Just in case it was unclear, that is Boh’s bone. Let’s move on to my sweater:
I can already tell that this sleeve is going to move much faster. With the right sleeve, I was trying it on after every couple decrease rows (see my modifications in an earlier post) in order to find a sleeve circumference that worked for me. With the left sleeve, I know to work down to 44 st and then work even until the wrist, where I did a few more decrease rows and then the basketweave cuff. I’m not the only one around here who is excited about 28thirty!
Remember my Sunday Market Shawl? I dug it out this week because I had a few lectures to attend, and I am almost through the first ball of yarn.
I’ve been rather appalled at the disrespect for the person at the front of the room at the larger events and talks I’ve attended this year, and I certainly don’t want to be lumped into the category of undergrads who stay only long enough to write a response, or who text and facebook/watch movies through most of a talk, only to make lots of noise while leaving during the already harder-to-hear Q&A. I understand that sometimes people need to leave early, and if you’re thoughtful about it, there’s absolutely no problem. It is this consumption mentality, the idea that these opportunities are bought and sold and thus devoid of the need for basic courtesies, that has been driving me nuts lately.
ETA: There are lots of thoughtful, engaged, respectful undergrads here, and I do not mean to suggest that the behavior I’m responding to is universal. I’m ranting about the handful who seem to think that basic courtesies do not apply in university lecture halls. (Hey, you! You’re making your friends look bad!)
I write all this to say that I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to knit at a lecture, and I’ve settled on sitting further back in the room, bringing only mindless knitting, and making an effort to connect to the speaker through eye contact, to make it clear to him/her that my hands are not distracting me from the content. So far, this feels like a reasonable approach.
One last photo:
This guy is paying attention!
Hope you have a great weekend, and that spring weather makes an appearance wherever you are.
barefoot rooster 
we live in an age of entitlement. and the entitlement douche bags think they world revolves around them.
Ugh, it’s not just undergrads, it’s EVERYONE! Neill and I go to the symphony, ballet, and such things somewhat often and without fail there is always some idiot around us making noise and being completely disrespectful. And I’m not talking about rustling of papers or clearing of throats here. I don’t know when it became ok to TALK at the symphony, but tons of people do it. Or how about whipping out a Blackberry with GIANT BRIGHT SCREEN in a dark theater during a ballet performance and reading your email, thus blinding/distracting everyone around you? It’s rude to the performers, and it’s rude to everyone else who paid for a seat and who actually wants to enjoy the performance. @&$(! Makes me crazy.
Ok, end rant. :)