Welcome to my world

Hi, I'm new to this so let's see how it goes. I'm HalcyonOK, and just starting up on the blogging thing. So bear with me and let's see how this goes. Life has turned out to be a funny old thing you know, I'm officially middle-aged now, and have found that the local society has no use for, or perhaps just doesn't know what to do with, a middle-aged divorced woman professional who voluntarily chose to quit a high-paying corporate research job in NY (the kind that doesn't exist around here for someone in my field) to come back home to Oklahoma for family's sake. And what I mean by that, is that I get some of the most unbelievable questions; along the lines of, 'why on EARTH did you quit a job like that and come here - are you ill?' How weird is that? I like to get into a lot of things (local doings, crafting, politics, science, math, photos, etc) so stay tuned - there's no knowing what will catch my attention. I hope you like and enjoy whatever you read here. I'll be blogging on a variety of subjects, as the spirit takes me. Today, for example, is a S-L-O-W day. I'm grading exams (I'm teaching physics for non-majors), and knitting in my off-times, while it gets nastier and nastier outside. It's cold, snow-ey, and decidedly un-spring-like day - the kind that drags one down. We hit 73 degrees on Monday, yet, it just hit 35 today. I'm into knitting today - when I'm not working on papers - I took one of the Lion Brand Yarn patterns and modified it a bit - a one-button jacket, somewhat deconstructed, knitting in a clear forest green - quite nice, if I say so myself :). When it's a bit further along, I'll post photos of my version :). On another note, I saw the most interesting program on the history channel today - someone postulated that there may be a black hole beneath the Atlantic Ocean, with a corresponding feature in the Pacific, underlying the Bermuda and Japanese triangles, respectively. These two areas are coincidentally halfway around the world from one another; in both, people, ships, airplanes and other things have a habit of disappearing, and both lie in ocean-bottom features that just happen to be the deepest features in their respective areas. Hmmm ... I wasn't paying attention so much the first time, but it's back on again at 5 pm. I heard something about an investigation of the hypothesis - think I'll share it with my students. And with you, of course - more later on that. This might be the beginnings of a GREAT SciFir short story - who knows? Well, back to the exams. TTFN Professor Knitting Fiend