I try to impart on my students the importance of citing sources. When someone else's idea, work, research, etc inspired you, you need to give credit where credit is due. When you don't give that credit, to the reader, it appears that you came up with the idea yourself. And while we all have brilliant ideas from time to time, most often our brilliant thoughts were inspired by someone else's brilliant thoughts.

I've been keeping up with the Yarn Harlot and her self-imposed sock of the month club. She began in January and now in November is reporting great success and great new socks. Back in January, I thought... wow this is a great idea. I have a butt load of sock yarn and no plans for it. I should do this too (I'm sure many bloggers and Harlot readers thought the same thing, and I'm sure some followed through). Well, the Spring semester wore me down and I did nothing, and now nearly a year later with the knitting bug chomping at my heels, I am inspired again, especially now seeing her success.

So I am declaring that today, I will start my own sock of the month(ish) club. First pair on deck is to finish these socks:

by the end of the month.

Then I get to pull things out of my sock club! Unlike the Yarn Harlot, not all of my potential picks will be new fresh options (or socks... I've got a pair of fingerless mitts that just needs one more!!), but I'm going to try to have a little (little compared to sweaters for monsters) project for each month to get myself to be more productive (and have blog fodder and to stop wasting pointless time reading rants and crap on Ravelry).