I worked for the first time in two weeks today!

I wish it was that exciting. I use my time for studying; mostly the kids get to work pretty quickly. The blocks are really long, so there's a lot of uninterrupted time for me, but it seems that the kids get antsy. Today I read about the elegiac poets and the birth of Hercules from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

I spent this weekend at my Dad's, my brother Jon was there too. His lab just got published for their Cranberry work and he got the photo credit. We went to see MirrorMask, the new Neil Gaiman movie. I'm not ready to call it a classic, but it's better than any other movie I've seen lately. It was visually interesting and fun to watch.

On to yarn: I've started Ken's hat. It's in green and whitish Lopi; fair-isle. Mom's scarf and hat are finished, but I'm too lazy to take a picture. I've also started Aimee's shrug in purple Cascade 220. I'm going to work a sparkly thread along the lozenge lace pattern on the back. She's going to be so cute! Speaking of which:

Aimee just got featured in an art show about Chinese girls and their American fathers. The show was in Beijing and apparantly she was a hit. She's really the prettiest person I know, and I'm not just saying it. When we were on our walk tonight, Jamie said thoughtfully: "She really is a lot cooler than us, she just doesn't know it yet" He's definately right, poor girl's been subsumed into a family of dorks.