4 posts tagged “roseclass”

It's important when choosing a laminating film to consider the comfort of your woman.  This laminating film in particular is a 'truly noble man's choice', as you can see from the satisfied smile of the woman reclining on the couch. 

The first time I saw this, I was understandably confused.  But I guess ignoble laminating film would be a pain to work with.  It's only this A3 size that has it, though.  The regular A4 has a picture of a tiger in a jungle, which, while also slightly mind-boggling, is nowhere near the entertainment level of this one. 

When I had finished taking my picture, I wandered into Tulip class with my camera to see what the all-day class was up to.  Actually, I had seen Kim-teacher carrying a tray of fried rice in there, so I knew what was up.  I started talking to some of the girls in my small pieces of Korean, which always gets them excited.  They laugh and clap for me, "Siobhain-teacher, very good job!!"  I sat down to talk to them, and they quizzed me on what words I knew in Korean.  I knew most of what they asked me - tree, eye, sun, fried rice; except for 'face' which I can't for the life of me remember now.  I got a bowl of rice and ate with them, and took some pictures, which they thought was funny.  They like posing for pictures, and think it's even funnier to look at them afterwards.  I played with editing some of them tonight. 

Here's Emily and Annie, with the usual Asian pose.  Cheese!

Hannah got in the way of the first picture I tried to take of David and Gregory.  She's so sweet, and really smart.  And of course kids missing their front teeth look adorable.





Here's a better shot of the boys, without Hannah.   David is Emily's twin - have I mentioned that we have an amazing amount of twins at my school? Srsly - there are like 6 sets of them, and that's not an exaggeration.  But David and Emily are my favorites I think.
The hearts in the background were entirely coincidental, but I thought they were funny - the kids always like to joke about who loves each other.  It's usually a fair amount of "Siobhain-teacher, Donald-teacher, love!"  or any other combination of two (or three) teachers, depending on how silly the kids are being.  But I really want to caption this picture, "Gregory, David, love?"

Emily took this picture when I was showing her how to use my camera, and I edited it a bit. Probably not the best picture of me or Annie ever taken - we both look a bit scruffy, but I like the way it turned out.  Reminds me! I have to scan those pictures that were taken of me at the Children's Park - the photographer got some interesting shots, though I tried to stay out of his lens as much as I could.  I got some good ones too, come to think of it- I should edit those.  One day.



Lastly, two pictures of Christina, one edited and one not.  I'm not sure which one I like better.  Christina is a sweet little girl, and she always reminds me of xtna, both in looks and attitude.  She's very playful.  Here, she was laughing about one of my responses to her questioning on my and Donald's non-relationship. 

In other news, there's not much here.  I measured my shirt last night, and got 41cm, but when I measured again later, I was only at 39 - but that's okay!! I'm almost done - with the stockinette tunic part anyway!! Soon I can switch needles and do the top part, and then the sleeves.   I can't wait.  I'm thinking of starting another project in the meantime though, just for some instant gratificatin - i can't decide if I wanna try the socks I've been considering for a while or do the presents for julie and bethany that I've been putting off... We'll see.

Now, I need to go plan my open class lesson, since I spent 4 hours napping this evening.  Didn't mean to, and woke up with mogi bites and an allergically-swollen lip, but I guess that's my bad for sleeping with the window open.  Probably should eat some dinner too.  Maybe when I get done with that, I will let myself do some knitting or reading. I'm going to be up for another couple hours anyway, I guess.

I'm very proud of it.  I was a little worried I had accidentally felted it cause I washed it in hot water, but it's fine.  It turned out very nice, despite some interference from Gizmo during the blocking process - I came home from work today and all the pins were dislodged. 

Now what?  I thought about starting the teddy bears, or that hood/cowl, but I think I am going to take a break for a few days and read a book or something.  For one, my right wrist is bothering me.  (So obviously, I'm trading knitting for updating my blog tonight...)  I'm going to wear my brace some more and see if that helps.  It doesn't hurt, really, it just feels... tired.  And tingly as well.  -sigh- I wonder if my generation will have higher instances of carpal tunnel syndrome.  At least it doesnt cut down on my typing speed too much to only use one hand.  Can still type faster than the rest of my family... -smirk-

one thing that did make me happy - my internet connection finally straightened itself out, so my ravelry is back, as are other important sites, like the ones to pay my student loan bills.  I sent some money back to pay them today and am now officially broke until I get paid on the 10th.  I have like, 9 dollars in my checking account and $30 in cash.  Fun fun.  My fault tho. No more yarn for me. Not like I don't have enough anyway.  Need to destash.

for the moment, however, i think i am going to focus on jewelry making.  i am finally getting motivated to design that key chandelier necklace that's been floating round in my head.   Also, this weekend Tim intro'd me to his friend Cara, who is a producer/composer (and Korean pop idol Rain's former world tour concert master. srsly).  We went shopping together, and she found some earrings she really liked, but her ears aren't pierced. They looked pretty simple, so I told her I would make her some, and we're going to Dongdaemun Saturday to get the stuff for that.   Should be fun.  I'll post pics on here when I do them. 

Also happened to meet a man from uzbekistan on the way home on tuesday night on the subway. he didn't speak english, and i don't speak korean really, but we managed some semblance of a conversation.  which ended with him asking for my phone number, -sigh-  Didn't make sense, really. He asked me to get dinner with him, but i had already eaten.  And why would you ask for someone's number when you can barely hold a conversation with them?  The fact that he looked in his 40s and smelled of alcohol didn't win him any points either. 

I've finished two series in the past week, but I have yet to write about one of them.  Last night I couldn't sleep, though, so I scribbled down some thoughts on merlin.  Obviously, spoilers and ranting.  You've been warned. 

*****

My first thoughts were, "This is not as good as Doctor Who/Torchwood."  Not the best comparison, but those are the other BBC shows I am familiar with.  Granted, Merlin is written for a different audience, but even in terms of quality, they aren't the same.  Not that there haven't been some pretty bad eps in the Whoniverse (looking at you, "Cyberwoman" and "Countrycide"), but still.  

Overall, I enjoyed this, but I really hope there's another season 'cause so many things that were left undone bothered me.  Like, ALL OF THE SUB-PLOTLINES. 

-- No closure on Arthur/Merlin.  Obviously I didn't expect full on boy-sex, but some sort of revelation or understanding would have been nice.  Not, "Arthur, don't be a prat I'm gonna go die for you now."

-- What happened to the pairings?  It's like the writers started out with one idea and then completely scrapped that in favor of going along with slashdom.  Then they bring in this half-assed thing with Gwen and Arthur, as if they suddnely decided they needed to do something with some connection to actual Arthurian legend after almost a season of complete disregard.  And Gwen's character is already awkward enough, which has been demonstrated numerous times by her complete inability to interact with any of the guys without making herself look a fool / mistakenly saying something that no one but she will take the wrong way.

-- Uther and Morgana.  um. can you say "electra complex"?  or "just sketchy" might be better.  maybe that's just my "didn't grow up with a father figure" bias, but personally i think their relationship is a little creepy.

-- THE ENTIRE FINALE.  I mean, srsly, WTF?  the writers really made Merlin an ass, and almost as much as much of a prat as Arthur.  First he's all bitchy to Morgana, who probably is freaked cause she's having visions, although her coming outside all half-dressed and hysterical wasn't the best idea.   

then the dragon.  Yeah, Merlin, the dragon has been manipulating you for a while 'cause e has nothing to do but sit in his cave and ship you and his royal prat-ness all day, but rly?  You're pretty dense not to have picked up on it before now, so you have no right to be angry, since it's only been obvious to everyone else since, like, the FIRST EPISODE.

Did I mention Merlin's totally hypocritical, as well as immature? Sure, yeah, do anything to save Arthur.  No, wait, that person can't die!  No, not that one either.  His comment to Gaias about "We haven't done everything we're meant to do,"  (which also came from the DRAGON) - but you can't do anything if you go off and DIE for him.   I understand he's all teenage powerful warlock being a rebel and refusing to accept what people tell him, but come on.  People DIE. It HAPPENS.    This would have been a good time for Merlin to start realizing that you can't save everyone.  Obviously, he's not ready to lose his mentor, and Arthur's not ready to be king.  (Though in my opinion, Hunith is totally expendable.)   But... ugh. 

And even though Nimueh is a complete bitch, it pissed me off how Merlin was so fine with killing her to fulfill HIS END of a bargain, but not with sacrificing any of the people who matter to him.  Sure, Arthur is most important, but not to the point that other people are allowed to die.    Obviously, there's not a lot of emotional sympathy for Nimueh anyway (the villains here are kinda flat), but to me it still smacks of hypocrisy.  Or the inability to look a situation maturely and rationally. 

Despite all this, I'm definitely going to continue to watch, in hopes that the writers grow.  I understand that letting characters die is not something that many are comfortable with/ can pull off believably, but still.  I was disappointed.  Add that to the lack of resolution of ANYTHING in the series, and I was just kind of disgusted afterwards.  Still, I'm glad the series made me think so much.  Perhaps I will write something more formal about it in the future.

*****
Okay, bedtime now. If I don't get distracted by Rav again...