Its been a while, let's catch up
Hi,
Its been a while hasn't it. I miss this place. I've missed being creative! Over the past year, I have channeled most of my creative energy into my graduate studies. While it has made this blog quite a bore, it helped me focus my academic life. I'm here to present some highlights of the past year and declare that I will repopulate this space!
Last fall I made our Halloween costumes for my husband's work party. We were Jack and Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas. I spent far more time crafting his suit than I did creating my dress. But all in all, it was a success. We won first place.
Over Christmas we visited my family in Southern Ontario. This meant we got to spend some time with my adorable niece (who's not afraid to ham it up for the camera):
I spent A LOT of time in the lab after the holidays. Between Christmas and the end of May it was safe to say that if I wasn't at home, I was at the lab!
At some point in March we received my hubbie's corporate Christmas present: a vacuum. But it came with a few accouterments, so I felt the need to dress up with the get-up.
At the end of my lab work I went to Germany for a few weeks. It was one part vacation and one part business meeting. The trip also a million parts of relaxation, as it brought me a new found complacency. While I was away on the trip I secured my next job. Who knows if it was the job or the foreign land that was the source of complacency, but I will always believe that it was wandering Berlin, by myself, late at night, that did it!
Not 24 hours after I landed from my European get away, was I being hooded. My graduation ceremony was in June. While I hadn't yet written my dissertation, it was still an emotional and exciting journey.
In the six weeks following the graduation ceremony, I crafted (as best as one can do under such time and scientific constraints) my dissertation. While it wasn't the most perfect dissertation any will read, it was a completed dissertation!
Since I know that we will be leaving California and all the natural beauty that surrounds it, I have become increasing sentimental about the beauty - and kindness - of our friends here. We've been trying to sneak in a few road trips, to soak up a few more of the highlights before we move on.
Our life will be a little unsettled until we settle and start work at our new jobs later this fall, I'm super excited to harness my creative energy again. Just a few hours after submitting my dissertation to my dissertation committee, I felt the need to start a new project. Rather than pick up one of the many UFOs that I have lying around, I picked up a crochet hook and decided to learn a new craft. Later with a little lesson from a good friend, I was off making granny squares.
Yesterday, I defended my Ph.D. and I bound off a shawl that I knit for an important friend here. The shawl had been on my needles since early March. Simultaneously I finished two projects that mark a major milestone in my life. In all of my academic moves, I don't know if any move has ever felt as bittersweet as moving on from here. I've thoroughly enjoyed myself here, but I also know that I need to move on. I cannot express how excited I am to start crafting, sewing, crocheting and baking this fall. There are so many projects I want to start!
So I will leave you with the notion that I plan on spending more time in this space. It may not happen too frequently between now and early October. But once we're settle in our new digs up north in the Golden Horseshoe, you'll be hearing more from me!
Take care and enjoy the rest of your summer!
Its been a while hasn't it. I miss this place. I've missed being creative! Over the past year, I have channeled most of my creative energy into my graduate studies. While it has made this blog quite a bore, it helped me focus my academic life. I'm here to present some highlights of the past year and declare that I will repopulate this space!
Last fall I made our Halloween costumes for my husband's work party. We were Jack and Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas. I spent far more time crafting his suit than I did creating my dress. But all in all, it was a success. We won first place.
Over Christmas we visited my family in Southern Ontario. This meant we got to spend some time with my adorable niece (who's not afraid to ham it up for the camera):
I spent A LOT of time in the lab after the holidays. Between Christmas and the end of May it was safe to say that if I wasn't at home, I was at the lab!
At the end of my lab work I went to Germany for a few weeks. It was one part vacation and one part business meeting. The trip also a million parts of relaxation, as it brought me a new found complacency. While I was away on the trip I secured my next job. Who knows if it was the job or the foreign land that was the source of complacency, but I will always believe that it was wandering Berlin, by myself, late at night, that did it!
Not 24 hours after I landed from my European get away, was I being hooded. My graduation ceremony was in June. While I hadn't yet written my dissertation, it was still an emotional and exciting journey.
In the six weeks following the graduation ceremony, I crafted (as best as one can do under such time and scientific constraints) my dissertation. While it wasn't the most perfect dissertation any will read, it was a completed dissertation!
Since I know that we will be leaving California and all the natural beauty that surrounds it, I have become increasing sentimental about the beauty - and kindness - of our friends here. We've been trying to sneak in a few road trips, to soak up a few more of the highlights before we move on.
Our life will be a little unsettled until we settle and start work at our new jobs later this fall, I'm super excited to harness my creative energy again. Just a few hours after submitting my dissertation to my dissertation committee, I felt the need to start a new project. Rather than pick up one of the many UFOs that I have lying around, I picked up a crochet hook and decided to learn a new craft. Later with a little lesson from a good friend, I was off making granny squares.
Yesterday, I defended my Ph.D. and I bound off a shawl that I knit for an important friend here. The shawl had been on my needles since early March. Simultaneously I finished two projects that mark a major milestone in my life. In all of my academic moves, I don't know if any move has ever felt as bittersweet as moving on from here. I've thoroughly enjoyed myself here, but I also know that I need to move on. I cannot express how excited I am to start crafting, sewing, crocheting and baking this fall. There are so many projects I want to start!
So I will leave you with the notion that I plan on spending more time in this space. It may not happen too frequently between now and early October. But once we're settle in our new digs up north in the Golden Horseshoe, you'll be hearing more from me!
Take care and enjoy the rest of your summer!
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