Babbles of a Procrastinating Grad Student

Well shit. 

You know you've been treating yourself poorly when you go for a 20 minute bike ride, and spend the next hour with an achy breath, and a weird weeze in your lungs for the rest of the evening. 

I'm going to avoid riding my bike to work until it's less painful to ride.  But I'm going to try to keep riding, even if I have to reduce it a bit for the next while.

In knitty news, I managed to knit up 2 toques this weekend.  Didn't mean to do the second one - I finished up the hat I started a few days ago, and since I freed up the needles, I thought I'd cast on and putter away at the second one.  NOPE, it basically just fell off my needles today.  I wasn't supposed to have a day at home - I was supposed to be doing paperwork today.  But I really needed another day off, so instead I spent most of the day knitting and reading Laocoon's Children: The Fugitive from Azkaban.  Mostly I was looking for a specific scene, but got sucked into it.  Which is hilarious because I haven't read any of the other parts since they came out 15+ years ago.  The whole Stealing Harry series is so well done though, and Sam is rewriting the whole thing into a modern day original piece and I'm so stoked for that.  I hope he publishes it because I don't care what I have to do, I will be buying the thing. 

But for now, I suppose I need to reread the whole thing from the start.  Darn.