Has it been a week???

If I thought LAST week was hell....omg.....this past week has been killer!!! By Wednesday, I was very nearly at the end of my rope, and ready to pack it all in. Thankfully, I was able to make some good contacts with 4th year students who got me calmed down, and explained that they had been through the same excruciating work load, and choking stress. I spent most of Wednesday in tears, and a good part of Thursday too...but the message I have clung to is that second semester will be better, and that I just need to duck and run to get through the end of this semester. Everyone has promised me that I will not fail out.

I have nothing quilty to share - - I have been writing essays. I have two to hand in this week, one the week after, and for the week of the 23rd? Two class presentations and a taped interview, transcript, and analysis. December...bah...just six essays within the first ten days of the month.

Homework Break!

A better week - - not nearly as intense, but still, busy!

I'm soooo tired! I've been staying up waaaaaaay too late, reading a book I got this week: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill which is published as "Someone Knows My Name" in the USA, Australia and New Zealand.

Because I've been such a bad girl, I'm sitting on my bed surrounded by textbooks, and one small cat. No sewing for me this week!

....took the weekend off

This week was intense!!! An essay, a class presentation, and two exams. When I caught my breath, and took a look at this week's assigned reading - - all 318 pages of boring text book stuff - - I decided to go on strike.

I spent the better part of today sewing. I put a border on this:

I'm going to add another wider, pieced border to it.

And I finished all the courthouse steps blocks for this:

The pattern called for 45 courthouse blocks, and now I have to sew the star blocks. 44 to go!

And then I sewed the binding down on this:

It still needs the binding to be handstitched to the back, but it's a step closer to being done.

Okay - I guess I could get a bit of reading done now.

I just had to sew a few seams....

Remember that Courthouse Stars workshop I went to way back in September? Until today...I only had ONE block complete!!! Now I have ELEVEN! okay...so only about another 110 or so to go.

Miss me???

Ya - - I'm missing blogs and blogging....not to mention quilting!

It's going to be a few more weeks before I begin to see a glimmer at the end of the tunnel too. Next week I have two exams, a presentation to give, and an essay outline to hand in - - oh yeah, and the regular couple hundred pages of reading to do.

EVERY body at school is sick. There's a real icky flu thing running rampant. So far, I'm infection free...I have me some kick ass kinda immunity!!!..but even the profs have been sick.

Itty Bitty News

Good ole Itty Bitty...he puts up with a lot having ME for a mother. Thankfully, he has my wicked sense of humour, so he gives as good as he gets.

I took him to a lecture this morning, which was two hours of H-E-double hockey sticks!! sooooo boring......... ugh!

I introduced him all around, and I'm sure he'll not forget the experience soon. He got to put some faces to all the characters that I talk about every day.

So here's some recent conversations with Itty Bitty...

(Scene: me, waking up from a 2 hour nap)
ITTY BITTY: Wow, that was some kind of nap you had
ME: Yeah, cool eh? Hey, how come you never nap? Naps seriously RAWK!!!!!
ITTY BITTY: Carpe diem, mom. Sieze the day.

(scene: in the car, me singing along to Lynyrd Skynyrd at the top of my lungs)
ME: Now they call you Prince Charming!!! can't speak a word when you're full of 'ludes!!! ...huh, you don't even know what 'ludes are, do you?
ITTY BITTY: Quaaludes.
ME: Excuse me? I think I just told you that YOU DON'T KNOW!!!!!
ITTY BITTY: Fine....what's a lude, mom?
ME: (singing again) Ooooh that smell !!! Can't you smell that smell??? Ooooh that smell!!! The smell of death surrounds you!!!

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE my BSW cohorts???

Social work students are amazing people. Every day I learn more about how wonderful human beings can be, as evidenced by the people I sit in class with everyday. I LOVE SCHOOL!!!! Can I stay in 3rd year forever?!?!?!

OH! And the candy apples were a huge hit today. They were snapped up immediately, and I've been mandated to bring in another batch next Thursday for another bake sale.