in york

I just arrived in York Thursday morning, and I am loving it here so far. I've started exploring the city and I cannot believe how much history resides here. I live in the dorms here, and it's been nice because the dorms are so centrally located to everything. The University is right next to downtown so I can walk everywhere.
This is my room here.

And this is the view out my window.

Tomorrow, we are taking a trip to Whitby, and then on Monday we start classes. So far, it's been amazing here.

my first attempt to felt

Over Christmas break, I tried out a knitting pattern for slippers. They are felted slippers, and having never felted before, I thought I might as well give it a try while I had a top-loading washing machine. I was a little wary while knitting and when I put them in the wash. They looked like this:
But after putting them in, and letting the wool do its thing, they turned out like this:So all in all, I'm hoping to felt more things in the future. Over interim, I made a second pair, but they didn't turn out quite as well. Now I need to figure out what went wrong the second time. I meant to post this a long time ago and just never put pictures on my computer.

is Andrea Bocelli singing Jingle Bells?

This year, I stayed in Grand Rapids for Thanksgiving. Meredith and Jennifer hung around, too, so we out-of-staters decided to cook our own dinner. Andrew and Amy came up from Indiana, and we had ourselves a merry little feast. The turkey took two hours too long to cook, but otherwise, there were no food crises. Like all good Baileys, we interspersed episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia throughout the whole day. And of course, we busted out Mannheim Steamroller and Home Alone. All good things.

new hair

I cut off 11-12 inches of hair this afternoon. I've been wanting to for awhile, now. It's so nice to have short hair again.

a joke

An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train in Scotland. The astronomer looks out of the window, sees a black sheep standing in a field, and remarks, "How odd. Scottish sheep are black." "No, no, no!" says the physicist. "Only some Scottish sheep are black." The mathematician rolls his eyes at his companions' muddled thinking and says, "In Scotland, there is at least one sheep, at least one side of which looks black."

For more hilarious jokes of this kidney, check out Wikipedia's page on math jokes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke.

for the love of ven diagrams

In case you ever confuse your mythical creatures http://www.flickr.com/photos/preshaa/3847027500/sizes/l/.

I am not Liz Lemon

During the summer between my sophomore and junior year of high school, I found some old sheets cut up into squares at my grammy's house. My aunt had initially planned something for them and never put it together. I started sewing the squares together that summer, and now, four summers later, I finished the quilt. It's not perfect by any means, but it's done. Unlike Liz Lemon, I finish the quilts that I start in the summer. Even if it is four summers later.