Okay, I admit to having little-to-no sympathy for the Runaway Bride (tm), but if you do, you can knit a Solidarity! With! Jen! blanket from this pattern here.

Little to no sympathy, especially after the day I had yesterday, when there were approximately fifteen times I would have liked to have run away (the last being while held "captive" by a slow checker at the Wal-Mart who had to tell me the story of her new puppy's breaking its leg. I try to be a compassionate person, but there are certain things about which I just cannot care).

Yeah, I know, I'm being snarky about this. But I'm reeeeeeaaaaaally tired of it being all over the news, and when I think about some of the crap I face in my everyday life, a big hairy wedding really doesn't look like that scary of an option. Not saying I'd WANT one, but I'm saying that after dealing with one of the Services I dealt with yesterday on my campus, wrangling 14 bridesmaids (even 14 bridesmaids all in the throes of PMS) would be EASY.

And you know, this is another reason why I like knitting, gardening, quilting, cooking, field research, etc.: People are unpredictable and often disappoint me. I find most human interaction kind of exhausting. But when I'm working with "stuff," I know its properties. I know what it will do. If it disappoints me, it's because I've made some kind of mistake or because I tried to make it do something it is not designed to do.