day sixteen: rainy and chilly and not a skein of yarn to save my life

people, let me advise you of one thing that I have (quickly) learned while in london: autumn = me-fun skirts-strappy shoes+sensible shoes that still pinch+jeans+sweater+sweater coat+scarf. yes, it seems the death of everything that I knew of summer has finally, finally set in for me. even last week I was trying to deny this unfair fate, walking about in flip flops and wearing cute skirts. no more peeps...the rain is fairly frequent, though not obnoxiously heavy, which means that it is not yet time for the galoshes, and the wind is brr cold. if only the leaves would turn...then I might be a bit happier with the onset/onslaught of autumn.

as is typical with autumn (at least for the vast majority of my life), I'm spending most of my time in the library. this, however, is interspersed with time at my flat...yay! the place is yet a home to me, as those things were not allowed to be packed in my bags over here, but I'm doing my best to make it so. mind you, my bed is polyesteriffic (the cheapest bedding that I could find) and I'm dead set on folding 97 origami cranes to display about my room and serve as brights spots of color. (three have already been given away, hence the odd number.) I'm dead set on getting some sort of knitting when not reading...however, london doesn't seem to know what yarn is. at least, decent yarn at the very least. my friend kate and I went all of the way out to zone four (way out there) to the only craft store that we could track down via the internet. their sad, pathetic selection forces me to turn to ebay. who would have thought that yarn would have been so sparse in this city?

anyway, that's the latest on things here. a chilly, sometimes wet, disgruntled knitter/grad student. but otherwise, things are good. and now, back to the reading...

loves to all.

ps happy 13th birthday to raven!