No news is NOT good news…

Well, I went for the interview (thanks for the well wishing etc!) – it was for an assistant librarian post, and was the first interview I’ve been to in years, plus my first qualified post interview. I wasn’t awful, which was good. I was only very slightly nervous, which was vvvv good considering how sick with nerves I’ve been all week about it. But I wasn’t good! That’s the problem! I did ok considering, but I might as well have been interviewed for a job in nuclear physics for how precise I was, and how many times I repeated myself! But I am ok 🙂 It was a very good learning experience, and I now have a good idea of what kind of questions to expect for future interviews. I know how to learn from mistakes 😉 No news from my interviewers here is most definitely not good news…
Secondly, Oscar is still not back. DB still thinks he will be back, as does anyone I say anything to about him, but I reckon most of them are just being nice and supportive. He won’t be back – he’s found his way back home and they are keeping him in, having had the shock of seeing him in the slightly camp collar. I want to get a cat of our own – I need a cat to call mine, and there are plenty of them who need someone to love them, and haven’t just been running around all over the place and eating kind people out of house and home (plus being bought toys, scratching post, collars (albeit camp sparkly ones), dishes, and a fire guard because they demonstrate a worrying fascination with the fireplace). I miss him like mad, but ultimately he isn’t really mine, and if he has left, then I need to find a cat who really needs me. But not till after November. That is because DB has been asked to go to a conference in Minneapolis, and has asked me if I fancy the trip over. My boss has already said yes (I asked her, she said no (jokingly, but realistically too – it is our busiest month), DB asked her again and she agreed :D). We just have to look at whether DB can get there himself – his passport needs updating, and we aren’t sure if it needs to be x number of months old before he can travel there. But that could be quite a cool trip. It will be my second ever trip abroad (Prague was the first), and it could be fab if there are some good yarn shops. I may take an empty suitcase… 😉 If we go that is.
Finally, some knitting action. I’ve finished the body of the lace leaf pullover. I still can’t post a pic I’m afraid cos of this lack of permissions problem, but it isn’t really worth it… The pattern is lovely. I’m even reasonably happy with the kitchener grafting I did (first time too, apart from on socks, and that doesn’t count compared to this one!). But, yet again, the question of the yarn rears its ugly head. It is lovely to wear, light as a feather, goes a massively long way (it took less than 3 balls to make the body with it – how cool is that?!), but it is really irregular on the big needles. It looks nice with an open gauge, but it just can’t keep neat and tidy. It has this lovely bohemian look to it, but it just isn’t right with the pattern I think. I need something a bit more offbeat for it. It would look fab with drop stitch patterns and the like, but I’m not quite sure what it wants. Failing all other things, because there are 7 balls of it, I can make a plain jumper, and add a drop stitch rib or something. Maybe. Dunno really! I can get it to match Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Chunky tho for gauge, so I could make the bolero shrug from simply soft if it looks ok, but as I say, it seems to call for something a little different. That I still love the yarn is the only good sign of the day today…
So now I need to find a cheap and easy sub for the lace leaf pullover. Which is a bit of a bugger. Wonder how Leah is doing with hers in Polar… And I can cross off another project from the needles for now too! (woot – that means starting something else ;D)