What's Normal Anymore

Normally I would be calling home so that I could talk to all of my dear ones. But though I talk to the girls each night... though I find out what's happening at home somehow it seems strange to not talk to the person I thought of as my best friend. Once upon a time he would have cared how my day was going... He would have wanted to hear about the testing that I'm slowly getting through... now there is just an emptiness where he used to be. So I tell you how it went instead. - - It was tough. A long day with incompleted work. I never passed in any of my skeins. They did not get finished in time. This is not as bad as it sounds. I love the instructor... She's awesome and so calm. She put our minds at ease right away. That is not to say that she is not tough. You only have to look at the questions she gave us to see that. But I think she will be fair in her marking. My first two questions were novelty yarns.. One with color and one with texture. For my color yarn I chose to make a cabled yarn from silk hankies. Love that and I've done it many times. I wet finished it but by the end of the day it still wasn't dry enough to complete the calculations for Bradford count. I will finish that today and pass it in. The second yarn with texture was a Bucle yarn which took forever and since a large part of it was mohair it too was still too wet at the end of the day to pass in. I have discovered that my instructor has never gotten more than two ply yarns for those questions. I never do anything by halves. A four ply yarn and a three ply yarn ate up my time like you wouldn't believe. I found that suddenly it was 3 p.m. And I still had two skeins left to spin and only an hour left. I panicked! I started work right away on the 5 yd skein on the low whorl spindle. It is about half finished. I will finish that today. I am going in at 8 a.m. This morning to see if I can catch up, but I was so tired last night I didn't even want to go to the fashion show. Last evening, which has always been an highlight of Fibre Week. - - So what's ahead? There will be more skeins added today to the roster and I am hoping that today will go better. I hope so. I'll be glad when I'm finished. I more thing done on my way to certification. The social activities for the most part are over... at least the formal ones are. I think there is a barbecue/party on Wednesday night, but other than that it is all work from here on in. Through it all I feel like I'm out of step with it all. How many people go around with a smile on their face when the whole time they feel like it is painted on. I meet other people as I walk around campus and wonder. Perhaps happiness is all just one big sham. - - on that note I will take my caustic and vinigary remarks away from this forum! Perhaps my new nickname should be vinigar.