How much have I been procrastinating this week?

This Much:



That's right, remember last week when the back of my climbing vines pullover was only 1.5 inches... Well, now I'm almost done with the back, and it's all thanks to the massive number of projects for school I have hanging over my head. Every time I think about how much work I'm going to have to do to get the 4 different papers that are due in the next two weeks done I pick up my knitting. While it doesn't do much to solve the problem it has kept me from jumping off the nearly-completed College Ave. bridge. If you're wondering how I've been able to knit on this sweater when last week I posed a picture of my needles broken in several places, the answer is simple--Superglue and nail polish. They're by no means perfect and my yarn snags just a little every row but at least I can knit. Can you see the chip?



I ordered some new needles on the 12th from Knitpicks but hit a SNAFU. They printed the shipping label without my street address, only my apartment number. Of course the post office couldn't deliver the package so I called them and explained the problem. The first customer service person I talked to was a huge jerk and insisted that I must have forgotten to put my address in. I explained that their site remembers my address and that for my past 5 orders I've used the exact same address and there has never been a problem until now. She continued to insist that the problem MUST have come from my end but that she would "go ahead" and resend the package. I was so miffed at being talked down to as if I have never mailed a package and have absolutely no ideas about the intricacies of addresses. So a few days later I still haven't gotten any info about my new package and I call back. This time I get a very helpful woman who told me that lately they have been having problems when customers use the auto-fill function on the address screen. She said that the previous customer service rep. had "noted the problem" but hadn't actually initiated a new order, so if I hadn't called back I never would have gotten my package. Now I can see the new order on line and everything seems to have been corrected. I wish I had gotten the names of the two women I spoke to so that I could let Knitpicks know that one was fantastic and the other very rude.

I've been pretty focused on the Climbing Vines so the progress on my other two projects is pretty minuscule. If I showed you new pictures you'd think they were the same ones as last week.

Now I really MUST stop knitting and get to work on those 4(!) papers... If anyone knows why Ghana turned to military rule after independence while Senegal became a One-Party State, I'd love to hear it...