So this is a non-knitting post. Because there has been very little knitting.

Mostly, there has been the three Ps: procrastinating, panicking, and (senior) project.

Not to mention, more job applications than I want to think about it (memo to intelligence community: Please hire me) and my non-school classes, currently just spanish, but arabic starts this week. I’m ridiculously excited for it.

Side note: It’s very weird to switch dialects when learning a language. My elementary school had a program where you took spanish classes from kindergarten through fifth grade. Our teachers were Senora Martinez and Senora Martinez–they were sisters-in-law and although I don’t believe either were actually from there, they had learned spanish in Mexico. I also took one year of spanish in 6th grade, but my teacher was creepy (Really creepy, I’m actually pretty sure he was a pedophile) so I quit.

Anyway, I’m taking spanish again, through Global Languages at GWU (which is a GREAT program, with free and low cost language classes taught by native speakers, and everyone should check it out) and the girl who’s teaching the class is (I think) from Spain, and so some of the pronunciations are different. The big thing is pronouncing a soft c. I’d always pronounced as somewhere between and s and a z, but she sort of lisps it, so it sounds like a cross between a th and a z. I’m getting used to it, but it’s definitely hard at first.

Ok. Language note over.

The purpose of this post, actually, was how dismayed I was at this past week’s Criminal Minds! I taped it, because it’s on against Lost, and so I was watching it yesterday as I procrastinated and sewed together lots of catnip cigars for the various cats in my life.

I couldn’t believe the ending–Elle! How could you?–and I was very sad to find out that Lola Glaudini is indeed leaving the show. Elle and JJ are, predictably, my favorite characters and it will be so sad to have no more Elle.

I don’t know anything about the actress replacing her, I do know that Portia di Rossi and Jamie Luner were considered for the role. I’m sad Portia turned it down, but glad Luner didn’t get it–I didn’t like her at all on Profiler, but that could just be because the show fell apart without Ally Walker. I mean, pretty much the entire show was based on Sam and Jack stalking her, since the Profiling was about as unrealistic as it gets (and yet was one of the things that got me started reading about actual profiling).

Anyhow, apparently Paget Brewster is taking the role. I haven’t seen her in anything–and I’m actually wondering if that info is correct. I figured they were setting up the Detective from this last ep to take the spot–I don’t remember who played her, but it wasn’t Paget Brewster. So maybe I’m wrong? Anyone know?

Now that I’ve bored you all with that, I’m off to knitting group, where actual knitting will commence, and then I can come back and do more senior project work. Bah.