My tea is now cozy
Progress at uni will probably be judged by my knitting output. This week, I’ve knit a few balls of a wrap (ideal for the iceboxes lecture theatres) and a tea cozy:
Now I can study with hot tea, rather than the insipid stuff I’ve been forced to drink with a naked tea pot. Funnies this week include having a fellow IBMW student use several words for vagina other than vagina and blush when prompted to use the proper word for it (gina, gine, snatch, box and a few others came up!), and rumour having it that we have to learn Pap smears on each other… I’m yet to get any confirmation of that and while I’m not troubled by it myself as I see the value in learning and would actually prefer to learn on someone who knew what they were in for, rather than women for whom Informed Consent would be a grey area, it’d be nice to have confirmation rather than rumour.
Hoooooo boy is there a LOT of reading in this course. My tute reading the other day - 3 hours solid. Very interesting to read across feminist theory, Aboriginal progress, men in the profession, horizontal violence and such but wow that’s a lot of reading!
I have assignments and placements already which is exciting!!! And I’ve organised some extra things to hopefully get some women to follow-through as soon as we’re able to. It would have been nice to have a meet-and-greet for the mid students during induction last week, and it would be nice to not feel like a lone duck in all of my labs and tutes and such as I’ve managed to organise a rather individual timetable for this semester, but with only 16 contact hours a week spread out over 5 FRICKING DAYS, I can’t really expect it all to be roses, right? Until week 3, I’m only at uni 3 days a week and I have a lot of time to do other things. Like hate the Clipsal car race, dye wool, sweat a lot and spend time with my sweetie.
