I want to be *well*!!

( snip of excessive whining regarding feeling like crap. )

Knitting news: I've gotten the baby sweater & hat set almost completed. Just need to knit the second side of the hat, and sew it all up, then figure out how to do some sort of decorative edging. The whole thing is supposed to be crocheted together with a contrast yarn, but I started doing that, and it looked like a mess. I might be able to do that more neatly once it's sewn together though. Also finished two more afghan squares for the wedding gift (which is good, because I learned Sunday that the wedding is in August, not October as I thought previously.)
The garter stitch chenille scarf I started for me is on hold because I've got so much else going on. I also am working on a tote bag from Stitch n' Bitch out of the Rowan spun I got on the clearance shelf at the yarn shop a couple of weeks ago. I need to go back there to get a needle for the cotton tank I'm supposed to be working on, and to see if they have the silk yarn for the other sleeveless sweater I want to do. I'm afraid to go in though, because I have no control at all in there.

Two weeks from now starts my next class: Algorithm Analysis. I looked over the syllabus yesterday, and it doesn't look to be nearly as hard as the first two programming classes I took. There's one fewer programming assignment, and we get lots more time to work on them. This is good, as next week also starts my foray into dekhockey. That's pronounced "deck hockey" not "deek hockey" no matter how it looks. Should be interesting, as I have little to no athletic inclination. Fun.

I also want it to be warm, both indoors and out. At least it's not raining today, but my floor here at work is about 60 degrees. Thankfully, I anticipated this, and am wearing a wool cardigan.

Now it's time to venture downstairs to find some lunch. I'm starving. This is a good sign.

A little ettiquette question....

OK. Here's a little thing I've been mulling over. It's not a big thing, but I don't make enough polls, so here we go.

The situation: There's a loosely organized national "movement" (for lack of a better term) known as Stitch n' Bitch where those who knit gather in a particular coffeehouse/whatever in their city and sit around and knit, crochet or otherwise craft in a group setting. I was excited to find a group in Columbus on their list, so last week, I joined the associated yahoo group.

Well, it turns out that they don't actually meet in C-bus, but in Pickerington. I live downtown. I work downtown. I go to school downtown. To me, Pickerington is not Columbus. It's probably a 30-45 minute drive from where I live, depending on traffic (which is notoriously bad in that area). They meet at 7 pm, so I could probably just barely make it there after work.

Now, I'll admit to having a chip on my shoulder about the superiority of urban areas over suburban ones, but aside from that, it would be ridiculously inconvenient for me to try to get to this group's meetings. I've also not found that I "click" with the rest of the group from the email list. I very well might scare them. So the logical solution, since I haven't found any other groups closer to me, is to start my own. But the ettiquette of that? Do I "ask" them? Do I just do it? Would announcing it on their list be rude? These are the questions I put to you, my faithful reader:

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