Lazy morning, very nice

Now I mysteriously really want to make a bonnet. Maybe it's a good idea, I want to get into Victorian (what I make being almost entirely based on what I feel like making, because I'm not part of any groups apart from what Julie's starting and don't need specific eras) but I'm slightly put off by having to make corsets before any outerwear because I'm not great at corsets. But with a bonnet you don't have to have anything to make sure it's the right size apart from hair.

( more blahblah about sewing )

FANTASY COSTUMING AND LISTMAKING: MUCH EASIER THAN ACTUALLY SEWING

I need to write the last couple pages of my book but AHAHAHA it's at 50,007 words and I don't have to until I want to.

Watching Peggy Sue Got Married, a terrible 80s movie where full-on adults play teenagers. The funny thing about Nicholas Cage is that he gives the impression that he gets worse with age, but IMO he's actually improved a lot from this and that movie with Cher, which is really saying something. "I've the hair, I've got the teeth, I've got the eyes. Look out the window; I've got the car!"

I also need to make appts to finish up my 18th century patterning, and email Cherry Hill to see if they found that 1790s jacket in the attic yet. And re-email Clermont and Schenectady to see if they have anything - neither responded last time.

The Accidental Sorcerer has redeemed its one problem by subverting the subversion, which is interesting, but has now gone into an "oh-no-arranged-marriage" plot. And the oh-no is somewhat justified here as it's basically a modern setting, but like the ordinary princess trope (which goes back at least to 1980) I'm just tired of it in general. When it's really justified like in The Curse of Chalion I can dig it, but when it actually sounds like a fairly decent idea and the only objection is someone not being asked it flops. For me, anyway.

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I just wrote

the

best

cover letter for the millinery apprenticeship at Colonial Williamsburg. I doubt I have a hope in hell of getting an interview - I don't have that much actual sewing experience (just thinking-about-sewing experience) and I haven't acted in years - but that was seriously the most persuasive and enthusiastic cover letter I've ever written. It feels so good to do one where my degree in fashion and textile history is a bonus, rather than something I have to explain. And while this might contribute to that when I apply to other, more collectionsy positions, it would be a really definitive way to say "I can make clothing for your interpreters" (rather than "I can theoretically make clothing for your interpreters, I guess") AND would be experience from an institution that everyone knows about.

And you know, I was mainly applying because Julie sent me the job and I wanted to be able to say I'd applied for it tomorrow, but now I'm all imagining how awesome it would be and how much fun I'd have and aghaiofrjdks why do I always do this to myself?

I have a few other jobs to apply for from another site, but they are ALL over the country, oh god plunging back into despair at the complete lack of job opportunities that exist. Dad thinks I don't work very hard at looking for jobs because I'm lazy or something, but it's really because looking at the websites makes me want to cry. I know I complain about this all the time, but it is just soul-crushing when I actually let myself think about it.