Paul got me Stitch'N Bitch Nation for christmas. I found this wonderful pattern in it for this cute fuzzy bear hat. I'm thrilled! Determined to find out if the yarn comes in a color similar to winnie-the-pooh's, I look at the yarn company's website. No pooh like colors but that's ok I'm still going to have a super cute bear hat. At least that's what I thought. I was indeed irked to find that the company that makes the type of yarn called for in the pattern doesn't sell yarn directly from their sight but I figured hey if it exists you can find it online. Well to my great suprise I can't find an online yarn store that sells all three types of GGH yarn that I need. I have found managed to find sites that sell GGH Lara and GGH Davos but they are two seperate sites. The only way I can find GGH Maxima right now is from a german site. While the site does offer a partial translation in English it has no currency converter. Not a big deal I can find one and do it myself. The problem is do I really want to pay to have yarn shipped all the way from Germany? Seems a bit much to me...this hat is super cute though. I'm hoping that I will be able to find alternatives at an LYS. I think that I will check out Circles to see what alternatives Allison has to offer and if she can't help me I will venture out to a LYS I have never been to before. I will trek to Brookline Village and give A Good Yarn a shot and see what I can find there.

With all the snowing that's been happening I had not had the pleasure off seeing what my MWF classes are like. The class that I was concerned about the most was Calculus 3. Calc 2 was a challenge for me because I had a wonderful teacher who was a hard ass. He wanted you to have a deeply intimate relationship with the subject matter by the end of the semester. Now the Fall '04 semester was a very stressful semester for me and on more than one occasion I thought I was going to cry after taking Calc 2 exams. I struggled, and bitched, and groaned, and pulled hairs out and dreamt of integrals, trig substitution, Gamma function, La Place transformations, complex numbers, polar coordinates and series and sequences and managed to get a C in the class. I had overheard one of the women in my class asking the professor if he would be teaching Calc 3. "No". Yatta! Maybe I would have someone equally as good but that didn't give 14 to 18 question exams. For a whole month I was lead to belive that a new faculty member would be teaching Calc 3, a woman in fact. I haven't had a female math teacher since...sheesh elementary school. I was a little excited. That however changed I was informed that my Calc 2 professor would be teaching the class. I hoped that was a mistake. I walked into the math class sat down and saw HIM walk in. I smiled and said "Hi" when he turned and recognized me. It was my Calc 2 professor. My first thought was to be shocked and to groan and then I thought at least I know what homework and exams will be like. I'm terrified of what is in store for me but people keep telling me that Calc 3 is easier then Calc 2. I can only hope that it is true.