WNBP: Because I Can

Yup.  It's Wednesday.  Let's all sit back and enjoy the opportunity to not make any real sense or adhere to rules of continuity.  Bullet points rule!!!

*For any other fans of Cornelia Funke, author of the popular Inkheart and Inkspell, may I make a recommendation?  I hadn't read any of her earlier stuff and happened to find a copy of The Thief Lord while I was perusing the shelves of the used bookstore during my monthly Treat The Sheep To New Books trip.  It's quite charming!

*Yes.  It snowed again today.  But only a little.  And then it rained.  This is a net loss of snow.  I'm on board with that.  

*Especially when it isn't the slippery kind of rain or snow that makes me all clenchy while I'm driving.  

*Rumors are flying all over my school to the effect that one of the teachers is being transferred to the Middle School next year.  I am enjoying the sense of panic that is filtering from classroom to classroom.  For those who missed it, that teacher is me.  I am disturbingly pleased by the sense of power that comes from knowing what others do not.  

*Budget cut years are rough.  You have to find your entertainment where you can.

*Wait until they find out that the middle school position may be of the part time variety.  There will be mass hyperventilation.  It would be in poor taste for me to find that entertaining, so I shall assume a somber sort of face and pass out paper bags for the hyperventilators.  

*Also for those who missed it, I volunteered to be the one to take the pay cut.  There are reasons for this.  That's another story for another day.  For now, I am something of a hero in the eyes of several administrative types who are not sleeping these days over the lack of incoming funds.  My sacrifice may not be needed.  But, if called, I shall serve.

*I have done something vile and unspeakable to my wrist.

*That is an exaggeration.  It is tingly and sort of clicky.  I kept thinking I had an extra pulse while I was doing bench presses during the workout.  It was really more of a twitch.

*This means that I get to wear the unnecessarily large and ostentatious wrist brace to school tomorrow and soak up all that sweet, sweet wrist sympathy!

*I am needy that way.  Just be glad you don't have to work with me.  You'd have to talk about my wrist all day.

*New fiber came today!  I'm all a-tingle and not just because of the weird wrist thing.  It's angora bunny fluff from Wooly Wonka!  Joining that exotic fibers club was just about the most fun thing I've ever done for myself!

*Gosh, angora bunnies are soft!  I should get a couple of those...

*The fiber came with the pattern for the Miriam Felton's Persephone Scarf.  The BFK is quite flattered by this.

*Her real name is Persephone.

*I am not knitting her a scarf.

*Don't tell her that.  She thinks that she is the daughter of a Greek goddess and that scarves are named for her on a regular basis.  Since we cut back on the Greenies portions, she has so little about which to be happy.  Let's give her this, OK?

*She is as soft as an angora bunny, but I don't think she would like to have one as a pet.  I may need to rethink the bunny plan, now that I think of it.

*I am going to knit this scarf, though.  Someday...

*The other thing I like about Wednesday is that it is the last workout day of the week.  I'm up to 75 minutes on the little exercise bike.  This is probably why my wrist hurts.

*Shut up.  It could, too, be why my wrist hurts.  The fact that I do not use my wrists at all when on my little fitness pedaler has nothing whatsoever to do with the potential for grievous wrist injury.  The body is a system.  It's all connected.  Sort of.

*Is anyone else counting the days until next week when the Easter candy goes on sale?  I have finished all my half-priced Valentine's Day candy and am in need of a sugar fix.  Is it just me?

Candy, books, budget cuts and fiber!  I do believe I've covered all that should be covered in a good, knitting-themed blog post.  I even included a little of the wrist clicking, just for good measure.  But, I'm tapped out now and ready for some prime time TV viewing.  Enjoy your Wednesday, your Thursday and any days after that of your choosing!  

SA