Current projects:

Pattern and dress from black and white spiral fabric. This is a test.
Finish purple hippo feet, and assemble the Purple Hippo of Munchy Doom for Heart's Dearest
Lace for the crocheted shawl (yes, I learned crochet. That's what the hippo is.)
Finish the doll
Canvas shopping bags
Knitted mesh shopping bag, cotton
Knitted mesh shopping bag, bags. Because you can turn old plastic shopping bags into a yarn-like substance, make fewer, denser, stronger bags out of them, have fewer bags in the endless pile, and generally be an environmental do-gooder in one fell swoop. Oh, and make stuff too. And probably confuse people on the bus when I make them. Heh. They say it's between 20 and 30 bags cut into inch-wide rounds and looped together to make one shopping bag on a size 13-15 needle, which I think I can manage.

Oh!

And I"ll be in Panama from Thursday until Sunday, meeting my boyfriend's family, who are not from Panama. It's for a wedding, which is not ours (his uncle's. The new aunt is from Panama), and I have a spiffy new passport for the occasion. And a bag to carry it in, which has a monarchy button on it. I doubt this will get us stopped at the gates, though, as it's not really a common symbol, and resembles neither an anarchy symbol nor a V for Vendetta symbol. I think I will need more books, though. That's going to be an incredibly long flight.

I'm stark terrified of meeting his family. Especially because I rather do want to make a good impression, but it seems like generally I do just the opposite.

Though this is a rather amusing way of letting one's family know that the relationship is serious. Not just anyone takes a girlfriend along for a trip to another country.