My right thumb...

...is on its way to looking like a chef's thumb.

When you shape things into footballs, the edge of your paring knife inevitably ends up smacking into your thumb. No deep cuts or anything, just the little nasty ones that are less then a papercut but really suck when you have to squeeze a lemon.
Anyway, this will hopefully scar up nicely and help build up resistence to heat, cuts etc.
One down - nine to go.

OK, no more talk about footballs. Saturday we will prepare stocks!

A little note to the knife and gadget freaks out there: I will go get myself a bird's beak paring knife today. Our instructor uses one and it makes tournage a lot easier.
I'll propably get it at Broadway Panhandler where all FCI students get 10% discount. DANGEROUS! I'll let you know what else they'll talk me into buying.