dodging

Sometimes subbing is great, like yesterday (I got paid to watch Happy Feet, granted it was twice in a row, but I knitted during, and saw some of the members of my "fan club"); sometimes it is not so great, like today, 6 periods of dodgeball for 14 yr olds. It very quickly devolved into the boys (and some girls) throwing the nerf balls at one another's heads regardless of team affiliation or game rules or, you know, trivial things like doing bodily harm. Dodge ball is controlled chaos at the best of times, and this was *not* the best of times. It wasn't bad, just insane.
(Which reminds me of a place we occasionally used to go in college called the B&I mall, which we decided stood for "Bad & Insane" because it was like a flea market on crack- they used to have a live gorilla caged there, but that was before our time.)

At least the weather is back to being fairly spring-like again, so we can plant our starts without too much worry. We missed an awesome plant sale this weekend though, held by the master gardeners. We didn't go because it was advertised as a tomato sale, and we have no need of more tomatoes. Why advertise it thusly if you are selling all sorts of veggie plants for the very reasonable price of .50-$1 each? We could have gotten so many great things! The hubby's boss apparently went both days, but didn't think to call us and say "you have to go!" I even considered going on Sunday anyway to check it out just in case they had anything other than tomatoes, but we never do things I randomly suggest. Sigh. We did go to the beach that day, but it was cool and foggy there. Another instance of glorious and warm in town, cloudy at the beach.


But to include some good news, I finished my sweater and actually wore it to work the other day. I decided to leave off the eyelets and ribbon, so it's a square-necked sweater with cap sleeves now. I actually would have knit the neckline and sleeves longer, but I ran out of yarn. Oh well, it looks good as is, though I have to keep tugging on the sleeves to hide my tank top straps.