Today I worked 10 - 5 and didn't accomplish much else. It's 8 o clock and I feel like going to bed. It's amazing how standing around, selling shoes and sipping coffee can tire you out!

I'm not allowed to be tired for the rest of the week! Lots to do! Assignment corrections, thesis, PhD application, in that order. First thing tomorrow I go to school and correct! Then I need to start trolling for references... I would assume my supervisor would recommend me but number 2 will be a shot in the dark; I have some ideas though. Then I have to get the theoretical portion of my thesis banged out and being reviewed by the end of the week (ideally).

I had a mini business meeting with my sis and her boyfriend, who are officially undeadclothingco's only staff. And they're volunteers! I'm eager to see another version of the logo and improvements to the website. I'd like to have some of my never wallets up on etsy in January. January 2008! Undeadclothingco's officialy buniess unveiling! Party time. Seriously, I'd like to have a party about it.

Apart from that, hm. Knitting circle thursday, I presume. Maybe some 90s dancing thursday night... it's been a while. Hm. Yeah. Boringest post ever.

I've been correcting papers all day and I'm still only halfway through my pile. How frustrating to write helpful and thoughtful comments on the papers when I know more than half of them won't read them anyway. *sigh*

Slippers are essentially done, but I'm looking for a nice pattern for a little crocheted rosebud to jazz them up. I see a lot of crocheted "roses" and "rosettes", but they're largely messy and/or too big. I'm going to try and freestyle it. Then they're done, and I've got to get cracking on the mittens!

If I get through all the assignments today, I'm letting myself play Halo2 all night. It's a deal.

Tuesday I love the slipper pattern, Thursday I hate it.

No, I don't hate it. I'm just annoyed at having had to restart the sides portion of the slippers 10 times. My crocheting-in-the-round is problematic... I increase when I join, making for a strange spike on one side. My mission at craft circle tonight is to determine what I'm doing wrong!

But all this crafting goodness has to come after an afternoon of dull and annoying (how can something be simultaneously dull and annoying? Doesn't 'dull' imply boring and 'annoying' imply active frustration) meeting with the prof I'm TAing with. We have to meet to get a how-to on the new version of WebCT (which I could probably figure out for myself) and then practice grading assignments until all the TAs are consistent. Note the word UNTIL. I hope to be out of that meeting and in a decent mood by 7.

Other news; saw Resident Evil: Extinction last night. How nice to leave a theatre satisfied! That movie is great, a pleasant surprise after R.E.2 blew so hard. In addition to an enjoyable evening, the movie got me thinking excitedly about my thesis again, which is a relief. I'd been lacking inspiration as of late.

Today I'm conducting a workshop for the class I'm T.A.ing; how to do their weekly assignments. It's not so bad, I offered to do the workshop because I was frustrated at how poorly done the assignments were last year. Each paper is a piddly mark out of 5 (which pissed me off), and having to give the majority 2/5 is downright brutal. So, from 2:30 to 4:30 I have to talk to them and they have to listen to me. Who do you feel sorry for?

Apart from this gaping wound in my day, I'm obsessed with my mom's slippers I'm crocheting. The pattern is AWESOME; such good-looking, well-shaped slippers... not like those terrible shapeless ones you see at the Salvation Army all the time. I'd like to add a crocheted rosebud to the toes! Note to self; scour the web for a crochet rosebud pattern

What else, what else. Nothing. Slippers. Thesis.