5:45 am: feed Kayo

6:00 am: report to sweatshop

8:00 am: released from sweatshop to eat breakfast, clean kitchen, and listen to Car Talk.  Discover entire dog’s worth of fur under Hoosier-esque cabinet.  Decline to spin said fur.

9:00 am: return to sweat shop

10:17 am: blow circuit by attempting to iron while air conditioner is running.  Unplug AC unit, reset circuit breaker, and gain renewed insight in the term “sweatshop”

12:00 pm: lunch break

12:30 pm: furloughed from sweatshop to mail package to Cassie.  Curse self repeatedly for neglecting to bring knitting.

12:40 pm: attempt to use Carnivale-esque Avatar skills to force two very slow, clearly incompetent patrons out of the way.

12:48 pm: failing that, attempt to kill a yak at 40 paces with only my mind-bullets.  Lacking mind-bullets, yak, and, apparently, avatar-ness, recite Irish in head, trying very hard not to recite Irish out loud.

1:20 pm: discover Carnivale DVD in mailbox.  Rearrange all plans to watch final two episodes of Carnivale Season Two.  Weave and lazily hand-sew two necklines during episodes

1:45 pm: start laundry

2:45 pm: curse HBO for canceling the Best. Show. Ever.

3:00 pm: introduce Scott to my new invention, a Marconi, which is what I’m calling a Negroni made with vodka

3:05 pm: listen to Scott declare that a Marconi is the most terrible drink he’s ever imagined, and attempt to explain enjoying the taste of Campari, just this one way.  Contemplate the dangers of drinking two Marconis in a row.

3:06 pm: put Scott’s Marconi in the freezer.  Open bottle of Sprudel instead.  Start watching Carnivale bonus material.  Continue with non-machine sewing tasks.

5:30 pm: attempt to account for disappearance of day, and also for blazing inferno outside.  get back to sweatshop

6:30 pm: venture out to Todai, strangely terrifying new sushi bar.  Decide that hours of sweatshop labor do not prepare one to arm wrestle determined patrons over grilled jumbo shrimp.

8:30 pm: return to sweatshop.  Use Alton Brown as an excuse to avoid sewing machine and stick to hand work.

9:30 pm: panic that not enough machine work has been done.  Blog as avoidance technique.

9:54 pm: return to sweatshop before evil boss finds me slacking

Accomplishments:

• One clean kitchen
• 38″ of 4″ wide weaving
• 6 garments completely constructed and ready for hand-finishing
• 20 garments partially constructed
• 2 garments mended
• 1 gift mailed
• All 2006 fabric purchases recorded in ledger
• Two very curious new cats  successfully kept free of iron burns, pin sticks, or other sweatshop related injuries.  Stitcher denies all responsibility for any injuries said cats impart to each other.

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