Over the weekend, we switched to Daylight Savings Time. This is earlier than before by about three weeks, but I'm all for it. I love having the extra daylight in the evening, although it is a bit weird, I confess, to go outside at 8 pm in March and have it not quite be dark yet . . .

It's about time to start riding the bike to work again. There's no snow on the streets and sidewalks, although the temperatures are still at or near freezing, and I'm completely confident there's at least one more storm on our horizon. But the world has well and truly started to change, and in a few short days we'll all get equal amounts of light and dark as we spin towards our respective solstices . . . It's about time for my seeds to arrive. Actually, it's past time for my seeds to arrive.

And just as winter is waning, I'm getting ready to put the finishing touches on EB's aran sweater. I finished the sleeves tonight; tomorrow night I'm going to do the collar, and then Thursday I'll be blocking and then seaming. I'm hoping he can wear it by Friday (when it's supposed to be in the mid-40's, alas. Never mind. He's always cold. On Friday he'll be happily wearing his sweater, and I'll be happily running around in shorts . . . )

As a treat to myself for having gotten this sweater done (or mostly done, and gonna-soon-be-done) I got myself a few skeins of sock yarn today. It'll probably be a while before I start them, as I still have socks on the needle for a Christmas (gasp!) gift (yes, last year), but those are a day or two away from completion - by Monday at the latest, I'm guessing. And summer's coming, and socks are good to knit in the summer . . . This is quite a prolonged knitting jag I've been on. (I'm blaming Ravelry for most of it.) I've really got a yen to get other longstanding projects off the needles, too - I have a cardigan for me that's about 75% done, but I told myself I couldn't finish it until I finished Emil's sweater, so I'm about good to go on that one, too. (I think I found the perfect buttons for it today.)

I'm also starting to think about summer, and am beginning to wonder if there's another web-oriented project taking hold of me. When I was at Pharmacy I developed something that has actually had quite a bit of traction - way more than I realized it would, truth to tell; it's just been adopted in the main course management system at UM, I found out. That was a really fun project - and also frustrating, because it's hard to push an idea through 65467436430654 committees and keep it intact and moving forward. It was hard at a place with lots of resources (both money and smart people) to put towards it. Here, the IT climate is not nearly so fertile . . . But I have an idea, and it keeps coming back to me even when I try to repress it, so we'll see . . .

Ah, well. I'd better go get ready for class tomorrow; I pushed through on the knitting and now I'll be sleep-deprived tomorrow . . .