Some Pride, both in my yarn and in my school

So I haven't done too much crocheting and knitting lately because school has been so busy, but I have managed to get a little bit done on some of my projects. Maybe if you consider spending my entire Friday crocheting on my pride afghan, Granny Got Pride, and finishing it this morning. Of course this is really the only thing I have been working on besides a lot of baby hats, and a lone sock.

So I started this afghan at the beginning of the school year, and I finished it on the last day of the first 9 weeks.(for anyone who doesn't know, we split up our school years in Florida into two semesters and each semester consists of two quarters, each consisting of nine weeks, approximately) It is pretty nice, it came out a little differently than I thought it would, but I love it none the less, plus I have some rainbow sock yarn I will definitely be using later on.

That I proudly showed off to my tumblr a couple of weeks ago(plus I got it on a super sale!!!)
I have quite a bit left over from my afghan. I might make a rainbow scarf out of it. Chevrons anyone?!

I guess I have been teasing long enough,

Here it is, in all its homosexual glory
I kind of forgot to mention that I kind of have an instagram, kind of
I am comradeaustin, and I guess I am just getting deeper and deeper into the hipster lifestyle, as my jeans get tighter and tighter and my imaginary glasses get thicker and thicker rims.

So I am always super happy with my school this time of year. We are all finally getting into the groove of the school year, plus I get a half day on Thursday and Friday I get off completely. Best of all it is Mister and Misses New World. It is a pretty common tradition in normal highschools to have a pageant of their students, usually having a Mr *Insert Quirky Pun on the Name Of the School*, and they have the attractive and popular men showcase themselves. But in case of my amazing school (although I am sure it happens in other places) it is two days of cross dressing, with the girls dressing as men on Wednesday and the real show happens on Thursday with the boys dressing as fabulous women. They attempt to collect money for the charity United Way, but most the time they are having to much fun fooling around in high heels to remember to ask for money. To be honest this isnt a bad thing because United Way isn't a great charity, it has a history of corruption in Miami, and I don't like it much. But it is still lots of fun, and it is a lot more fun that listening to our homeroom teachers heckle us for money.

Now most of the time Mrs. New World is much better than Mr. New World, mainly because the women think that the best cross dressing costume is a grungy boy look with saggy sweat pants, a wife beater, and a snap back hat, but there was a notable stand out

This is my beautiful friend Becca, who dressed as a gentleman, and brought a cane, and spoke in a snooty british accent the entire day, which is wonderful commitment(photo credz, to speak in the vernacular, to Chantal Acacio, do you see my lovely scarf, it made it this year out of some wonderful alpaca, but I have to shave before I wear it because it sheds onto my facial hair)

And then the spectacle of Mrs New World assualted me in first period. The wonderful thing about this day is that the boys always go all out. They borrow dresses and get into their high heels and they strut, and boy do they strut.

This is the beautiful Sam, quite pretty(photo by Chantal Acacio)

And here is me and big Momma Alex, isn't he so enthusiastic for a freshman
Normally most of the freshmen boys are pretty hesitant about it, but this year there was an awful lot of turnout by them. You always see a lot of the really conservative and really straight boys sort of traumatized  but they get used to it, wait till spirit week, it gets even more awesome.
Now the reason I am so proud of my school is that we can do this, and have lots of fun, and none of the teachers and administrators care, even a lot of them join with us. I have a feeling that we aren't the only school that does this, but no one thinks that it is stupid, even the snarkiest of people love it. Probably one of my most favorite holidays of the year.

So I have a lot of gay pride, but that isn't the only thing I am proud of. I am proud of my awesome open minded school where I can have this pride. I am proud of my beautiful and creative friends. I am most of all proud of how awesome the human race can be, I know all this excitement is just chemicals in my brain, but damn, do they feel awesome.

Choir Concert and Allstate

So I am going to be obnoxious and talk about the thing I wrote in the title second. I GOT INTO READING CHOIR AT ALL STATE!!!! and so did my friend Sofia! I found out in the middle of my AP US History class and I had a substitute in that class, and I made the most unearthly scream of joy when I pulled up the PDF on my iPhone and I saw Sofia's name and then my name.  I am so happy for both of us, we are going to have a blast, plus this means we won't have to freak out over learning the music the day the of the second audition. So reading choir is basically the choir you get into if you can sight read very well, and we spent all the rehearsals sight reading music which is super tiring, but we don't have to rehearse as much as the other people. So YAY!!!!

Now to the thing all of you want to hear about...my choir concert!!! It was on friday and it was tons of fun. It was my first concert as tenor section leader, and it was pretty cool. Plus the tenors sounded pretty great, if I do say so myself. I always get pretty hyper right before a concert, so at almost every concert I take tons of pictures with my friends. So here are a few of them

(she is the most adorable freshwoman)

(aren't my friend beautiful?)

photobombing like a boss
And all of these photos are courtesy of my lovely best friend Stephanie Ortega

Beach Trip!!!

Sorry I havent kept up the blog, but I have a lot to tell all of you, so here goes.

Last week was kind of super-ultra-extra stressful so my family took a road trip to Fort Myers and I basically spent the entire weekend knitting on a beach staring at the gorgeous sand and knitting and tanning.

here is an instagram picture of the sunset
It was kind of wonderful and amazing. It was the first time I spent a weekend just knitting and relaxing and just having fun the entire time, of course I didnt get any work done on my school stuff, but it could wait. I do have to maintain my sanity.

So I hadn't done much in the way of knitting, but I did get to cast on and finish the clever wingspan, which is a wonderful scarf made from short row triangles. I usually try not to knit things that are as popular as wingspan. I am what is called a "hipster" in the vernacular. I don't usually like things that are too main stream. I decided that this was good enough to ignore those tendencies and I casted it on, and I finished it over the weekend and I blocked it. I kind of love it a lot. It is out of fleece artist sea wool.

So I kind of had a wonderful time last weekend, now if only every weekend could be like that.