Yarn Pancake

My yarn collapsed. Just died. It's been sagging for a while, but until recently it still had a little structure to it. Now it is little more than a puddle of string. I suppose this is one of the hazards of working from the center of a ball of yarn.

I've also decided that I want to incorporate a twisted rib into the hat , possibly from either this pattern, or this pattern. I'm hoping this will have the illusion of a vertical garter stitch. I'm am slightly worried about the gauge of all this, but I'm sure I can figure it out.

I'm none too pleased with my first set of scores this semester. In one class, the teacher goes through his presentation so fast you can't write everything down. In another, the book I ordered never came in and the class itself is really difficult anyway. And the last class was a bad combo of luck and timing. Ironically, I got the same score in all three classes. I have another test coming up this Friday. I want to do better, but part of me wonders about the pattern I've made. I will have to work my butt off the rest of the semester to undo this no-so-good start.

Oh, and one of my triops disappeared over the weekend. My roommate said the bigger one ate it. But that's not unusual.