No, no head crushing.

I did get through the rest of the papers. I think I graded...shall we say, less generously than I sometimes do? Ah well, too bad, so sad. I'm fresh out of sympathy.

I also read through alllllllll the scholarship applications. This one is partly need-based, so there were a lot of distressing hard-luck stories (some of which you wonder if they weren't just perhaps a wee bit more EMPHASIZED than they actually were in real life, you know?)

And I did get in a bit of piano practice. Not a full hour but enough, I guess.

I'm resisting doing any further Ruinous Comfort Spending than what I've already done in the past week.

My box from Superbuzzy did come yesterday. I didn't take time to really examine the "Little Nordic Embroidery" book but it DOES have Moomin in it. No fillyjonks, though, I guess I'll have to enlarge-photocopy the line drawing out of one of my books. And there's a Hemulen, but he's a policeman hemulen, not the botanizing hemulen that I really want on the pillowcase. (So again - I'll have to do a little enlarge-photocopying). But they do have the whole family, plus Snufkin and Sniff and Little My and Too-ticky. And the Groke (why) and the hattifattners and some other less-desirable sorts.

I may also have to draft up a pattern of The Ancestor (from the Midwinter book) to put him on with the family.

Along with the book, I ordered a couple Re-Ment sets. These are incredibly detailed miniature things. There are a series of "themes" and then you get either a "blind box" (don't know what's in it) or you can order a whole case of ten.

One of the lines they had was "Panda Kindergarten" (or so they called it). I bought two:



I'm calling this one Ralphie...because he looks like a Ralphie. A little fat panda slumped on a swing, with bamboo (?) leaves, a rice ball, and a little box that looks like a bento box (the accessories are all separate - tiny, probably easily lost, certainly not for small children).

So since he's Ralphie, these have to be Bart and Lisa:



Yeah, the little hats are supposed to sit on the center of the head but my fingers are clumsy tonight (I hope it's tiredness and not a SYMPTOM. And yes, I watched "House" while reading the scholarship forms). So they're stuck on their ears for now.

I don't have a place for these yet - right now they are sitting next to my computer.