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Found a potential apartment with a washer and dryer and off-street parking, close to Price Chopper, which means GREAT BAGELS. Also gorgeous hardwood floors and those half-walls with the pillars, you know those things? I love them.

The sewing blahs

This dress is coming along pretty well. It's unfortunately at the level where it fits well enough that the little issues stand out more than they would if I'd fucked the whole thing up. If you know what I mean. Some of this will be fixed by pinning the bottom of the bodice to the skirt before putting the tablier on top ... probably going to cut off most of the train, too, because it's a bit excessive.

I don't think I'm going to have a flounce on the skirt, though.

Tired

I've put the ruffles on the bottoms of the sleeves, and in general I'm feeling really good about this. Is it perfect? No. Did I do a mockup before starting? Haha, of course not! Which does make the fact that this outfit works fairly impressive, but anyway, my point is that this is a really good place to start the next time I make anything from the 1850s to the early 1870s - and I would like to have an excuse to make something 1860s, I'm liking the bustle and I think I'd like a hoop skirt. Now I have a bodice pattern to start from and fix to get what I think of as a "level two" garment. (The way I think about it, your first attempt at a period/pattern is level one, and then once you have the experience of wearing that and seeing where the wrinkles get really bad, how the "comfortable" armscyes are actually too loose, how the bodice rides up over time, etc. you know what to fix for a garment that doesn't just look okay but works overall for a full day of wear.)

The New Normal surprised me - I ended up watching the first fourteen episodes (don't judge). I didn't realize until a couple in that it was a Ryan Murphy show, but then it was of course obvious that Bryan = Ryan, which meant that Ryan Murphy has a sense of humor and can make fun of itself. Which makes me like him a bit more than I did. The show's a bit more serious than Modern Family, concentrating more on the actual implications of the relationships and situations. I wasn't totally into it at first but when Shania did her fantastic Little Edie impression I Was hooked.

It's too bad it was cancelled, but I'm interested to see what it does with Jane in the rest of the season. At first I was like, "ah, she's a more horrifying Sue Sylvester, that's tired," and I think they found it tired too as they butted her up against other people she couldn't dominate to make her look softer, stopped having her say horrifying things, vanished her for several episodes, and then gave her a makeover to look less obviously Republican. Are they going to totally revamp her, or is she going to just look different?