Items of General Interest

Remember the job I applied for at the Martin Van Buren House? Temporary, seasonal, basically a glorified housekeeper for one summer. Well, I got USAjobs'd! (Translation: the computer deemed me "eligible but not as qualified as other applicants" and did not forward my resumé on to the actual humans.) What does it take to get through that system?? Is it possible that in some cases, the state already has a preferred candidate and they do something to the computer so only that person can get through?

I went and saw Deadpool today. ( Really liked it. )

Has anybody done any research on bone eyelets? Not rings that were sewn over but those thick, set-in bone eyelets. I've been working on a blog post about Regency corset dating and construction, realizing that so many assumptions about the sequencing are wrong or at least overstated (because corsets I would have put 1805-1810 based on how they look, for instance, have metal eyelets), and it occurred to me that it would be pretty sweet if we could say "this corset can be no earlier than 18XX because of the bone eyelets" ... but nobody appears to know.

Speaking of Regency corsets, I need to make a new one. *deep sigh* I'm going to have to make multiple things concurrently, which is so hard. But my old wearable mockup is so uncomfortable - it needs more flare in the hips, and I'm not convinced that the gussets should be cut so short and high, because it needs a lot more space in the bust. I'd like to also make a sheer ball dress and white silk slip this summer, and it doesn't make sense to do that over an uncomfortable, ill-fitting corset, so ...