Are we ready to rumble?

I'm housesitting for a professor, so sorry I don't have pics uploaded of the progress. I've got the hem facing stitches finished (they were PAINFUL) and am up to row 8 of chart A. I'll try to post pics by Thursday.

We had our Littleton Meetup tonight, and I met Kim. Instantly envious of her, b/c she's finished Rogue, but was oh so glad to meet her...someone who could hold my hand as I braved the scary charts of Rogue. Stacey, Michelle, and I met early for some dinner, then met up with Kim, Tamara, Shirley, Linda, and a few other ladies for our monthly knit group. Stacey's mom popped in for a few minutes, and then there were FOUR of us working on Rogue.

I've also been having fun gathering stuff for the last SP5 package... so much stuff I want to give! So little time, and $$$.

Last, I do need to chat about the ANONYMOUS comment about the ethics test. You know it was a JOKE, right? *I* found the joke amusing. If you didn't, fine. My blog is NOT the news. I don't have to be impartial. Especially about a president I didn't vote for in either election. (umm...anyone think ANONYMOUS will be coming back after this post?)

Dear readers, let us clear up something here and now. I am a leftie. Both handed wise, and politically. If'n you care to take a peek over on the left side of my blog, you'll see that I am the proud alum of a LIBERAL college, where there's the largest annual gathering in support of legalizing marijuana, Hash Bash and where the end of the academic year is celebrated by running the Naked Mile? I also have an ALLY OF QUEER KNITS logo on my page, and support the right of the GLBTQ population to have civil/legal unions when/if they're lucky enough to find someone with which they would like to spend the rest of their lives, or not. If I haven't already offended you even more, then let me say that I am ASIAN, my area of study focuses on multicultural counseling and social justice, and oh yes, I'm nice to animals. I don't usually post controversial stuff on here, but the person is political.

(hmm. prize to the person who guesses how many bloglines subscribers I'll lose after this post)...FYI, I have 70 as of tonight. How about a skein of Koigu to the winner?
We'll end the contest at this time next week (Tuesday evening, MST). Please leave your guess in my comments... oh. and um, just to practice reframing stuff, i suppose I should also mention that perhaps subscriptions will go up (yeah, right) so you can guess either + or -.

back to knitting content. The scarf for the scarf exchange goes along slowly, b/c it's straight stockinette after the beads. Cathi had some suggestions for a different cast on, which I'll try on the second half. We've got minute progress on the sock for Sock pal-2-za, not even worthy of a picture.

I'll leave everyone with a pic of Roman, pushing the cube at the University of Michigan.