Ahhh, Yarn Abuse, the knit blog equivalent of soma.

There's just no strife these days. No enjoyment of things either. None of the usual inspiration I'm usually overflowing with. Work? Lately it's been pretty easy. Boyfriend? Uh...he reads this. Sigh. My knitting is blah too, but that's my own fault. B(luh)eige yarn, knit in the round. Yaaaaaaaawn. No, really, I did just yawn there.

I've reached a kind of deadly boredom. No matter how hard I try, nothing is interesting, many things are at the least mildly offensive, everything takes too long, my eyes are in a constant state of rolling back in my head and it seems as though I am interrupted every 2 minutes with something irritating that I shouldn't have to deal with. It's all very ugh. I lose patience very quickly, and in writing this last paragraph I have managed to just do so with myself. You can imagine that this is not a pleasant state to be in.

Hopefully this is just some sort of weird Seasonal Affected Syndrome mixed with Holiday Blues that time will fix. Because seriously, swinging from I Am So Bored to BITCH MOVE OR I WILL BEAT YOU RETARDED is kind of creepy and un-fun.

And also, boyfriends and coworkers tend to notice when you are rolling your eyes at them and repeating what they just said in a high-pitched voice. Then they don't buy you Christmas presents.

Knitting progress: Shitty.

Okay, leave-work-early-for-the-holiday email, where are you hiding? Why have you not come to me yet? Obviously, you should be in my inbox by now. I do not understand why you think this is such a game. It is not. I am not amused by your antics. HELLO I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE. WHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU ARE SO DEAD.

Wait. I'm sorry, little email. I lost my temper. Just...stop hiding from me, ok? The other division actually left already. At noon. It is now 1:37. Does this seem fair? That I should still be sitting here, while other divisions are leaving to enjoy turkey and pie? PIE?! Where is my pie? I have no pie.

Please! This isn't funny anymore! Where are you!? Where are youuuuuuuu I want to leeeeeeeeeeeeeave

Just a quick post to let you all know there is nothing interesting going on in my life. Boy, aren't you glad you took the time to come here and read that?

Ok, I will try to make it up to you. I started a sweater. I've been kind of "meh" on all the knitting in all the world lately. This horrible Socktobermonth came. There were all these feet in my Bloglines. No inspiration there. No knitting publications have been released with anything I cared for in them. Just kind of "meh."

So I decided to knit up a Zimmerman sweater. A while back, brooklyntweed made a Zimmerman seamless hybrid sweater, and it was good. Also, it's a lot of delicious stockinette in the round, which fits in perfectly with my pudding brain meh-ness.

Some alterations will be made to the original recipe, as I am shaped like this:

and not like this:

*I love EZ, she is wise and wonderful, but I do not wish to dress exactly like her. Sorry!

**OH, HERE'S ONE FOR YA. So we've been sharing this office space with another division for nearly six months now, and this dickwad just came up here and is all like, "your name is Kim, right?" HELLO, ASS, I've merely been at the FRONT. DESK. this entire time, with such job duties as CALLING YOU. AND TELLING YOU MY NAME. AND SENDING YOU EMAILS. AGAIN WITH MY NAME IN THEM.

When the revolution comes, he will not be spared.

Going to the frog pond.

Double knit scarf made of single spun acrylic yarn I picked up on the cheap in Hong Kong (haggled for, of course). Behold the uneven tension. The craptastic edges. The "almost, not quite" matching up of the yarn character. Goodbye, ugly scarf.

Apropos of nothing, I give you one of my favorite pictures from Thailand. This one is from a pitstop between Pattaya and Bangkok. We bought some fish skin snacks and hung out for a bit.