I kind of abandoned the blog. I'm sorry. Man, lets see, last time I posted I was still living in Roch, and working on my thesis. I am pleased to say that I finally finished that fucker. It was sketchy for a while there, my first reader and I had some pretty serious disagreements, but I was rescued by the program director, and my awesome second reader, and it all got done.
I am terribly proud of it, and I think it will be useful to the Eastman House. I will put a pdf of it up somewhere. Basically, I catalogued 25 years worth of Kodak ads from the collection, and categorised them into seven sections. It included an analysis of the themes, and time periods. It ended up being 45 pages of writing, and 200+ pages of appendix - the data from all the ads.



Here it is all bound and pretty and official, when I graduated a few weeks ago.



Here`s me and my awesome Rochester roomie, D`Arcy all hooded and gowned, at the graduation ceremony. It`s all over. I think it was worth it.



You can just call me Sarah Fay, MA.

Now I`m looking for a job, but it`s super slow going. I`m working at a computer store in the meantime, and not totally hating it.
I`ve been knitting, but it`s been slow, as I`ve got to be honest, lots of my knitting time is being swallowed by my new hobby: World of Warcraft. I think they put subliminal messaging in the game to make you addicted.

and a cat toy:


and a beret:


and a sweater:


and I`m now in the midst of Christmas knitting.

I`ll try to post more regularly... I hope.

Hello again. School and life are hard, and so I haven't been blogging. I'm between second and third drafts of my thesis right now-- it's currently with my advisor, and I'm waiting to hear back from her.
I'm moving back to Toronto for good July 31st and will be starting that terrible thing that all recent graduates must do: The job search. With the shitty economy, and the saturation of Torontonians in my program I might have to settle until I can find something good. Life sucks.

Anyways, here's a photo dump of life in between thesis drafts.



Cheryl and I visited the ROM a few weeks ago. Post-secondary students are free on Tuesdays, and free was within my budget!





Then I did a photoshoot of Cheryl and her pup in Allen Gardens.



Then the G20 came to our city and turned it into an abandoned police state. Cheryl and I walked around all day during the summit and did not run into any trouble, but we were lucky.



I finished two sweaters - The Bellevue Cardigan

and my bunny sweater: They've got them Hoppy Legs and Twitchy Little Noses



Which I worked on for a YEAR -- well I procrastinated on it for a year, anyways.

Then I went back to Rochester, where I polished off my 2nd draft in a major heatwave, and then my uncle, aunt and cousins came to visit me.



We did all the Rochester attractions.



Eastman House



High Falls



The Erie Canal
and a bunch of other things.

Oh, and it's summer, and my bunny is very hot. Or he was. Now he's just
NAKED





Poor boy.

I'm sorry to say that posting will continue to be sporadic until the end of August-- that's when my final draft is due.

First draft due June 4th... Must have to editor (ie my sister) June 1st.
Panicpanicpanicpanicpanic.



kitty.

Everyone survived the thesis presentations. I got (slightly) ripped apart by the faculty, but was expecting it, so I wasn't shocked or anything. As soon as the presentations were over, we fled to the pub:



I may have followed the pub up by going to a party at my classmates house and drinking many gin and tonics, but I think i deserved it.

Then on Sunday we had fake graduation:



Basically, we've finished the program, EXCEPT writing the theses, and so the Eastman House wanted to throw us a party before we all fled away from Rochester back home. It was fun. The parents came down. So did Cheryl, but she came down a few days early, to hang out.



Class photo.


Now it's nose to the grindstone, trying to get this freaking thesis done. There's nothing BUT thesis work to do for the next month. Yay me.

In slightly better news, I'm heading home next weekend for the frolic! Yay! I'll be working in the Sheep's booth, as per usual, and am looking SO FORWARD to it.

I've noticed a trend in my 365 photos lately. Tired eyes. School is hard.

So. It's April. April means lots of nice things. Spring, Easter, Doctor Who. But unfortunately, in my world it means OMFG THESIS PRESENTATIONS ARE TWO WEEKS AWAY!

Observe this awesome comic which I stole from my friend Tasha, who stole it from somewhere else. It sums up my life right now.

Back from New York! and OMG, what an awesome time I had!

This video is amazing! I'm impressed with the detail, and especially the lighting! it's so like the originals.

A long time ago I knit this hat for Dave. He requested an alpaca hat with colourwork, and this was what I came up with. A while later I knit another one for the shop.

I love this shawl.