hunk of monkey love

long time no post, eh? in the past weeks i felt as though i'd reached my saturation point when it comes to talking / writing about knitting. as a blogger, i began to feel somewhat pigeonholed. while i still love to knit, there are more than enough people writing about it and there are plenty of other things that i would enjoy blogging about, but would anyone tune in? in order for to me be feel inspired to show up here and occasionally write about knitting, i think i'll need to spread my wings a bit and write about some of my other passions - food, film, fashion, literature, mid-century modern design, overpriced footwear, handsome men with foreign accents, and trash tv. my new obsession, and certainly not trash tv, but definitely trashy in a good way is the british show Shameless. i think it's maybe the 4th best show ever made for television (following The Wire, Six Feet Under, and Homicide.) i just watched back to back episodes of season 1 and i can't believe how brilliant it is. i also can't believe that it's now in it's 5th season and in america you can only get season 1 on dvd! i am unreasonably upset about this. what the hell will i watch now? counting the days until the return of Lost. oh, i have to say that the most recent episode of The Office was so good that it hurt. the discomfort was palpable. during my visceral television watching i finished Signe's pillow. this was my contribution to our hand made swap. i received this super cool hunk of monkey love in exchange. at the moment, he's calling himself Neville. what else? i'm about 60% through a Raspy that i recently cast on for. not sure how i feel about this pullover, but i'm determined to see it through. oh, and my Justina is a mess. it completely falls off me now. i'll need to take out the top waistband and a) reduce the number of stitches significantly and b) knit it in a rib in order to make it fit. yeah. i'm sure that will happen. (she says with a hint of sarcasm.)