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Voted
this morning. In at 9, out by 9:15--two people in line ahead of me, three behind. Poll workers v. cheerful and efficient. Obama didn't really need my vote in this state, but the No on 8 was absolutely crucial. -
IT'S HERE!!! I HAZ IT!!! EARLY CHRISTMAS!!!
My copy of Patterns of Fashion 4 arrived yesterday--COLOR PICTURES!! 15 SMOCKS!!! DRAWERS!!! It's just in time for my class project, and means I can start working on my Pentathlon project, too. (Eowyn, she has about nine coifs, so you're going to want this.)
In other news, watched Across the Universe last night, and loved it as only a woman my age ( Read more... ) -
Sorry
Busy, as always; preoccupied, way more than usual. The diet, although it is incredibly simple to follow, still seems to take a lot of mental overhead. And in the meantime, the rest of life stacks up and pretty soon there's way too much to say so you don't say anything.
Will try to catch up this time with a sequence of smaller posts.
The diet: Is ( Read more... ) -
Crossposted from the Clothiers and Lyondemere Lists
My thanks to all of you for the thoughtful posts concerning the future of the Company of Clothiers. I've compiled everyone's comments and made some decisions. I thought you'd like to see the (very informal) statistics ( Read more... ) -
Largely for marymont, but I want your input, too
marymontstarted a thread over in her LJ that touched on the declining state of costuming in the kingdom, a topic I'd been brooding over for some months. So I replied with my concerns about the Company of Clothiers, the theoretically-Kingdom-level costuming group I've been nominally running for way too many years now, and asked her to start thinking about ( Read more... ) -
The More I Promised Later (still without pictures)
There are about a gazillion pictures of my lovely new dress out there, but can I figure out how to embed or link to one? EPIC FAIL. Will get Thomas's help later.
The weight's really been getting to me lately--some years and a good 20 pounds ago I tested with borderline sleep apnea, and lately my sleep's been particularly difficult. Even before ( Read more... ) -
While we're at it
Oh, hai. Spent July getting ready for Anniversary, then recovering from same. It was a good, and successful, event: we had three of the four previous sets of Barons & Baronesses present, and they seemed to enjoy themselves; we had a breeze most of the day to combat the heat; the basket raffle was varied and interesting, and generated a lot energy ( Read more... ) -
Heya Tom, it's Bob, from the office down the hall...
I sit in the northeastmost cubicle of a building with lousy cell phone reception. Consequently, people tend to gravitate to the fire exit well to make calls. I've spent the last 30 minutes listening to a rapidfire rendition of noun, verb, buzzword, buzzword, buzzword, and it's very nearly all I can do not to start singing, "All we want to do is eat ( Read more... ) -
Obligatory Earthquake Post
Downgraded to a 5.4; 34 aftershocks recorded so far (I've only felt one). It was a sharp shock here, followed by some seconds of shaking...lost the cover of a light panel near me, apparently one of the other buildings took some damage. We had 15 minutes of faffing around and checking the website (http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/118-34.htm), ( Read more... ) -
Tagged by Pren
1. What I was doing 10 years ago: Working at FileNet, living in Fullerton. We had just gotten Keats and Byron, two wild little kittens. Frantically preparing for a living history performance tour of England. I made two court Elizabethans with wheel farthingales, a fairly large standing ruff, and dressed a wig to wear with my outfits. And learned ( Read more... )