I was knitting and watching TV last night when I had a total light bulb moment... I'd forgotten Heroes from my list of Fav TV shows.

OMG how did I manage that, Heroes is the coolest thing on the box right now and we're only one week behind the US epps.

The characters of Heroes are who we all want to be, people with mutant type powers struggling to figure out what their place is in the grand scheme of things. This is another show with a huge cast, all of whom are so great, and some that have the coolest powers ever! Like BSG it does a fantastic job of melding genres, it has a kind of SciFi theme but it also captures drama suspense and comedy with cliffhangers all the time! Usually by the end of the Epp you're like OMG what happened WHAT HAPPENED!!

from Wikipedia:

"The series begins as a disparate group of people gradually become aware that they have special abilities. Events illustrate their reactions to these powers, and how the discovery affects their personal and professional lives. At the same time, several ordinary individuals are investigating the origins and extent of these abilities. Mohinder Suresh, a geneticist, continues his father's research into the biological source of the change, while Noah Bennet represents a secret organization known only as "The Company".
While coping, each of the characters is drawn - willingly or not - into the Company's conspiracy to control superpowered people, and into a race to stop an explosion from destroying New York City and millions of its inhabitants. Throughout the season, the predatory stalkings of the serial killer Sylar and continued manipulations from casino-owner and mobster Mr. Linderman affect the characters directly and indirectly. The characters' individual stories, Peter Petrelli's abilities, his brother Nathan's campaign for Congress, Claire Bennet's search for her biological parents, Hiro Nakamura's adventurous journeys and the precognitive visions of Isaac Mendez all culminate in a climactic meeting of the characters at Kirby Plaza in New York."

On more usual knitting news, I'm STILL working on the Cathay bolero. I got 3/4 of the way through my first sleeve when I posted and realised that I know nothing about how to seam pieces of knitting together. So I searched this wide world web and found some great articles on how to seam the tops of shoulders and how to set in sleeves. It was then that I knew I'd probably done the right thing in avoiding this stuff in the past, during my travels someone on a blog mentioned that they preferred to seam up the garment then pick up stitches for the sleeves and do them in the round. That totally made sense to me and I've picked up stitches for sleeves on top down garments before, where as how to put that weirdly shaped sleeve top into the just as weirdly shaped arm hole just wasn't clicking for me.

So right now I've seamed up one side of the shrug, picked up the sleeve stitches around the armhole and am about two or three inches into knitting the sleeve in the round with 5 double pointed needles... aka DPN's. NOW I'm not sure if I should do long sleeves or short sleeves, short is appealing because were coming into summer PLUS it wouldn't take as long and I wouldn't have to do many (if any) decreases. Being that I'm SO OVER knitting this damn thing now I think I've just convinced myself to do short sleeves!

I don't have any photo's of it because photographing black knitting is about as exciting as photographing wall paper.