Thanks for continuing to stop by, friends. Things have been busy, but very good. Instead of wasting time reading my apologies for not posting, want to see A LOT of pictures from November and December of 2015? Here you go — and here’s to 2016.

Soup, chicken salad, and iced tea at my favorite lunch spot.

More soup, more iced tea. (And prepping for class, which is a pretty accurate reflection of my life most days.)

Fall leaves on my driveway sometime in November.

This dog, being ridiculous.

Course prep outside at my favorite coffee shop.

Documenting a Friday professor costume. (I didn’t start off the semester wearing jeans, but by November, it was necessary. At least on Fridays…)

More soup, but this came from my kitchen. Sweet potato miso soup, I think.

Soup prep. Around mid-November, I started making a big pot of something on Saturday afternoons. Adjusting to professor-life has meant re-learning how to feed myself; sometimes there’s just not enough time in the day. (I’ve eaten more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches this fall than I think I have since kindergarten…)

An afternoon walk with my favorite dog.

Holiday treats from a new and already dear friend.

Sweet, sweet dog.

Pesto pasta salad in my car — on the holiday road trip I took to my parents’ house.

An old and very warm blanket that was my grandmother’s. Check out that tag!

Southwestern butternut squash soup, simmering.

Late-night self portrait. Mid-December, maybe? (WordPress scrambled the order of these photos when I batch uploaded them, and I’m too lazy to put them back into chronological order.)

At least one of us is doing yoga…hoping to return to my practice in 2016.

Cozy.

Took a road trip to participate in an event organized by grad students on the other side of the state; saw this gorgeous heron on a walk through a beautiful garden.

Evening sky.

Those wrinkles!

Celebrating the end of the semester with another new faculty member: fancy lunch and cocktails in the middle of the day!

Oh, and look! I did do some knitting this fall. I made two of these eternity scarves out of some luxurious Lorna’s Laces (maybe it’s called Lion and Lamb?) silk/merino blend. One for a dear friend’s birthday, and another as a holiday present for my amazing faculty mentor. I love this pattern; knits up beautifully no matter the yarn, and it is so, so wearable. I’m already behind on some wedding blanket knitting; maybe I can get some of that on the needles before the semester starts up — in less than 2 weeks! Better get back to course prep and syllabus-writing. Happy New Year, friends. And happy knitting.