WIP to FO

How do you move from a WIP to a FO? I've been working on my Tiny Green Leaves Haruni, my swap project, and gifts for my sisters and aunt. I've brought out all the things in my list last time and looked at them and played with them and moved them around, but I haven't FO'd the old stuff, nor the new stuff. Why not? What's keeping me from getting from WIP to FO?

Mostly in order to do that, you have to actually knit on the WIP.

Getting distracted by something else and casting that on does not lead to a FO.



And in the back of my mind I'm planning about 8 other shawls... sigh so easily distracted.

Meanwhile I have started listening to my first knitting podcast while I'm at work: Stash and Burn. I've watched a fair number of video podcasts (see my sidebar--I think I've gotten all the ones with two 'casters interacting, which I find the most amusing), but I didn't think it would be worth it to listen to one--yarn and knitting are such visual processes, I didn't think I would get much from just listening. But it's fun. In an amusing, background noise sort of way. Of course according to my standards I must listen through all the archives, in order. I'm a bit neurotic that way.

Speaking of work, I'm quite busy this week--I have to make lovely images for my Friday talk and paper, which require me doing some odd (but easy) calculations and playing with IRAC images from the GOALS survey. In addition, I'm reducing some spectra from the Spitzer Heritage Archive--this is a bit tricky (lots of details), but also there're 50/50 odds that it will be completely unnecessary. Someone else has this data and has been reducing it and is willing to share it with me--but might not get it to me in time to incorporate it into my Friday talk. Oh well; doing this myself is good training and practice. Finally, I am reading 1 paper a day, trying to take a few notes on each of them; I am working on making my paper neater and more organized; I have three new objects to add to my tiny sample, which is a straight forward reduction but time consuming; and I have to start incorporating about 1000 tiny changes into the paper, which is incredibly tedious and time consuming and enormously vital. Changing the introduction to be more tailored; incorporating papers; fixing the reference section; changing the paper code to refer to figures with links; getting rid of and improving images; condensing tables to be most efficient--it is all in the details.

Oh, and did I mention I have data for 2 completely different other projects sitting on my computer that I haven't touched in a while? O____o doomed.