Whee! Midterms!

Taking a slight break (or any excuse to procrastinate)  from studying for midterms to write. This week is going to be rather abysmal. I have a French Midterm, a PE midterm project, a chapters worth of French homework to do, and a paper due at midnight tonight. Gah! And they are all, except for the test, things I could have accomplished a long time ago, but I'm dreadfully short-sighted when it comes to planning.                      

I did manage to have a minor breakthrough for this paper on Descartes concerning the moral failing that happens in errors of judgement. I'm going to frame the paper around Eve's decision to eat the fruit in the garden, and bring in Milton's wonderful quotation from Book 3.99 of Paradise Lost, concerning man's capacity for free will: "Sufficient to have stood though free to fall." Over break I will be reading PL and Hamlet, and writing a paper on them, so PL is fresh in my mind.

Things I consider necessary for studying: ear plugs, (they make life so much easier) an apple, and water. 

Books help too. Is it clear I love Post-its?

The picture in the binder is left over from last years Doctrine I, and is the faculty of Old Princeton the year Geerhardus Vos was installed as faculty in 1894.

Surprise package

A couple of weeks ago was SewGreteful Week, a very fun time on the internet, where a host of sewing blogs posted about what they were thankful for, things they wanted to share about sewing, projects, and of course giveaways. Sarah over at the Pattern Vault hosted a neat giveaway of Vogue 8875, which I was blessed enough to win!
I will now taunt you with several pictures. Getting packages is so much fun!

I'm really looking forward to sewing this up! I have no idea when I will have time this semester, but I do have a summer coming up faster than I would like. The redingote (the overcoat) might be something really handy to sew for those not quite spring, not quite winter days we get down here in Georgia.

Sunday Excursion

Sunday was delightful. After lunch I took a long walk behind the college. The air was just that right temperature of nippy-ness which keeps you cool despite steep hills and a brisk pace. Looking back at the pictures, I noticed how gray everything is. 

The moss covered path behind the college. I don't have any pictures, but they redid a couple of trails. They are nice and broad, but lack character.

The view over Jackson Pond. We can't swim there anymore, but that doesn't bother me one jot. The water was green.

When taking pictures of the landscape, pondscape? I saw someone in the water taking pictures too. We took a picture of each other.

 It always amuses me when I see the moon and the sun in the same sky, and reminds me of Lewis Carroll  "The moon was shining sulkily, 

because she though the sun 

had no business to be there 

after the day was done."

-The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carroll

 I found a cool waterfall, but it won't last long. Georgia is not kind to ice.

I think this is a piece of down from an owl. 

Don't jump!