Found It!

I made a foray into my LYS and found a hairpin lace loom! An inexpensive one by Susan Bates. This is exactly what I wanted for a trial run of lace-making.

I found the following on the interwebz and thought it matched my symptoms nicely:

The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, or even electronically. This virus is called Weekly Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone else via any means whatsoever-DO NOT TOUCH IT!!! This virus will wipe out your private life entirely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises.Take two good friends to the nearest liquor store and purchase one or both antidotes-Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Reebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.You should immediately forward this medical alert to five friends. If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.Now I know many of you hate work and have probably gotten this e-mail but they left out my favorite anti-WORK cure Virtual Overload Destroying Kinesis Agent(VODKA).

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