yoshimi looped scarf

I'm not great at naming my own projects.  You know the Dolores Park Cowl?  Yeah, it's named after a place that's pretty much irrelevant to me, other than being on the way out of the yarn store where I found my Malabrigo.  I've considered renaming it something more witty or fun, but at this point it's just way too late.  This pertains to today's post because I am now faced with a similar dilemma, trying to name this scarf I threw together, which has no exciting back story whatsoever.  I just made it because our house is really drafty, and I spend all day working in my home office wishing for a looped scarf so I can stop shivering without having long scarf ends getting in my way.  The yarn is Plymouth Mushishi, and for some reason my brain kept changing it to Plymouth Yoshimi.  As in, the Flaming Lips song.  Right.  Totally unrelated, yet my mind has decided otherwise, and I'm kind of embarrassed to admit the likely cause is my deep ignorance of the Japanese language.  But it's either "Yoshimi scarf", or the "work from home" scarf, so there you go.  Obviously, I have no future in marketing.

Honestly, this is just another one of those generic loop scarf recipes.  Nothing particularly innovative to see here, kind of like the cowl before it.

Yarn: Plymouth Mushishi, 06 Granite, less than one skein
Needles: Size 8
Gauge: Doesn't matter
Directions (also on Ravelry):
Cast on 45 stitches.
Work in k5, p5 rib for about 50 inches.
Bind off all stitches.
Minding the work so as not to twist it, fold it in half and seam the ends together.
Weave ends, snip, and lightly block.

(If you want a cleaner finish, start with a provisional cast-on and graft the two ends together so as to avoid the seam.)