Crime and Disappointment and hand-crafted fungus

I finally finished Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment on the weekend. I was so disappointed with the ending! I'd read through over 600 pages of absolute depravity and perverseness on the part of Raskolnikov (there aren't enough despicable adjectives in the English language to describe what I think of him and his appalling "theory") and I thought there might be some sort of redemption coming, which would raise him out of my loathing contempt, and instead I have to wade on to the epilogue, about two pages before the end, and all I get is that he finally realises he loves Sonya (and so he should! - the ungrateful, pathetic, sulking invidual). I hardly thought that was good enough!

Anyway, I feel like a black cloud has now passed in finishing that book and I can go and read something pleasant about reasonable human beings.

The good news is that on the weekend I think I found my vocation! I have previously mentioned crochet and displayed some of my creations. The thing is that to make crocheted things for any sort of profit is just not worth it. Say I make a scarf out of pure wool, which probably costs a minimum of $6 in materials and takes at least two hours to finish, and sell it for $30, which is about the maximum you could hope people would pay I suspect, well that is hardly a get-rich-quick scheme is it? BUT, on Saturday I wandered into a shop in Newtown, a very funky, trendy shop, and there, amongst other groovy knick-knacky things, they were selling crocheted mushrooms, for $43!! $43!! That just might be worth taking up.