How pathetic is this?

The photo is one side of the front of my kimono sweater. It's ready to be cast off the needles. Yes, what you see to the right is the yarn tail, all that's left of the one skein of yarn it took to knit this front. Yes, you are right--that's nowhere near enough yarn to successfully bind off.

I am going to have to join yarn, which I have not had to do for this entire piece, just to do the cast off row.

Sigh.