Obsession has its rewards

First, I must thank you all for your lovely comments on my Molly Ringwald. Knitters sure know how to boost a girl's self-esteem!

Next, a story... which admittedly could be construed as gloating, but I hope it won't.

I was pulling an all-nighter (still am in fact) grading undergraduate art history exams in a rush to get final grades submitted tomorrow morning. I took a break to check Ravelry, where rumors were swirling that the Ravelry store could be open as early as this evening, though perhaps only for 30 minutes.

Intrigued, I set up a Ravelry page in the background and refreshed whenever I finished an exam. In a fortuitous moment, I happened to refresh right as Casey posted that the next 8 people to respond would be given trial access to the store to test if the system worked. And uhh, guess who was number 6! Heeee!

Two t-shirts and a set of pint glasses were successfully ordered, and the order was sent to the warehouse and will be shipped tomorrow! Can you tell I'm just a little bit excited?

This is a fantastic reward for schlepping through the wee late-night hours, scribbling points next to assertions that Rembrandt worked in acrylics or Vermeer once made a painting called "Lightface Girl and the Guy in a Hat."

I can't wait to get these exams and a handful of errands taken care of so that I can devote my weekend to the big, exciting project I hinted about recently. Patience and obsession... they seem to be a winning combo lately.