What just happened?

Holy Cow! I sure wasn't expecting this. Instead of working on my many knitting wip's, or even doing my schoolwork, for that matter, I somehow managed to crochet a huge, fringed monstrosity of a shawl (by the way, did anyone know how much yarn a fringe uses up? It's crazy). This was not on my to-do list and I feel kind of guilty about it, both on behalf of my wip's and my neglegted thesis, but I really like the shawl. I just had some black yarn left over from other projects (so it's all black worsted weight wool, but different dye lots, and even different brands. Yikes!), and I all of a sudden had this 'I sooo need a huge black shawl with a fringe right now' moment. It's the Sweet-Pea shawl from the Stitch n' Bitch crochet book. I haven't blocked it yet, so it's going to become even huger, but here you have a photo, taken with my trusty photobooth, of a detail of the shawl and me trying to convey by my expression how perplexing I find this development:



I'm still having camera problems, as you can perhaps infer from my continued use of photobooth, but Bonnie left me a helpful comment suggesting that I download the softwear for my camera. Thank you Bonnie! I´m such a technodolt that options such as downloading a program I need have to be pointed out to me. And I call myself a student of the media. Sheesh.
Anyways, when I go home on March 19, I have every intention of getting some of my more techno-savvy Icelandic friends to give me tutorials on how to make my blog look a bit cooler, add links inside the posts instead of just in the sidebar and, you know, generally cool stuff like that. I swear on a bunch of Icelandic sheep that one day I shall have a cool blog that includes more than just photobooth pictures!
Until I go home I have kind of a full plate, however. Tomorrow my lovely boyfriend is coming for a four-day visit. He currently lives in Cambridge (England), and I'm here in Copenhagen, and I gotta tell you, I cannot reccommend this long-distance thing. We'd lived together for four years prior to this winter of long-distance love, so just seeing each other for a few days every couple of months is definately a change of pace for us. Still, it could totally be alot worse. The flight between London and Copenhagen is only an hour and a half, and if we book in advance we can get tickets pretty cheap. I miss him sooo much, and am positively giddy about his visit. We both have tons of work to do, but we'll have fun just hanging out, cooking good food and walking around beautiful Copenhagen (not snowy anymore!). Then a couple of days after the departure of boyfriend the arrival of mom will take place. Yep, my mom is coming to visit me for 12 action-packed days, and will then accompany me back to Iceland. I'm also ridiculously exited about this visit, mom is such fun to hang out with. We'll go to museums, go shopping, go to the movies, drink beer. And because, like me and boyfriend, mom is also a graduate student, I don't even have to worry about her disturbing my work too much, because she´s bringing a ton of her own work with her. So both of these visits will be well-balanced work/play equations. Hooray for family!
I will try to blog some, but probably won't much. But will try.