Chrissy's Photo A Day

2-19-15

I hosted another knit night tonight, and even lit a fire in the fireplace. This is my friend, drunken waffle, figuring out how to cast on. I taught a student from Saudi Arabia to crochet.

2-16-15

Class Tonight

We did the Mystery Tube activity.

2-14-15

Valentine's Day

Dan I Went To Country's Barbecue For a Down-Home Dinner.

2-12-15

Dan finally got the purchase order from Texas and shipped three pallets of my kits. What an order!

2-10-15

This Is Not a Hat.

It Is a Hyperbolic Space.

2-9-15

Class Tonight.

Took This Video Of My Students Working on the Little Circuit

2-8-15

Square Is Making Beer Again, And It Is Taking up the Fridge.

2-7-15

After a week of tapering, Dan and I drove up to the lake and went on a 3 mile hike. It was so beautiful.

2-2-15

Class tonight- roller coaster physics and the 5E Learning Cycle. I loved it.

1-31-15

Sock progress.

This is the strangest sock recipe... but it looks pretty good on my ankles.

Today I worked on student lab schedules, graded homework, went shopping, got some more wool roving, talked with Aza, and felt perfectly perfect.

I have no pictures from yesterday, but yesterday I gave a workshop in Montgomery for 42 teachers and it went really really well. I felt great and the teachers all seemed engaged and seemed to learn a lot.

1-28-15

Truth be told, I've had a rough month. I started tapering on January 9th again (off the medication I've been on since 2002 for facial pain) and the taper is very rough on me. It makes me very anxious and brings on migraines and a return of face pain. But, I'm going to get off this medication. I've been tapering since May bit by bit, and this month was particularly hard. I'm very thankful for knitting and spinning though... it's my life saver. It calms me down and keeps my hands occupied when I'm feeling particularly bad, which is frequent.

Today I decided to treat myself and I got a manicure.

1-26-15

Monday night class... we did Milk o Motion and a bunch of other demos and it was fun. I'm trying to do activities in class each week this semester and give my students lots of activity ideas along the way. We are following the book Science Matters, by Trefil and Hazen, and I'm trying to design activities that match each chapter each week.

1-25-15

More yarn eye-candy.

I'm thinking this is pretty addicting.

1-24-15

I made this. Double ply yarn. Look how awesome it is!

1-23-15

This is what I spun. I used food coloring on the raw wool roving to make two different color ways. Next, I plan to ply them together.

1-21-15

I'm spinning.

First I crocheted, then knitted, and now the yarn thing has graduated to spinning.

1-19-15

Selma, Alabama

Home of the Civil Rights Movement

On the Alabama River

Where Martin Luther King led the march over the bridge to Montgomery to demand fair voting laws.

Today was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and we spent the day in Selma.

While there, we actually saw the movie, Selma.

It was a very moving day, to say the least.

1-17-15

This is a salad my mom made with tortilla chips, avocado, and an avocado dressing. We had a really good meatloaf wrapped in bacon, southern green beans and this awesome salad.

1-16-15

Tonight we went to Sundilla (a local concert) to see the group, Brother Sun. It was so awesome! I knitted and drank chamomile tea while we listened to awesome music. It was a night on the town and it felt good to feel good and be out in the community.