Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

I went to see Wonder Woman this afternoon, and I'm very glad I liked it so much as I watched the last two parts of the Doctor Who three-parter and did not like it.

( Doctor Who )

( Wonder Woman )

This time I did read erinpuff's comments before writing my own, so.

( 8x04 )

I can't get over the irony that Labor Day is meant to celebrate unionizing and the improvement of working conditions and today we make a big fuss over it and give people the day off ... yet we also turn it into an opportunity for sales and force everyone in retail to work it. And work twice as hard, because all of the people who have the day off are in the stores, buying stuff when they normally wouldn't. Sad, sad irony.

Updated my LinkedIn profile this morning before work. Used a friend's as a hint for how I should do things, now once again despairing because I've wasted so much time not living in New York and volunteering places. But I literally was at work or class every single day when I was there - in one semester, I had class and work on the same day! But I could have interned half-days after or before class ... Oh well, I am going to start volunteering soon.

I've strained my right middle finger pressing buttons on the Hobart price sticker machine. This is very sad. It's unhappy being extended, I have to type with my right ring finger and press buttons with pointer. Tried icing it, didn't do much. Now pointer is starting to hurt! What now?!

( Doctor Who )

When I was in the UK for the first time (2004, I think?) my family went to Ludlow Fair, and I bought a cheap Guys & Dolls CD that almost looked like a bootleg. I haven't listened to it much over the years, but I stuck it in my car the other day and then noticed that Nathan Detroit is played by Bernard Cribbins.

So there's that.

I dreamed I was the Doctor and River's daughter last night. It was pretty boss.

- Interestingly enough, the skirts of the Cherry Hill gown and the first gown I did were both cut in curves on the front corners. Neither were polonaises or had loops to pull up the skirt. Also, they're self-fabric trimmed down the front and just around the curves.

- I have something to add to my usual caveats about trusting museum-given dates. Today I looked at a closed-front en fourreau gown in a striped floral fabric that was marked "1760-1770, remade 1780" - because the fabric is early-looking and the general thought is that fourreau gowns are earlier, and so if you have that plus closed front it must have been remade. But there's no indication that any seams have been changed at all. It's patched, but under the arms, where it was worn. So what I'm saying is, don't assume remodeling when a museum's database/catalogue says so and back pleats go later than most people think.

- I touched a pair of sleeves from the 1720s or 1730s today. With my hands.

- Another gown has nine (original) loops down the inside of the skirt for drawing it up - not something I can find in Arnold or Waugh - and they skew at the top towards the front. I need to mock that up somehow and see what the end result would be so I know what to draw.

- Very, very happy to say that pretty much everything I've worked on for the whole project so far has at least one attribute that makes it worth inclusion. Most have two.

- It seems kind of common for lining and silk sleeve seams to be sewn together, the front or back folded under and lapped around the other, then sewn all the way through. Baumgarten mentions lapping, but not the sandwiching. So that is a plus to learn.

Still would like to find a riding habit, a round gown, and a full waist seam, but

Fixing dates on paintings came up naturally in conversation, and I was able to tell Doug I thought the Zoffany was dated too early! I've been sitting on that since December. The best bit was that after I said it and explained about the woman's dress, he admitted that he'd thought the man's uniform was later! He also suggested I try the Schenectady Museum for clothing. I'd previously counted them out because they're a science museum with a planetarium, but apparently they used to be a local history museum, and they kept their costume collection when they changed their mission.

( Power of Three )

Watching Time of Angels at night is D: STOP STARING AT THE ANGEL, AMY

I'm doing a complete rewatch of Eleven because I haven't before. I'd forgotten a lot of details, plus I want to get all the River foreshadowing/hints. It's definitely better on the second go-round, and the way River acts with Amy is done so well.