It is a common phenomenon: when circumstances prevent you from doing something, that’s all you can think of. Like when your leg is in a cast and you can’t scratch your ankle, it itches fiercely. She wants to knit. Ideas for new projects begin to flow. But for the last several days, and tonight, she is working under immanent deadline (tomorrow, 2 PM) for a work proposal, that supposedly only she can write. Writing about education and cyber security technologies, she sees colors and textures of yarn become beautiful stitch patterns; will she remember them when the proposal is done?