This week in commentary.

All right:

I finished BSJ, with Sara’s help. (It really does pay to have a second set of eyes sometimes! I can’t believe I made such a mistake; I thought I was doing well.)

Oh wait, you wanted to see the real thing? Well, have an awful picture.

Yay! Yes, awful picture, I know. I’m starting to realize the best place in the house for taking pictures (on the window ledge or the kitchen table), and unfortunately neither of those are good places for modeled photos. You know how everyone says to have the sun/light behind you when you’re taking pictures? Yeah? Well they’re WRONG. When you’re inside [my] house, you want to face a window when taking pictures, otherwise it’s way too dark. But look. It’s finished. (Though I admit that I didn’t actually finish off the top and weave in the last end until just before taking this picture yesterday, upon finding the blog was back.)

Quantum Mechanics Assignment (aka BSJ):
Pattern: Bloody Stupid Johnson
Yarn:Heirloom Easy Care 8 Ply (thanks for putting this in Ravelry, Stephanie. Otherwise you’d never have known.)
Needles: US size 3/3.25mm Knitpicks Harmony DPNs. Whimper. Apparently I’ve become a loose knitter.

One disappointment is how short it is. It’s never going to keep my ears covered in -20˚F windchill. Oh well. It’ll be a nice fall/spring hat.

And what else did I start?

Ahem… I may be in a bit of knitting jag with the socks. It’s All Socks All The Time for me now. Here I thought I was someone who with variety. Did I mention Spring Forward is now another Must Knit? And here I thought I wasn’t going to like that one. Also, I should’ve joined Summer of Socks ’08. I left 2 skeins of sock yarn in dorm storage for the summer. I now see why this was a Bad Idea. These socks, they’re getting really addicting. In fact I’m really close to throwing my plans for a sweater over the summer out the window and just knitting socks. (Yeah. Really.) I mean, I stopped checking my e-mail to wake up in the morning and instead started knitting. That’s how addicting, they’re getting in the way of my other well-established addictions! So yeah. More Sock Yarn Please.

(Though please don’t think of this as a real request for sock yarn… I do have enough for 4 more pairs still. I probably only need enough for 3, as summer begins to wind down. But if I run out, well. There’s always the Internet for more!)

Last week I also inherited two large bags of fabric for quilts!! I can’t believe it. I’m not really a quilter yet, but I’ve expressed interest in becoming one, and so… two bags of fabric fell into my lap. It’s amazing how things like that just happen sometimes. (thank you thank you thank you!!)

hehehe. :D

Though now I realize I should get rid of the yarn I have that I certainly don’t want and never use and put this fabric where they are now. Think Goodwill takes yarn scraps??

One more thing (this time around…):

This is my new “I Am A Superwoman” notebook.

Somehow I got added to Green Bean’s Bushel Basket, saying that I’m an APLS. Well, that means I’m being held accountable! It’s time to put into practice some of the things I think, and sometimes I think I need to write some letters, do some armchair activism. Today, as I was reading the newspaper I thought about oil, and offshore drilling (aaaaaaah!), and read about how Speaker Nancy Pelosi is refusing to allow a vote to end the offshore drilling ban (yaaaaay!), and I decided I needed a place to write down my thoughts to compile into letters later.

But what notebook? Where? Won’t I have to go buy a new one?

Ha, ha. This is coming from the girl who told her mother last night that, though I had only 2 1/2 blank journals left, I still have tons of plain spiral notebooks and paper, some filled, most not. So I dug out this little-used notebook from my new school supplies drawer (I love having that kind of designation for things), and turned it into the “I Am A Superwoman” notebook. Now it’s sitting by my bed and going to contain notes and letters and drafts and rewrites, and it’ll remind me to actually do, not think. And for that I am happy.

Next time: a little more politics, and another “green” realization…