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Jun. 30th, 2005 06:59 amManaged to make it through yesterday without damaging any of the people who annoyed me, although I'm seriously tempted to start wiping Nemesis's motorcycle down with poison ivy leaves, after his latest stunt. (Which is mostly a non-issue, because I talked to New Boss about it some yesterday morning, who assured me that he hadn't taken any of that seriously, but dammit, there's been so much of that BS from Nemesis over the years....)
The first "meeting" yesterday was really the declaration, by Maintenance Superviser, that we as a department were going to be doing "weed Wednesday" for a while, picking an area and as a group policing it and pulling weeds for an hour. grrrrrr. The readership will not that the area for yesterday's action was one nominally maintained by Nemesis (who stood around watching the rest of us clean up after him, bastard). MS tried to tell me that this would be available to help me out on the tree trail as well, but I informed him that I didn't have any beds in my areas that were in that condition, thank you very much, because I do my job. Bastard.
The second meeting was another Japanese garden thingie, with the designer they've flown in from California. Dunno if you've heard of Take Uesugi,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anguisetteowner. He's out of CalPoly, and is a really big name in landscape architecture in general and Japanese garden design in particular. I'd gone into the meeting thinking I didn't care what was said, it was a fine excuse to sit in the AC for a while, but...of the four designs Takeo presented, I fell in love with one. (I need to email the coordinator of the project and see if I can get a copy of it for my own enjoyment.) Very modern, very strong clean geometric lines that really fit the architecture and geometries of the site, elegantly simple....and the profs who plan to be teaching something out of this garden vetoed it at once. Not traditional enough, can't teach the things they wanted to teach out of it. grrrrr. The design they settled on was very traditional, almost fussy by the time the designer had fit all the appropriate elements into the half-acre site. Pond, stream, boulders, dry streambed filled with gravel (and how we're going to keep THAT clean I have no idea)....the designer did include some walls at the corners, mostly because it was appropriate, but that'll help keep the students from cutting corners across the space.
*sigh* I'm crossing my fingers and really hoping I won't have to worry about taking care of that nonsense.
Made and filled another 8 or 9 cedar bags for my shawl chest last night. Would have gotten more done, but I dozed off mid-evening. Would like to keep making the bags, if only to use up the cedar shavings (I've got half the original bale of stuff left), but that may get put down in favor of other projects. Got all the shawls but one packed awway in it (that one is still in my Heartland stuff, I think), and the chest is nearly full. Hmmm. Either I need to find another chest, or start knitting other things.
Remembered to try By's kilt hose on him last night. Still have another pattern repeat left, before I start on the ribbing. I keep forgetting how much stretching the socks horizontally around his leg takes up the vertical distance in the socks. I **think** I have enough yarn to finish them properly.
Brought yarn to start T's kilt hose today, if I do spend the day in the water truck, which depends on how much rain we get this morning. It's already poured here, for all of 10 minutes, and that may be all we're going to get. The radar looked like most of the rain is headed north. Yup, that was what I guessed...not enough to really register in the rain gauge. Water truck it is, then.
The first "meeting" yesterday was really the declaration, by Maintenance Superviser, that we as a department were going to be doing "weed Wednesday" for a while, picking an area and as a group policing it and pulling weeds for an hour. grrrrrr. The readership will not that the area for yesterday's action was one nominally maintained by Nemesis (who stood around watching the rest of us clean up after him, bastard). MS tried to tell me that this would be available to help me out on the tree trail as well, but I informed him that I didn't have any beds in my areas that were in that condition, thank you very much, because I do my job. Bastard.
The second meeting was another Japanese garden thingie, with the designer they've flown in from California. Dunno if you've heard of Take Uesugi,
anguisetteowner. He's out of CalPoly, and is a really big name in landscape architecture in general and Japanese garden design in particular. I'd gone into the meeting thinking I didn't care what was said, it was a fine excuse to sit in the AC for a while, but...of the four designs Takeo presented, I fell in love with one. (I need to email the coordinator of the project and see if I can get a copy of it for my own enjoyment.) Very modern, very strong clean geometric lines that really fit the architecture and geometries of the site, elegantly simple....and the profs who plan to be teaching something out of this garden vetoed it at once. Not traditional enough, can't teach the things they wanted to teach out of it. grrrrr. The design they settled on was very traditional, almost fussy by the time the designer had fit all the appropriate elements into the half-acre site. Pond, stream, boulders, dry streambed filled with gravel (and how we're going to keep THAT clean I have no idea)....the designer did include some walls at the corners, mostly because it was appropriate, but that'll help keep the students from cutting corners across the space.*sigh* I'm crossing my fingers and really hoping I won't have to worry about taking care of that nonsense.
Made and filled another 8 or 9 cedar bags for my shawl chest last night. Would have gotten more done, but I dozed off mid-evening. Would like to keep making the bags, if only to use up the cedar shavings (I've got half the original bale of stuff left), but that may get put down in favor of other projects. Got all the shawls but one packed awway in it (that one is still in my Heartland stuff, I think), and the chest is nearly full. Hmmm. Either I need to find another chest, or start knitting other things.
Remembered to try By's kilt hose on him last night. Still have another pattern repeat left, before I start on the ribbing. I keep forgetting how much stretching the socks horizontally around his leg takes up the vertical distance in the socks. I **think** I have enough yarn to finish them properly.
Brought yarn to start T's kilt hose today, if I do spend the day in the water truck, which depends on how much rain we get this morning. It's already poured here, for all of 10 minutes, and that may be all we're going to get. The radar looked like most of the rain is headed north. Yup, that was what I guessed...not enough to really register in the rain gauge. Water truck it is, then.
