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chocolatepotTow presentations today. D: On the one hand, two in one day is something I haven't done since the time in first semester, and it nearly broke me. On the other, a) great to get both done on one day, instead of dragging this last week out longer, and b) I am a whole year and a half older and wiser and will probably not end up in tears or anything. Just ran through the Wheeler presentation again and I'm pretty happy with it. I should try to volunteer to go first or second but that is not a strong point for me.
So I decided not to work on my stays at all until I get home, because I want second opinions on fit from my mom, and it's funny how as soon as I put down one creative outlet I find myself head-over-heels in another. Yesterday afternoon and evening I wrote about 1,600 words of a Susanna Clark-esque short story - which isn't that much when I'm doing NaNo, as the aim for that is speed, but on a day when I'm lazing around not doing anything, and periodically going out for long walks etc.? I'm impressed. Especially as I haven't written anything new in ages, since before I started the Lefferts shirt, I think. I think some of it's that my free time gets taken up with whichever activity I'm currently working on, but even when I do try to switch from sewing to writing in one day it just ... doesn't work. But whichever I pick, I definitely feel a bit more energized on days when I'm concentrating on a project, even if I'm not actively working on it.
I've been watching Conviction on Hulu, and you know, I wish it hadn't gotten cancelled. I think I see why it was, but I like a legal drama once in a while to break up the mystery-solving procedurals. And it's much better than the L&O series(es) in terms of characterization.
Tumblr posts that need to happen: two or three on Candace Wheeler's stuff, and some more on Arts & Crafts/the PRB; Ancient Greeks in fashion history and in the twentieth century.
So I decided not to work on my stays at all until I get home, because I want second opinions on fit from my mom, and it's funny how as soon as I put down one creative outlet I find myself head-over-heels in another. Yesterday afternoon and evening I wrote about 1,600 words of a Susanna Clark-esque short story - which isn't that much when I'm doing NaNo, as the aim for that is speed, but on a day when I'm lazing around not doing anything, and periodically going out for long walks etc.? I'm impressed. Especially as I haven't written anything new in ages, since before I started the Lefferts shirt, I think. I think some of it's that my free time gets taken up with whichever activity I'm currently working on, but even when I do try to switch from sewing to writing in one day it just ... doesn't work. But whichever I pick, I definitely feel a bit more energized on days when I'm concentrating on a project, even if I'm not actively working on it.
I've been watching Conviction on Hulu, and you know, I wish it hadn't gotten cancelled. I think I see why it was, but I like a legal drama once in a while to break up the mystery-solving procedurals. And it's much better than the L&O series(es) in terms of characterization.
Tumblr posts that need to happen: two or three on Candace Wheeler's stuff, and some more on Arts & Crafts/the PRB; Ancient Greeks in fashion history and in the twentieth century.
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