It’s funny how quickly your life can change. I got into grad school, I’m attending full-time, and my life is a happy round of papers and presentations and research. It seems as if it happened very quickly. Once I realized that the class schedule wouldn’t allow me to work full-time, I quit my job, agreed to stay on part-time for a few months, and now I’m mostly a student. I’ve been afraid of lay-offs for the past few years, and I pared my lifestyle to the bare bone. So I can afford to live on a shoe string for a couple of years, and things are going pretty well (knock wood.)
And it’s a blast. I love my classes. I love the work that I’m doing. I’m frequently sleep deprived and addled and drag around like a zombie (the slow kind.) But this is so good. SO good!
A lot of my friends wonder how I could give up graphic design. That’s easy: I haven’t. I don’t think you ever stop being a designer. I’ve been playing with fabric and fiber and paints and pencils for as long as I can remember. So that’s never really going anywhere. Right now, though, I’m in between careers and it is a little weird. I still consider myself a graphic designer. But I’m also starting to think of myself as a mental health practitioner. I think that’s a good thing.
At any rate, I know that I need to update patterns for you guys. I haven’t had time to go on Ravelry, or to fix the broken pattern links there. Many apologies! I’ll try to do that this weekend. I’m thinking about some new stuff, too. Seems that when I’m using one side of my brain too much, the other side starts to fire itself up to compete for time. Maybe I’ll have to do some research, and see why that is. And to keep myself busy, I’ve begun what feels like the beginning of an epic sock binge, while I sit in lectures. Now how do you like that?
I also bought a laptop for school (MacBook, baby!) So maybe portable blogging just got easier? We’ll see.
Mad Love,
G.
