Tricote-Machine

Today was the first productive day in a really long time. I have been putting off my paper and hw for forever, but I finally got around to doing it today. That is the good thing about Sunday in france; there is actually nothing else to do but the things you are supposed to. Friday was extremely disappointing. I had finished my scarf in knitting group on wednesday so I had nothing to knit. I made a list of all the places i could go to find yarn and was reallye xcited about checking out the legendary dougerie. BUt then everything was closed because of armistace day. I was imagining like the clouds would burst just as i was walking in and then i would have no excuse but to spend the afternoon there, but then it didn't happen. It worked out for the best because i could kind of scope out where I actually wanted to go, and went back with this girl from my class clara the next day. We went first to this place called the cat'laine which had an incredible amount of really tacky yarn but some truly beautiful things as well. I bought 14 skeins of yarn! she was so patient with my french and even helped me do some of the conversions for my pattern. I bought 6 skeins of this purple blend to use to make the shirley sweater. then i bought 3 skeins of creme silk that were only 5.90 each! I am going to make lace stockings that i have been looking at for a while I think. Then I bought my mom a lot of this like wine, almost hemp colored silk too. The silk yarn smells so good, my whole room smells like silk now, its great. I also bought 3 skeins at the bon marche! of this black bio cotton that is made from non- genetically modified cotton seeds lol. I cast on to make john a pair of socks. I had to start them over so many times but now i think i finally have the gauge right. Its too bad though because i think when they stretch out they will be kind of hole- y, just beause i dont knit very tightly. ANyway, then clara and I went to the drougerie. I am so glad i didnt try to buy yarn there it was so intimidating! you are not supposed to take pictures there it says all over it, but I "kinneared" one because my camera is my phone you cant really tell. 

    I also cancelled my interview with cleanwater this week. While I did it for the right reasons, I am all the sudden really excited about having some freedom and mobility this summer. I know i will still be applying for jobs all the time and looking for places to live, and applying to law school, but I am kind of excited about not like, having to take off work to be able to go up north for a little while. I think i was a lot more depressed about not having a summer to look forward to than i thought. i mean starting in the fall at a shitty job seems fine, but having to miss like long weekends at the lake, or going camping, for a job that i hate seems a lot worse.

   That said, I have a tacky new hobby i think. Or at least I want to, and john says hell do it with me. You have to make a stamp, and then you look up on this website places where these secret boxes are and they have like scavenger hunt directions to get them. So then you follow them, find the box, and stamp it with your stamp. I think the part of it I want to do most is make the stamp, but i cant think of how I want our stamp to be...

   I talked to this girl who is becoming my friend in my knitting group about it and she says she has wanted to do it too, but that its too hard to come up with a stamp she has been thinking about it for like months. I think I am going to go to the embassy with her to vouch that she is not married, because she and her boyfriend are getting pacsed and she doesn't want to have the person shes pacsing vouch that she is not married, or maybe its not allowed or something.  Anyway, here is the kinneared photo of the drougerie: