knitting . . .

a day filled with various things. i lost a book of the library, _telling sexual stories_, in summer and they asked me this morning to pay 75 quid for it. way too much, cuz the paperback was out of order, they figured they'd get the hardcopy, which was 70. i was told that i could find a copy by myself, as long as it is good as new. managed to find a much cheaper one online from barnes and nobles, though had to have it delivered to me by international express- but even with the shipping fees it's still a lot less than £75.

as one can imagine, i was for a moment panicking. not just because of the money i owed, but also that the library freezes my account, and that all my one-week loans have to go without the possibility of being renewed- and i was like: for god's sake, i am working on my thesis!

but supposedly the damned book will get here next week and i will then be able to check out all the books that i want. the librarian was really nice; she extended duration of the book i recalled to the end of next week. i've also bought a copy of _telling sexual stories_ for myself, so that i don't have to check out the book and irrationally feel that it might be lost again. . . (to be fair, i lost it while carrying it on way home in my bike basket, not somewhere in my messy room that sort of thing)

after the book thing came the knitting. we had a fun event this afternoon of knitting with wine and cakes. i learned again how to knit, the last time being at the age of 8 with my grandmother on a typhoon day. i was still not very good at it, but it was fun. it's just that my knitting is like me, tight and dense.

and then came the news of my abstract being accepted in BSA. didn't quite expect it- always thought that my thing would be too 'region-specific' for big and general conferences. but i suppose it's nothing but good. had a look at the 'culture stream' and excitingly seeing a bunch of papers on ict. very looking forward to them.:)

listed out all the conferences that i am going/might go next year and sat down with ann to go thru each of them, in an attempt of dropping some. eventually i dropped only one, and there's about one that generally i'd like to go but actually feel ambivalent- it's just too far and i hate long-distance flights. ann joked that she'd never thought that anyone would hate to go to santa cruz, california. ah well, i'd probably be said hating taiwan for the same reason- i really want to avoid long-distance flights as much as i can.

but then i _am_ flying to west canada. . . think that will be more than 13 hours. oh no. Q_Q