So, I got finished around 3:30 yesterday afternoon for a change. My next class is 11 today.

So I thought: do I take one of the research papers home and write on it, do I stay at work and write on it, or do I go home and knit?

Well, going home and knitting won. (Well, after an obligatory trip to Wal-Mart - I was out of food). That's about the closest to a "mental health day" most college professors take - cutting out early when there's something they really could be doing otherwise.

I finished the fifth cable repeat of the DNA cable, and began the ribbed portion of the scarf. I think, as I bought more yarn than I needed for this, and because I like long scarves (and for me, really, the purpose of having a scarf is to be able to wrap it around your neck to keep your throat warm), I'm going to do more than just 12" of ribbing on it.

besides, the ribbing goes gratifyingly fast after the cabled portion.

What I really need to do, is learn cabling without a needle. (I know people who cable without a needle by blithely dropping the stitches and letting them "hang", but as I more often than not have to practice "knittus interruptus" - the phone rings when I'm in the middle of a row, or I smell dinner boiling over in the pot on the stove, and I have to drop everything, and if I just did the "let the stitches hang" thing, I'd have a mess of ladders).

I do have another obligatory trip this afternoon - to the card shop, to get thank you cards for my treasurer and program chair - they took the Big Scary Legal Document and read it, and decided that I do not "need" to call an emergency meeting (as I was told to do by the Washington office), that we could just go ahead and approve it ex officio or whatever the correct Latin term is.