Woe Upon Your Cylon Heart!

Day 20 → A hobby of yours

I can crochet! That's about as much as a hobby as I can do, unless you count watching TV or shipping like I'm getting paid as a hobby.

I tried to find a youtube video of my favorite stitch, and... couldn't find it? Whatever. I know enough to make blankets and scarves, and that is enough for me.

I am in a weird, weird state of mind right now. Maybe it's not 'state of mind' so much as: I feel a bit weird- I'm tired and headachey and stuffy; I have two papers due Tuesday before noon, 3-5 pages each; I have two scarves to finish before Tuesday so Mom can mail them out to our relatives, that's not even taking into account the several I still have to make for some friends; and the Miami Herald is doing this super long series on Cuban, seeing as it's 50th anniversary of Castro's takeover and reading two long articles about it this morning just filled me with angst and sadness.

Ugh.

A) Last night Crusoe almost made me cry from angsty shippiness. This is my dilemma: I love any love story with heart-wrenching angst, but I hate cheaters. THIS A QUANDARY.

(Also, I feel kind of bad for hoping that Crusoe will get home to England and something will have befallen Susannah, like a new husband or an illness, and then he'll be able to find Olivia WHO HE CLEARLY HAS A THING FOR and they will live happily ever after in civilization. Or back on the island, if they so desire. Olivia'd be down with that, she said as much. Poor lamb loves that Crusoe.)

B) I somehow managed to lose my crochet hook. I took it to my roommate's room yesterday to start a scarf while I watched "Get Smart" and now it's gone. Which is bad because I want to finish the damn thing. It's also bad because I'm afraid that like, the apartment monster has taken it and I'll never get it back and I've never seen plastic crochet hooks here and I've never ever seen hooks as big as the one my aunt gave me, and I don't want to have to use another one!

B.5) Get Smart was actually pretty good! Spies! Comedy! Anne Hathaway! :)

C) I have:
- a test tomorrow, and then fiesta in Spanish
- a test on Wednesday
- a test on Thursday, then a review session, then a meeting with my professor to go over outlines for two papers I have due the 16th and 18th
- a test on Friday, after which I GO HOME!!!

D) I've been singing the songs from Dr Horrible essentially since I saw it and I actually, like, analyzed the damn movie. I'm clearly a bit nutty.

After running my mouth all summer about how everyone's getting scarves for Christmas, I realized like last week that after finishing Gramma's bigass "lap" blanket that wound up being about the size of my double bed and using almost two two pounds of yarn (!!!) I hadn't really crocheted anything. So now I have to speed my ass up and I think I'm getting calluses from yarn and my crochet hook.

I rue the day I learned that I was crafty.