more fall knitting

 Still working on the Halloween color dishcloth, but soon I want to start a hat of this:

This was an impulse purchase at JoAnn's. Normally that brown/gold/orange color would not be my choice for a hat, but I just really liked this one. (I think I'm longing for fall). It's a bulky weight so most of the hat patterns I had would not suit. But apparently Green Mountain Spinnery has made some of their patterns free online, and there's a really nice bulky-weight hat called the Gathering Hat available on their website, which I will use for it. 

Other than that, just a long and tough week - I had to deal with a slightly-demanding person today, and I'm trying to set aside at least an hour a day to read and plan the systematic botany course, so I'm busier at work than I am sometimes, and I just find the kind of head-work like class planning more tiring than I once did.