Sickness = Knitting Productivity

I am sick. I caught one of those nagging colds. It's mostly annoying from the perspective that I am trying to study and when I try to read I get a headache. Thanks to my sister I am surrounded by everything a person needs when they have a cold: Tylenol, OJ and Ginger Ale, chicken noodle soup and lots of kleenex.

Happily for my knitting, some of it will start fulfilling its destiny since knitting doesn't seem to worsen the sinus headache. I finished a present for next winter:

It's been awhile since I finished anything so the feeling was good. I can't post the pattern because it's from a WW2 knitting pamphlet, the wool is LionBrand Fishermen's Wool, which I personally really like because it felts really well. They are actually the only thing I have every felted and it was purely by accident, my fiance wanted to wash the mittens and he put them in the dryer and lo and behold, they were felted. The result was better than the original product because they were even warmer so he felted the second pair I made him. If anyone wanted the pattern I could email it to them.

Following this bout of sickness I may have some more finished projects to post soon! Then I'll get back to studying...

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The last 2.5 weeks have been incredibly busy; very little by way of knitting or studying actually happened. Separation anxiety from my knitting settled in after 3 days, oddly enough I don't get separation anxiety from my textbooks though. To relieve this I did what always works: I daydreamed about owning sheep (I think just one, but maybe two. I wasn't sure if it would be sheeps since that sounds funny so I left it ambigius). See, I have big dreams for these sheep, I would pet them and brush their hair until they had nice luxurious wool and then I would shear them and spin the wool and knit lovely things.

Just a few minor problems exist with this plan. I have no where to put a sheep, much less sheeps. I don't know what they eat or drink (?water...or do they need variety?) or if they need to be walked (since I have no backyard maybe they would need to be walked. But how would I get a leash on it?) or actually how to shear one. Can I just chase it around with my fiancee's head shaver thing getting little strips at a time? Would it be safe on the leash if I had a shaver in my hand?

I also don't know how to spin.

I feel like these are all relatively minor problems I could overcome.

These are the things I think about when I'm on call and I'm hitting the refresh button for the thirtieth time waiting for bloodwork to magically appear. Hilariously, many members of the public have recently expressed shock at the resident duty hour discussion going on right now (mostly on facebook but sometimes on CBC). It seems weird to me when people don't know that we work 26hour shifts (or longer on the more demanding specialties, no idea how these residents do it for 5 years....they actually deserve medals in my opinion). At least I can go home and dream of sheep.

Uh oh

I did not bring enough knitting to academic day and it's only 10am. Two more inches and I need to switch colours, but I forgot to bring my contrasting colour. Maybe I can find string somewhere...

On the plus side, I just learned what a "K hole" is. Ketamine, a potential drug of abuse, can produce a catatonic state that is also known as a "K hole." Medicine never ceases to interest me.