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hurrah for progress
I came home from work early today because I was feeling dizzy and queasy and generally ick, and felt that taking it easy for the afternoon and going if necessary to the doctor in the morning (should be okay, but I'm reserving the possibility in case I feel like crap when I wake up) beat the hell out of taking a whole sick day or more any closer to the deadline.
So I lay down on the couch for a couple of hours and that was absolutely the correct thing to have done. And then when I felt a little more like sitting up, I picked up the knitting again, and it continues to go like lightning. I'm always pleased by the moment when a pattern clicks and makes sense and you know what you're doing, so while you do check back in with the printed page every so often to make sure you're where you think you are, you're mainly flying on your own - instead of, you know, reading "k4, p2, k2, p2, k4" and knitting four and then going "wait, now, what next?" (It's the same with music; when you know a piece and you can sing the whole thing without taking your eyes off the conductor more than a couple of times, how awesome is that? I sometimes catch myself turning the page without having looked at it at all, and wondering how I knew that was where the page turn was.)
I'm at row 24 of the second repeat. Woo-hoo! And now I'm going to bed early.
So I lay down on the couch for a couple of hours and that was absolutely the correct thing to have done. And then when I felt a little more like sitting up, I picked up the knitting again, and it continues to go like lightning. I'm always pleased by the moment when a pattern clicks and makes sense and you know what you're doing, so while you do check back in with the printed page every so often to make sure you're where you think you are, you're mainly flying on your own - instead of, you know, reading "k4, p2, k2, p2, k4" and knitting four and then going "wait, now, what next?" (It's the same with music; when you know a piece and you can sing the whole thing without taking your eyes off the conductor more than a couple of times, how awesome is that? I sometimes catch myself turning the page without having looked at it at all, and wondering how I knew that was where the page turn was.)
I'm at row 24 of the second repeat. Woo-hoo! And now I'm going to bed early.