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cabezalana 12 april 2014 eye rack so i haven t updated this in quite a while and a lot has changed the big thing recently is that i took a job as a government contractor with a company that supplies bomb sniffing and other working dogs to overseas contracts just over two weeks ago i arrived on a one year contract as in house veterinarian on a base in iraq the big reason for the jump aside from the money and moving away from private practice is that the experience should serve me very well when i apply to federal fellowship programs for next year so far it s been interesting work the problems i ve encountered have been fairly standard fare but i m working with a mix of american iraqi and south african dog handlers who are by and large really decent and fun people to work with the dogs range from total sweethearts to eat your face off types but i rely on the handlers to hold the dogs so i can do my job and i really love watching all of them work they re just amazing and really love what they do i m working on learning some arabic and the little i do know is already coming in handy this evening i came out of the shower building to three iraqi kids from a cleaning crew asking me if it was hospital after i walked them down to the clinic here on the contractor compound which had closed for the night i realized they must have seen me in my scrub top and thought i was the doctor i was able to explain to them that i m the veterinarian and that tomorrow there will be an iraqi doctor at the clinic by the end of this i hope to have an additional language skill which will also come in handy when applying to fellowships and aside from all of that the desert dawns have been quite spectacular posted by mel at 2 13 pm 7 comments 07 march 2013 snow bunny yesterday i went downhill skiing for the first time in over 22 years i turn 44 in a few weeks so that s literally half my lifetime the last time was in 1991 when i was a first year veterinary student a group of us spent a weekend at lutsen it was a fun enough weekend but what i remember most is taking a lift to a second not very developed peak that on the trail maps had a blue intermediate main slope on the ground that trail turned to black diamond advanced about halfway down with no warning and no alternative way out for someone who d only been skiing two or three times as a kid it was a bit intense the following summer i messed up my knee so i didn t feel particularly compelled to try again this season though david who also hadn t skied in about 20 years decided he wanted to try again so last week he went with friends of ours while i was at work this week my wednesday was free for the first time in 6 months as i ve been temporarily laid off from job 2 due to the economy a first for me david found a midweek deal at a resort within driving distance so we got up early and headed out the deal included a 2 hour lesson equipment rentals and a limited lift ticket which meant we could only use one lift to a fairly short trail seeing as it had been so long it was a pretty good way to get my feet metaphorically wet again i realized pretty quickly though that i was better than i remembered most likely because i wasn t struggling with a slope way beyond my skill level i expect all the years of yoga and taiji and learning to pay attention to what my body s doing helped too whatever it is it looks like we re going to have a new winter pastime posted by mel at 9 56 pm 3 comments 16 february 2013 sweet boys posted by mel at 10 13 pm 3 comments 16 january 2013 deathflake lopapeysa it took me almost a year to finally get around to finishing this lopapeysu but the frustrations along the way were so worth the final product i had to redo the neck twice and then i had to go back and completely rip out and redo the first sleeve after i realized it was too narrow the perils of making it up as you go along i suppose next time i go to iceland though this is definitely going along if nothing else so i can see what icelanders make of the pattern in fact let s just get a close up of that yoke that s the totally kickass deathflake motif ravelry link paired with a viking sword motif of my own design a more badass lopapeysu you d be hard pressed to find posted by mel at 3 25 pm 6 comments 10 january 2013 a small repair a couple of weeks ago i noticed that a hole had opened up on one of my felted wool slippers haflingers i heart them greatly life being what it is i hadn t gotten around to doing anything about it but it was bugging me so this morning i grabbed a ball of shetland spindrift and a couple of 2 0mm dpns and i also used the opportunity to practice knitting in reverse i can do it almost but not quite as fast as i purl now and saved a little time by not needing to turn it s a handy skill for working short rows at any rate felting up my little patch was a very quick affair seeing as it s shetland wool then all it took was a tapestry needle a length of the spindrift and a little whip stitch action et voilà posted by mel at 8 57 am 2 comments 16 december 2012 les bouldogues français une comedie en trois actes 1 ere acte 2 eme acte 3 eme acte fin posted by mel at 9 38 pm 2 comments 08 december 2012 a cautionary tale i assume most folks who stop by here have heard of tuvan throat singing but in case you haven t it s this it s a type of what s called overtone singing where the human voice operates something like a bagpipe simultaneously producing both a constant drone note and overtones that carry a melodic line it s also found in some tibetan buddhist chant anyway it s neat stuff and while i don t speak the languages nor do i know the exact technique it is fun to try to play around with the concept i can usually get a little bit of a harmonic going too though nothing approaching the high whistling overtones the tuvans can belt out so this evening while making dinner i was singing to the dogs and generally being silly and once i was done with my prep work i decided to sit on the floor to serenade them i d been trying to sing a song i don t remember which in a low bass but on the low note i kept ending up well sharp of where i needed to be the dogs seemed particularly interested by the low notes though so i decided to start in with a low drone and tried adding in some overtones theo got in close but then jumped back not quite sure what to make of it chauce stood and watched me for a bit but all of a sudden he decided he couldn t hold in his excitement and sprang forward the top of his head slamming into my upper lip and driving it against the edge of my teeth there wasn t as much blood as i feared there would be but it stung when i taste tested the stew i was cooking it stung when i was eating and because it s still rubbing against the edge of my teeth it stings right now if i wake up tomorrow with a noticeably swollen lip i m telling everyone that david came home drunk and slapped me around which will make anyone who knows david pee their pants laughing posted by mel at 11 18 pm 3 comments 29 october 2012 post rhinebeck post i took no photos during the festival this year actually i take that back i took this one for carol who wasn t able to make it this year and then the ever adorable stephen west stopped by to dance under the disco ball in his knit hotpants as always it was a good show and great getting to see all the people that we only seem to see once a year also buying wonderful things i came home with a gorgeous black icelandic fleece which i ll be taking off for processing so that i ll actually be able to knit something with it in my lifetime i also found a perfect contrast yarn to make julia farwell clay s queequeg which i ll be modifying to eliminate the boob shaping and possibly with rolled hems and in case you didn t know edie eckman s latest book made its debut at rhinebeck maybe i ll show up next year with granny hex hotpants in lieu of the kilt posted by mel at 9 18 am no comments 14 september 2012 now we are six months we also got neutered 9 days ago and started obedience school 4 days ago but we re managing both pretty well posted by mel at 10 42 pm 4 comments what i did on my summer vacation turns out graduate school takes up a lot of time a really really lot of time which means i don t have time for much else which means that blogging has gone right out the window as if you hadn t noticed so anyway here s the short short version of my summer we went to south dakota to visit the in laws n b these are not the in laws but i did take the photo in south dakota part of that trip required that we publicly embarrass ourselves then i had a super busy july at work of which i have no readily available photos and then i managed to be away for most of the month of august first i went to san diego for a conference for funsies one afternoon i took the trolley down to the border and spent a few hours in tijuana it was dirty and sad and pretty much what i expected and now that i ve been there i don t have to go back perhaps someday i can visit a nicer part of mexico by which i do not mean cancún at any rate i got back from that trip and was only home for a week before we left for iceland again this time my parents went with us and we were there for nearly two weeks and had an absolute blast that s sheep by the ocean on a fjord and even though you can t really tell those are seals out on a shoal behind them and i have a whole huge whack of photos from the trip here all i can say is that the trip totally refueled my desire to live there even if it s only for a year or three or maybe a decade or longer meantime a lot of wool came home with me and there has been knitting now though it s time for bed posted by mel at 10 40 pm 5 comments 30 may 2012 puppy windup chauce is always excited to get home from work so he can see little brother theo david s glad when chauce gets home so somebody else can deal with all the puppy energy posted by mel at 9 01 pm 4 comments 15 may 2012 so yeah that last post the question was more or less rhetorical no name as yet but hopefully within the next couple of days we got to meet both parents and they were very nice dogs out of the 5 pups in his litter he seemed to be the most easygoing and he gives sweet puppy kisses he still has quite a bit of puppy energy though and i expect the next few months will be interesting chauce has been very good but he s made it clear that he is alpha fortunately the pup knows to pay attention though i can already see him testing to see just where his limits lie did i mention the next few months are going to be interesting posted by mel at 12 40 am 3 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom ways to help help dig a well in haiti tuck swag click here to learn more followers how tos mine others patch toe from duffy sherman short rows stretchy sock cast off from grumperina widdershins generic version sites i visit knitter types andy in amsterdam brooklyntweed blog o licious carole knits cast on the crazed weasel 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