how NOT to finish a lace shawl

1. bring 99.9% complete seasilk lacewings shawl to LK snb.
2. drink nothing but jasmine and honey-laced green tea [iced].
3. giggle a lot.
4. knit to the end of the shawl and then start to bind off.
5. giggle and lose focus.
6. reach to tug the strand i'm binding off with only to realize it's come off the needle and i'm now undoing my bind off...and my lifeline-less lace...like a zipper
7. scream.
8. frantically grab all the stitches i can find on the needle in any order, just to get them.
9. pout.
10. go home, turn on rockstar: supernova on the tivo and commence the thing that must be done if i have any hope of sleeping [rip back 2 rows, plip the last row, stitch by stitch, until everything's safely back on the needles]
11. for good measure, knit one row to be sure it still looks like lace

binding off for real will commence this afternoon. this cautionary tale is brought to you by the "save the binding off of lace for when you're alone and can concentrate" society of upper canada.

p.s. just ripped back what i knit last night. things are not progressing to plan. hrm.