Finals, Day 1

Today was my first final, in Making Math.  After a bit of stress and three hours of knitting, I finished a pair of hyperbolic baby pants.

Three things I learned today:

1. don't procrastinate on starting, or ending, or doing in general.
2. Blackwork embroidery is really cool.  It looks the same on both sides.
3. Here's a joke:
   Three ropes are wandering in the desert and become very thirsty. They arrive in a small frontier town and go to the saloon.  The first rope goes in and asks for something to drink. The bartender says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve your kind here." The first rope leaves and tells his friend what happened.
   The second rope hopes for better luck and tries his hand at it.  He walks in and asks for a drink, but the bartender tells him, "As I told your friend, we don't serve ropes here." The second rope leaves and tells his friends about the incident.
   After two stories, the third rope is pretty sure that she would have to do something a bit different from the other two.  She gets herself tied up and ruffles herself up a bit, and walks into the bar. The bartender says, "What, are you a rope too?" To this, she says, "I'm a frayed knot."