With the way today's knitting has been going, I wouldn't be surprised if the School's Out Sock spontaneously combusted.  

We had a long car ride, so I packed the Orange Aran, the Summer Shawl, and the School's Out Sock.  My goal was to work on the Orange Aran for a while, since it's the biggest MP 2008 thing I have left.  (Other than it, it's doing the finishing on Chaise, finishing the Secret Project, a sock and a half, and the crewel work.)  

As I was knitting with the first ball of yarn, I was finding a lot of clean breaks of two plies.  This seemed odd, but I'd checked the rice basket where I was keeping the Orange Aran and my other supposedly active projects, and hadn't seen signs of bugs.  I convinced myself that the yarn had just kept catching on the basket and switched to the other ball.  That had two breaks, but they were to the ends.  There were other areas where the plies had separated a bit, as if pulled.  Looking at the pictures of it in stash in Ravelry, it looks as if some of the other battered skeins have the same thing.  

Still, skeptical, once I'd done another repeat, putting me at a bit less than half through the back, I switched to the Summer Shawl.  I worked on it for a while, getting up to almost the end of row 49, which would have put me at 12.3 percent.  

Then, I noticed I'd misaligned the yarnovers in the last cast off point.  I tried dropping back, but that didn't work.  I pulled it off the needles and ripped, then put it back on and counted and recounted obsessively.  I'm now at the start of row 39, which means that I lost about five percent of the shawl, including all of today's work.  

The sock hasn't given me problems.  Yet.