the lobby — my tuition dollars at work.
The Admin building, where basically all of my classes were held…
The fountain in the quad (which we sidewalk-chalked overnight when we finished the Honors Program)
And the Chapel of St Ignatius at night, which I love…
Friday I went down to
The Center for Wooden Boats, because they had the
Lady Washington (which you all have seen on film as Norrington’s ship, the
Interceptor, in
Pirates of the Caribbean) and the
Hawaiian Chieftain. (The
Lady Washington is in front here.)
On board the
Lady Washington, looking out towards Gasworks Park. These ships are so small!
Saturday & Sunday I spent working on our Back to School drive. Our set-up at the store:
While I was there, I knitted. Unsurprisingly. I’m working on Wendy’s
Cabletini socks in
the yarn I got last week:
Then, Saturday night was roller derby! Which is dangerous:
This is technically a terrible photo, but I love it. The band was the Wages of Sin. LIME GREEN UPRIGHT BASS, BABY. And they are self-described as “Punk rock sea shanties and Appalachian death polka.” How awesome is
that?
The two teams I was rooting for — DLF & Grave Danger — both won. So that basically ruled.
Sunday I came home after work and passed out. I am still not quite recovered. I watched a good deal of television, including finishing off “Blackpool” (awesome!) and half of “My Life in Film” (which I snagged because I wanted more Kris Marshall after Death at a Funeral, and which is also awesome, but in a totally different way. More like “Spaced”.)
I also knitted on Samus’s cable band. I am in the 8th repeat of 11. I can do it!
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August 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
DUDE, the INTERCEPTOR!!!
August 21st, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I know, right? Like, I would be excited about tall ships anyway, but THE INTERCEPTOR!
August 21st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
um. hi!
August 21st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Hello! Welcome back! Or at least online! I did stuff! It ruled!
August 21st, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I love the fact that the upright bass matches the socks you’re working on. *heart*
And Norrington’s ship!!
August 21st, 2007 at 3:28 pm
bellarmine, then? i guess if you also lived in xavier it would have been too weird.
i just heard of a semi-famous person who graduated from su! john juanda. he’s a professional poker player. um. mike is all into poker now, & i read whatever magazines are in the bathroom.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:32 pm
No, Campion. Which was a completely different sort of place to live back then, because there was a parking lot where we could have snowball fights, and now there’s the apartment complex. Also, they’ve improved the whole crossing-the-road procedure with an overpass and an actual *light*. When I was there, it was just a painted crosswalk, so you crossed your fingers and hoped to not get hit.
Poker brings to mind Wil Wheaton for me. My mind is strange.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Wow, your socks look great! I’ll have to check out that pattern for the pretty handdyed yarn I got this week (it was exciting to have someone else dye yarn for me, hee hee!).
Thanks for sharing the pictures, that made me smile today.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Thanks! Wendy has a bunch of nifty toe-up patterns, which is exciting to me as that’s my favorite way to knit socks