Well, in case you haven’t heard, Johnny Carson died yesterday. I think he was the best Tonight Show host there was or will be…that’s who I’ll always associate with the TS. It’s nice to see the retrospective stuff they’ve had up on the networks…boy, people must have been scrambling to get it ready so quickly. Although they said he’d been very sick for a while so maybe it was just a matter of when, rather than if. Although I have to admit…I thought he died a lot earlier, I guess since he was very private after he retired. I didn’t know he was still around. Ah well. We’ll miss you, Johnny.
In happier news, JK Rowling had her baby (a girl) last night, so perhaps now that she’s no longer a) writing book 6 and b) pregnant we can get book 7 that much quicker. Ah well. Probably not, since they’ll want to milk this year for all they can get… a book AND a movie, wow. There will be countdowns galore, just you wait.
The high school drama alumni performance went well, I think.

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This is mainly to promote the ever-so-quick layout change over at aspire II. No, it does not feature Legolas, Orlando, or anything Harry Potter related. It has one (one!) picture of a cougar. I love my mascot. This layout probably has the fastest turnaround from idea-design-production-upload of any that I’ve done. Yay simple. I hope you like it. Comment, damn you! I know you’re out there!
Today is the first orgo II class, in case you didn’t read about it yesterday. But it seems like the day is going by so slowly, even with the layout change. And one of these days I’ll have to get around to making that Phantom layout for this ol’ site. Perhaps once this sesquicentennial high school debacle is over. Not that it isn’t fun. it’s just difficult to coordinate so many people, most of whom haven’t been on stage in years, unless you count crossing the graduation stage. Right. Which I didn’t actually do, since our graduation essentially took place in the gym and we walked up on risers. Ahh, engineering. What was I thinking?
and FYI: I have pictures of me and the hat, but no way to get them from the digital camera to a computer. Tomorrow perhaps. Ooooh, I can just hear the gasps of anticipation. Right.

so I’ve finally managed to knit myself a hat. The long weekend helped 😉 it looks rather fun if I do say so myself, though you can definitely tell I did it without stitch markers. And I have to say, the pattern was very easy, so I’m glad I did it. I hope I have enough yarn to make a matching scarf. And I only went to one knitting group, the rest I learned on my own. So you too can do it!
Hopefully tomorrow I will have a picture, if a) I remember to bring the hat to work and b) my coworker, who has graciously offered his digital camera, remembers to bring said camera to work.
Tomorrow Organic Chemistry II starts. I’m not looking forward to this, but I keep telling myself it’s for a greater good. I guess we’ll see. The saturday lab class is gonna kill me. Who thought class at 8 am was a good idea? Sigh. I made it through four years of college with nothing earlier than a 9 am class and now that I’m not ‘in school’ anymore I have to take one…on saturdays. ugh.
Ah well. Better get going soon, got the first of two dress rehearsals coming up tonight before the production on Friday…
brr. stay warm.