Rambling about Spinning and Life

So I have been working on spinning, I recently bought two french support spindles and I love them.  They are taking some getting used to but they create such a poofy yarn.  I still like drop spindles though.  Tour De Fleece is going pretty good, I took a week off because I didn't really have anything I wanted to spin, but I bought a roving and a phat fiber sampler box and now I am working on those.  I also have a fiber club shipment in the mail and a custom order so I am excited for those to come in.

Its amazing how much our taste change as we grow older.  When I was younger I hated avocados and mushrooms.  Now I love them.  I also used to hate milk except on cereal or with chocolate, but tonight I had a craving just for milk, and found that I liked it.

Speaking of milk I recently bought some goat milk soap and I love it.  It just makes my skin feel softer then any store bought that I have tried.  Plus its nice to know that it doesn't have all those unneeded chemicals.   While looking around on the internet I found they have beer soap, a part of me wants to try and  another part of me is like "beer.. bleh."

Getting ready for school to start and I am pretty excited and nervous.  I am excited because I get to see my friends again after the long summer, and I am nervous for several reasons.  One I will probably start working in the honor's office which I have no clue how that will turn out.  It should be a pretty easy job, and I need a job to keep me grounded since the last two years I have had too much free time, which makes me lazy and unproductive.  Two, my roommate of two years and one of my best friends at college is transferring to West Virginia   That is a long long long ways from where I am, and I am going to miss her dreadfully.  Plus we started out as two strangers thrust together in a small dorm bedroom, with a loud long winded toilet and equally loud suite mates and we quickly turned into close friends during those freshmen semesters and continued into our sophomore years when we weren't sharing a bedroom only a bathroom and a living room.  I am going to miss our late night heart to heart talks when we should be sleeping, our procrastination parties and crazy dance parties.  While I know that we will continue to be friends it also scares me because you are the first of my close friends to move away, and I know that as I get closer to graduation more and more of my friends will be moving away to get their start in their careers.    I wish I could just pause all real life obligations and we could all just get together and have nonstop fun like we did for the Snow Week.    That week was seriously the most fun I have had a college and that is saying something.  I know that is impossible and that there is plenty more fun to be had in the future.  Its just that I have already watched a few members of our group walk across the stage already and after this upcoming semester I know there will be even more some that I am closer to, and while I am extremely happy for them, and I wouldn't want to hold them back.  It will be so difficult to see them leave and just hope that we have enough drive and planning to meet again.

Wow... Well I didn't mean for that to get so... whatever it got.  This was just going to be a short little post but I digress.

Getting Serious (Rant)

(I wrote this a few days ago after checking up on a case in my town that has been developing over lewd behavior between a teacher and a student, but couldn't decide if I wanted to post it or not. Finally I decided to go ahead and post it because I felt it should be posted. Why? I don't really know but feel free to skip this post if you want to, it makes for a serious read and doesn't contain any pleasant reading material.)





It is amazing how many people swarm out of the wood work when something bad happens. At the high school where I graduated from a teacher is convicted of lewd conduct with a student, and now there are swarms of people telling how they always thought he was a good for nothing, and how my school is a terrible school. Shut the freak up, if you had known before hand, why didn't you voice concerns? Thats right because you had no clue, just like everyone else.

And my school isn't a crappy school, we are a small school, we have a small budget, and no school is perfect. Plus I have always found that schools are what you make them. Sure there are extraneous circumstances but if you think your school is a terrible place, AND SO BORING. Change it. Don't just whine about it.
And don't attack his family. They didn't make him do what he did, and you can be sure that they are shocked and hurt.

This whole story makes me just sick. I thought I knew him. He was my class sponser and I hung out with him at Six Flags. I was in his leadership class, and he helped give us the best homecoming dance ever. He got me to be more active in my school, and my community. I thought he was an awesome guy. I respected and trusted him. I guess that is why I feel sick and betrayed. I feel like I am being over dramatic or something about it, because he didn't do anything bad to me. But I feel like he stole something from me. My faith that good people are really what they seem, and not just trying to get close to children or something.

That faith probably should already have been gone, but it was my school. It was never supposed to happen there. Bad things like this happen to other places. We were only supposed to worry about getting sucked up in a tornado and pathetic school fights.

And another thing that makes me mad is that he did have some good ideas. We had a poverty awareness where we raised can foods and slept in boxes at the school. It was a wonderful event and I would like to think that it helped people but now it is marred because his name is associated with it. He could have done a lot of good in this world but he had to go and ruin it with a stupid, stupid, disgusting decision.