I finished my goal for today; ten plots sorted (that's a total of 30 bags, each containing the vegetation within a 25 cm by 25 cm sample. Thankfully some of the bags were low in diversity.) I have fifteen bags (five plots) remaining; I hope to do those tomorrow morning. If I do, then I'm going home, to clean house, and to begin to consider packing.

A couple of things I've been working on:

first, I call this "pretty but splitty".



It's a mistake-rib scarf I began out of Lion Brand Landscapes. I love the colors in the yarn but it's kind of a pain to work with. It's very softly spun and it's really really really easy to split and catch part of one stitch in with another if you don't pay close attention. (Also, with the soft-spin, I suspect it will pill like a mother).

Secondly, the completed Zing shawl, with the appropriate clothing for it (I couldn't stand to photograph it last night over my grotty old sweatshirt that I'd been wearing to sort bags in so I actually changed into the dress - which, incidentally, I made.)

My hair is NOT as red as it looks in the picture. (Would that it were, except I'm not into hair-maintenance enough to consider coloring it).



I've also been picking away at Clapotis - it was my "proctoring exams" project. (Sadly, no one even bothered to ask me what I was making). I also picked up the Interlacements socks again last night, and watched half of the Patrick Stewart version of "A Christmas Carol" (which is a really wonderful version and probably my favorite that I've seen, but I didn't have the energy to watch the whole thing through to 10 or past). I'm midway through the heel-flap on the second sock; I hope to have these done before I leave.

Oh, and my Christmas present to myself arrived yesterday. If you go here and scroll down to the third one, you can see the reproduction of it. (I bought the original, uh-huh. If the writer ever becomes famous, I can have the snob-appeal of showing the framed strip to my friends and say "I thought he was good waaaaaay back in 2004. And even if he doesn't become famous, I really love that particular strip, probably because I both love stitch-patterns AND have a keen appreciation of metaphysics. And it makes me happy to have it. Knitting, yay!)