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Good news first – I finished the turtleneck shrug.
Then.

I cast on for the Zigzag bag that I had bought the kit for at the knitter’s fair. And the pattern is wrong, wrong, so very wrong! It has you cast on 158 sts, but the pattern row given is for 160 sts! Argh! And I was all hoping to get some done on it – I suppose I’ll have to figure it out myself, either cast on 160 or something……

is it so much to ask that a pattern, re-written by a store for sale, be correct (and after people have knit samples of it!)??

Gahhhhhh.

I had my first botany lab today. It was about algae (spirogyra being one of the species), and boy, did that lab stink. The acetone fumes gave me a headache, too. Now I’m super-duper tired, even though the three-hour lab was my only class today.

On the knitting front (no pictures today), I finished one of the fronts of Bella last night while watching Francois Ozon’s “Swimming Pool” on TMN on Demand. I’ve seen it before (maybe even twice, I don’t remember) but it was still good watchin’ (and knittin’!). Bella is really really fast when I dedicate the time to it (her?). Knitting the sleeves after doing these uber-long body pieces (they’re about 32″ long) will be a cinch, I hope.

I’m also slowly slowly getting there on the second sleeve of my turtleneck shrug. I’ve got just a few more inches until I switch to doing rows instead of rounds – I’m going to focus getting that done tonight AFTER I do my reading, say, in front of Law and Order at 11.

Must…stay…awake…

Oh, and lettuce knit in NOW!

Today I was interviewed by a woman from the National Post while at work – it was cool. Next Saturday, I think she said.

Whew. I meant to come home early to get my room all fixed up and cleaned, but that didn’t exactly happen! I went to the redroom on Spadina with a friend after work, and after that I had coffee at Timmy’s with a different friend. Got home at 10:15 or so – which is when I started to clean my room. I’ve given up for today, but I’ve got things semi-arranged! Now I just need to sort through some more of my crap…I’ve got wayyyy too much stuff in my room. Useless stuff.

At any rate, I decided to display my yarn rather than have it be in random plastic bags and tubs on the floor. So, I cleaned out one of my bookcases (I have three – I also had to make room for this year’s textbooks on the bookshelf next to my desk) and put (almost) all my knitting stuff in it. I’ve still got one tub and my workbaskets, but the majority of my yarn is out – and y’know, it’s not so bad. It’s not like I’ve gone *completely* stash crazy. And now I can actually see what I have, and get motivation and inspiration!

Must go take a shower before I drop. Getting picked up tomorrow morning at 10 for the big trip to the Kitchener/Waterloo knitting festival! (I’d better not take too much money with me! Yikes!)