Von, Von Silly Veb Qviz! Ah ha ha ha!

I saw this on At My Knits End a few days ago when I took a moment to peruse a blog and had to try it.

The Count's Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

It started with a simple affection for counting and
the terror it induced in others, didn't it?
But now it's turned into a full-blown
life-consuming chaotic nightmare of order,
repetition, zealousness, and perfectionism.
You used to be so grand, but now you find
yourself obsessively worrying over the littlest
things--like, maybe if you don't check the
light switch at least once every two minutes,
the electricity will go out (and damnit, you're
a vampire--that shouldn't be a problem!), or
maybe if you don't wash your hands until your
seams are coming out, you'll get some fatal
disease. Get yourself some treatment.


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It's always a little worrisome when they're so accurate, isn't it? Ok, so I don't wash my hands until my seams are coming out, but I knit accurate, fussy, little stuff. I haven't put any of my yarn away because I want a certain type of (apparently non-existent) cabinet to display it in. (Why put it away when I could look at it? It's pretty -- that's why I bought it!) The knitting books are on their shelf alphabetically by author. I had to make a grading sheet for the current lab because I wasn't comfortable with "completed lab report, correct calculations, correct identification of unknown metal, accuracy within 5% of correct molar mass, and good attempt at answering postlab questions: Assign 20 points" as a grading guideline.

I just accept these things and keep looking for those cabinets. :)

Knitting Content

Sorry I'm still too lazy to take more pictures. You can imagine some white seed stitch on 0's, right? Keep that thought.

I've finished the back and one front on this jacket and was made good progress on the second front at knitting on Saturday. I ran out of yarn, but I can get some more from my supplier. I knit at the Borders North group every other week and try to get some knitting time with my mom on the other weekends, so I expect that I should be able to finish it before the baby outgrows it! I wish I had more time to knit, or was brave enough to broach the subject with my advisor to see if I could knit during group meeting, but I'm not feeling that brave yet. Maybe in a while...

I saw a girl on campus last week who had a really cute hat. It had a bobble pattern on the top and a wide (1" - 1.5") brim that was knit sideways in the round. The cool part was that the end of the brim was tapered to a triangle and it had a big button on it, like it was a tab. (Maybe when I have more time I can make a sketch.) I asked if I could look at it and she said sure and turned her head. I said, "Can you take it off so I can touch it?" She thought it was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her. (The hat, if it was handknit, was made by someone in an n-th world country.) I examined and returned her hat and went on my merry way, thinking, "Well, she's just not a knitter!"

I wonder if that would look good with that Koigu I tried to make the other hat out of...

Cume Content

I haven't gotten my cume back yet, so no word on that. It was a good exam, I thought, but as Kim said, the challenge was saying enough in the short time allotted! If anyone would like further head explosion, I have a spectroscopy exam on Tuesday morning. :)

I'm already in the family business! I format all of the sock of the month patterns. They pay in yarn. I have to have this other career since Safeway doesn't take socks in exchange for groceries.

Brenda, I love those cookies! But if I spend a lot of time studying on the couch, I don't want to turn into a blimp. :) I'm sitting here with an end-of-the-season cantalope now instead of eating more banana bread. But if cookies showed up at my door, rest assured that they wouldn't be wasted. ;)