Well, it's been a good-news-bad-news day.

The one piece of good news is that my student and I have a poster - or at least a good first draft (as opposed to an Anne-Lamotte-endorsed-style-of-first-draft) of the poster.

The bad news is that's ALL we got done, between my fighting with the slidemaker and trying to do damage control about the weekend trip.

And I had one moment of You Know You're A Knitter When: as we worked on the poster, we had to convert measurements that we had in the English system into metrics. At one point, one of the measurements was 4". Without even thinking "2.54 cm = 1 inch" I said "Oh, that's 10 centimeters."

Know how I know that?

Can you guess?

It's the dimensions of the standard gauge swatch! And Euro yarns - or at least, the more U.S. oriented ones - always have 4"/10cm written on there next to the gauge. (The less U.S. oriented ones just have 10cm).

The other bad news is that I'm flat exhausted. And I have to call people tonight about this trip. I HATE calling people on the phone, especially with news like this.