Working on the "Materials and Methods" section of the proposal.

Last night, I dug out the (long-stalled) beaded-rib Regia socks (these are made from a pastel variegated, not a self-patterning Regia yarn) and knit on them for a while. Tried to watch "Private Lives of Pompeii" but found the format too annoying (switching between set-pieces of "lives" in Pompeii - I couldn't tell if they were based on writing of the time or made out of whole cloth - and the "authorities" speaking about the history of the area. It was like "history for people who only like to watch reality shows." ugh.)

I tell you, if they keep larding the television schedule with "reality" programming, or shows that try to ape "reality" programming, I'm going to shoot my tv. I get enough of "reality" during the day, when I come home I want something "unreal". I don't want to hear people squabbling over the last bit of rat meat or scheming of how they are going to tempt that beautiful person into sleeping with them.

The only "reality-type" shows I like are the ones where they redecorate someone's house, and even then, there's a limit to how much I can watch.