Cooking took place last night chez fibermom.
I made a nice little curry with cous cous, pleased that I would actually be home at dinner time. In fact, I had checked to make sure and it seemed that everyone in the family had the evening off, so I figured we could actually have dinner together.
The boys called me around 7:00 to say that they were climbing and would I save them some dinner.
So I just grabbed a bowlful for myself.
Yum.
Knitting also took place. This is Erin, from Starmore’s Celtic Collection. It has a long and complex history.
Right now, I am working on the sleeves. For reasons that seemed compelling at the time, I am working the sleeves backwards. Or rather, I am working them from the top down, as Erin’s sleeves are supposed to be worked, but I switched to a set-in sleeve, and the pattern from which I filched the shaping is written from the wrist up.
I am therefore following the shaping directions backwards. I am doing both sleeves at once, so that they will match, and I have finished the sleeve cap and started on the colorwork.
I did this while watching Scotland, PA, with the boys. I thought it was very well done. I don’t know what it would be like to watch this movie if you were not familiar with Macbeth, but fortunately we all are. We were therefore watching the movie with the play going on in our heads, adding to the sense of the movie.
The other thing I did yesterday (well, I went to the gym and I worked, but I mean the different thing) was to apply for some jobs. I’ll let you know if anything exciting happens there, but I just wanted to say that when a person spends a lot of time going through a lengthy online application, answering questions which are only barely relevant to the position in question, she should not then get an email saying that her application will be complete as soon as she submits her resume, transcripts, license, and three letters of reference. If you have to do that, then that ought to be the first step.
Thanks for the info.
When they teach keyboarding, do they teach the difference between quote marks, primes and double primes? And hyphens, n-dashes and m-dashes? Among other things.
I am constantly amazed at the lack of understanding of punctuation displayed by most people. I had somebody hand write a note to me where she WROTE two hyphens instead of an m-dash, presumably because her hand, like a typewriter was unable to write an m-dash!
At least she realized that there IS such a thing as an m-dash and knew where to use it.
@lostarts –
I don’t know how much detail they go into in those classes; I just know that my kids have had to take keyboarding three times. I figured the schools were running out of ideas for what the kids could do in the computer lab.
Hear, hear! on the job application thing.
Also your curry looks very nice. You present your food so well!