End-of-weekend Guilt

I should be reading:

from Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams
and
from The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson

but they're so boring!

So that's why I have Sunday guilt. Tomorrow is Monday and I go back to class and I run out of weekend days full of perfectly good reading time. But weekends are also excellent crossword time (just finished two NYT Sunday crosswords from my new desk calendar, the Pomegranate NYT sunday crossword one... gotta catch up with the date) and reading time (still trying to read books I want to read while I'm in school... when will I learn?). So Williams and Jameson are still sitting there, thirty pages of cultural materialism just calling to me, but I prefer Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy so too bad. By the way, this picture is not of me doing a crossword. I don't think I would ever have "ismske" as part of any answer. It's a screenshot from Lost.

Slightly incoherent rambling style of this post is due to two cups of coffee and onset of panic at the realization that half my day is over and my studying has not begun.

Or I could knit...
I got a 365 days of knitting perpetual calendar (no weekdays) for Christmas, and yesterday's was "lace and cables", a combo of a really cool Y-shaped lace pattern and 3x3 cable. I tinked and frogged the stupid thing 3 times yesterday before giving up. It was 11:30 at night and I couldn't get past row 5 of the pattern without losing a stitch (and thereby offsetting the whole pattern by one stitch) or repeating part of the pattern and getting lost. I was watching TV at the time, so I probably looked at the wrong YO and continued from a part of the row that I'd already done. Argh! I love knitting but I was in the mood last night for mindless knitting that I could give only 20% of my attention to and give the other 80% (that makes 100, right?) to season 1 of Battlestar Galactica (Job, my dbf, got me hooked). However, "lace and cables" is not a 20% pattern, at least not the first time I try it. So I'd like to give it an hour or so today and see if I can get something. If it works, I'll post a pic of my swatch. I'm making swatches of each day in the calendar, and then I'll make a funky blanket or something out of them. Right now I'm labelling each swatch with a piece of notecard, but I don't know if I'll keep doing that.

Okay! Enough stalling! I have a plan.
Finish Williams, then knit for an hour, then start Jameson, then go to movie with Job. (We got movie money for Christmas from his lovely aunt Holly. After all, the theory reading isn't due until Tuesday, and my Monday classes don't start until 2:30pm... delay delay delay!