Thursday Open Thread

[virescence]

Hello, group_xers! It's time again for another open thread. And this time someone put me in charge.

This week my brain is totally dominated by dissertation-writing/editing, so in my complete inability to think about anything else, I've decided to make the subject of this Open Thread: Achievements. What have you achieved lately that you're proud of? What are you working towards achieving, or hope to achieve someday in the future?

(Note: this doesn't just mean big achievements, or only academic ones - anything that you have or plan to achieve, however big or small, once-in-a-lifetime or day-to-day, come tell us about it! And don't feel compelled to stick to the topic if you have something far more interesting or important to share.)

Also note: today's open thread is public.

Comments

[virescence]

Hooray for yarn! What kind did you order?

Oh, writing deadlines, let us commiserate on them. Mine is written, but is going to take so much work to get it into a readable shape... no, I promised I wasn't going to talk about this. Tell me even more about your yarn? *flop*

And I am so sorry about your doctor problems :(

[aceeccentric]

One Sugar'n Cream to practice with, making washcloths, and one Cascade 220 Wool to do other things with (fingerless gloves, first off, if I can swing it). I went for the Strawberry Cream and the charcoal gray colors.

Talk all you want. I know the value of a good rant. :) But if you want to hear more about my yarn you can hear me complain how after thirty minutes of debating whether to buy it I clicked on a TARDIS-esque color only to be informed that it was out of stock.

On the plus side, at least it's not a flu-type thing, so I can breathe and sleep. Hopefully I'll get a diagnosis and a treatment recommendation that isn't something I've already tried and it'll be relatively painless.

[virescence]

Oooooh. Well, I say ooooh... I know nothing about those yarn brands :( Curse you, Atlantic Ocean and... different things on either side of it! (Especially since I had to order yarn from America recently because the brand wasn't available over here...)

.... ohhhhhh, that is painful :( And I'm going to make it even more painful by babbling excitedly about my TARDIS-colour yarn. It is here. Silk and merino wool. Gorgeous colour. I knew it was meant to be when I noticed the colourway was called Midnight. I've made a TARDIS-themed cowl out of it, and I'm planning on matching fingerless gloves from the rest. Fingers crossed for you <3

[aceeccentric]

Ravelry had suggested them for the projects I was eyeing. (Argh. It's too bad it's not easier to get things like that.)

I had trouble picking a lighter or darker blue for the TARDIS project. Depending on the photo I find there's varying ideas for using a brighter or navy-er blue. This is a gorgeous color though. Take pictures! Thanks <3 (Midnight makes me think -- when I was taking a transatlantic flight to England, the only episode of Doctor Who available to watch on the flight was "Midnight." Highly inappropriate for any kind of travel, so of course I watched it. Whoever picked that one had a sense of humor.)

[shiyiya]

I think there have actually been several different TARDIS models in varying shades of blue, so it's not just the pictures that are making it look different.

[aceeccentric]

That's reassuring. I'm never sure with these things if it's just me.

[virescence]

shiyiya is right - there have been lots of different TARDIS models over the history of the show. So... really as long as you're in vaguely the right area of blue-ness, you can go for it.

And oooh, what projects are you eyeing? And... yeah. Midnight is my personal scariest episode - would not want to watch on any kind of transport. Someone has a slightly evil sense of humour!

... also I really need to get on that "need more icons" thing. But have one that's at least Who-related!

[shiyiya]

Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead is worst for me, because I'm ALREADY afraid of the dark and the Vashta Nerada (count the shadows) just make it worse. After I watched it the first time I had to take the trash out at like 11pm. That was fun >_< (yesssss, I smite you annoying html parsing that breaks that emoticon! I smite you with & and ;!)

[aceeccentric]

Washcloths to start out with (with the cotton yarn) and then some fingerless gloves for the winter. Last winter my hands were freezing no matter what our heat was on, so I could actually use some homework/laptop/reading gloves.

The TARDIS-colored yarn I wanted after seeing a TARDIS pattern for a Kindle holder. I don't have a Kindle, but I know someone who does and I thought it'd be a good gift if I can progress that far with my knitting skills in time to mail something in December.

That's a nice one! I need some more icons too.

[shiyiya]

Sugar'n'Cream! That's the cotton yarn, right? I have a ball/skein/wev of that in green/brown/cream variegated somewhere that I used to crochet dishcloths for my mum.

[aceeccentric]

It is. I figured washcloths would be easy to start with and people said cotton would be good to use. I got the red/pink/white ball.