A couple of FO's:

1. My grades for the semester are done and ready to be handed in.

2. I finished the Kool Wool scarf. It took all three skeins of each color; it is close to 7 feet long (I am fairly tall and I like long, long scarves - I probably would have made it longer if I had had more of the yarn).

And: since it would cause a furor on the Knitlist, I'm going to post an "alternative" to the infamous Staples ad here:

this is how a shop - let's call it Earl's Electronics - could advertise itself without showing knitting in a bad light.

A woman comes on screen (Ideally, she would be a young woman, maybe even a Black or Hispanic woman) and says: "I'm an expert knitter" (slide show of gorgeous cabled sweater, Fair Isle sweater, lace shawl). "All of my friends love my knitting. But when I try giving it as gifts to my family, it just doesn't work out. My 16-year old sister is in a phase where she will only wear black" (shot of an angry-looking young girl wearing Industrial-style clothes) "My uncle can't wear sweaters because my aunt insists on keeping the house 80* year-round" (shot of a disappointed-looking man, looking longingly at a cabled sweater but wearing a t-shirt and shorts). "And my nephew - well, I guess he never learned how to properly wash clothes" (Shot of a bewildered looking 20-something guy holding an elaborate Fair Isle sweater he has just taken out of the dryer, which is now about 5 sizes too small for him). "So instead, I'm giving them all gift certificates to Earl's Electronics this year. And I'm knitting for myself." (final shot of woman wearing some kind of knockout gorgeous high-fashion sweater)

just a thought.