I just finished hand spinning ON A DROP SPINDLE a bazillion yards of bamboo singles that were supposed to become a pair of socks. Then, like the moron that I am, I took it off the niddy-noddy and promptly dropped it, where the cat decided it was a toy. By the time I got it back, it was more like a wad of bamboo singles.

At this point, I’m on day two of The Great Untangle, and it’s seriously crossed my mind just to make it the topper on some sort of demented hat. What a waste of some perfectly nice black and white bamboo.

And of course, the more I think about bamboo, the more I think about this:

auuuuuuuugh!

I’ve hit one of those occasional life places where I just don’t feel like I have a set path to follow to get done all that needs to be done. We’re only a week into the semester, and I’m freaking out about finishing my thesis in time, I’m pretty sure I’m going to be late on a knitting project I promised would be finished, and I’m absolutely unsure which (if either) derby team I’m going to be on, as I’ve been told basically that my fat ass is going to be a problem, because I can’t get it moving fast enough. Add to that the fact that I just saw a picture of myself in a swimsuit from over the summer, and I really just sort of want to secede from life right now and study the fine art of anorexia.

I’m also iffy on whether i’m going to bother to go to DC for hockey camp, as everyone seems to have abandoned that but me, and god forbid I have any idea what kind of future job I’m looking at.

In short, this is a horrible no good very bad night. Blah.

My last few days in bullet points:

• It’s sick how much I’m contemplating renaming my thesis “Who Taught You To Live Like That?: Female Fans and Ice Hockey” just for the line in the song that says “since I wrote the thesis/I think i know better than you/ who taught you to live like that?” It also doesn’t hurt that I get to make liberal use of MVP in the chapter I’m writing now. (psst: \”Who Taught You To Live Like That?\” by Sloan (aka the MVP theme))
• Wordpress-slash-the entire Wordpressy world doesn’t seem to make/have/know of a theme that does what I want forTHTM. Really, is ghosted blog/fixed background/three column/header image/widget capable so much to ask for?
• Have ungrounded and completely unreasonable crush on 16 year old. AUGH. I will not lust after jailbait coworkers, I will not lust after jailbait coworkers, I will not lust after jailbait coworkers.
• Should really start packing for Le Big Move. Of course, every day but today it’s been 91 and humid, so I haven’t really wanted to touch anything. Today, well, I got wrapped up into a bunch of random stuff. I’m debating painting one wall of the room I’m moving into some crazy color like bright teal, so it’s not overwhelming but there’s a little extra color in there somewhere.
• Freebase interviewed me about their website design to the tune of a $40 amazon gift certificate. Now I’m trying to figure out what I can do with Freebase, as it actually seems to be a really cool concept. I’m also trying to figure out what to do with my $40 OMG. The evil nasty part of me is whispering “get more PSP games!” but the sane logical part is saying “buy new headphones, as yours are busted on one side!” Bah, logic.
• It’s peach and cherry season finally! Although our grapes are meh and our apples are bland and the salmon on this coast sucks, they can grow some damn fine peaches on this side of the Might Mississip. Obviously, I must marry an ethnic hockey playing llama rancher with a peach farm.