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Jun. 29th, 2013 10:59 amEvery time I think I'm getting better, I get pulled back. There is something about knowing that 40 hours of work is worth less* than a round piece of metal that makes me like ... "what is the point of even bothering, then? If my usefulness is of less value than a brake rotor?"
*technically "just a bit more than", but taxes, you know
I was going to eat lunch at Dish, because it's not open on Sundays and I usually have Saturday as my "wind-down" day and don't get out of the house until later. But I kind of lost my appetite for paying someone else for food. Of course, I still have to go to the grocery store because I have no srs food in the house, but that's different. Now to force myself to buy all that fabric I need.
*technically "just a bit more than", but taxes, you know
I was going to eat lunch at Dish, because it's not open on Sundays and I usually have Saturday as my "wind-down" day and don't get out of the house until later. But I kind of lost my appetite for paying someone else for food. Of course, I still have to go to the grocery store because I have no srs food in the house, but that's different. Now to force myself to buy all that fabric I need.
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Jun. 26th, 2013 06:44 pmI really want to read something between Count of Monte Cristo and Revenge - Revenge set in the nineteenth century. It would be brilliant.
(I've just got to the Charlotte revelation. CHARLOTTE OMG!)
One of the things Revenge really makes me reflect on - because the costuming is nearly all high style, aspirational type stuff - is how much modern taste runs to plainness. It's not new to me, it sticks out badly in nearly all the historical fiction I read that the heroine amazes everyone with her pared-down sense of style while all the other women in trimmed and ruffled gowns look frights, but I don't watch much tv set at an equivalent level of society and therefore with an equivalent level of dress. Nearly all the time, nearly every woman wears a well-fitted sheath dress in a solid color: one with a filmy overlayer, another with a single flounce, a third with a delicate applied trim in a contrasting color, but all very basic and stereotypically chic. When something is more fussy, it's still done in one fabric. Is this what the actual Hamptons crowd wears? I have no clue. But I think this is how the middle classes imagine the rich dress, which makes it seem even more related to why people write this way.
Well, it's that and early imprinting on Anne Shirley.
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Going off this plate, I think I'm going to get light blue lawn for the dress and slightly darker blue for the bodice lining and the foundation of the underskirt. Sounds like a plan? (Also, to save links so I can close them, thread and two kinds of ribbons for trimming.)
(I've just got to the Charlotte revelation. CHARLOTTE OMG!)
One of the things Revenge really makes me reflect on - because the costuming is nearly all high style, aspirational type stuff - is how much modern taste runs to plainness. It's not new to me, it sticks out badly in nearly all the historical fiction I read that the heroine amazes everyone with her pared-down sense of style while all the other women in trimmed and ruffled gowns look frights, but I don't watch much tv set at an equivalent level of society and therefore with an equivalent level of dress. Nearly all the time, nearly every woman wears a well-fitted sheath dress in a solid color: one with a filmy overlayer, another with a single flounce, a third with a delicate applied trim in a contrasting color, but all very basic and stereotypically chic. When something is more fussy, it's still done in one fabric. Is this what the actual Hamptons crowd wears? I have no clue. But I think this is how the middle classes imagine the rich dress, which makes it seem even more related to why people write this way.
Well, it's that and early imprinting on Anne Shirley.
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Going off this plate, I think I'm going to get light blue lawn for the dress and slightly darker blue for the bodice lining and the foundation of the underskirt. Sounds like a plan? (Also, to save links so I can close them, thread and two kinds of ribbons for trimming.)
"Emily Thorne" is such a good name
Jun. 23rd, 2013 10:15 amStarted watching Revenge. I've always thought that the actress who plays Emily/Amanda is super beautiful, and I often start watching shows because of crazy beautiful leads (see also: Scandal), plus I knew it was related to the Count of Monte Cristo. I love it so far, although I feel like the pace is going to have to slow down soon as she's been taking down one person per episode.
I was going to meet with a woman about an apartment share today, but it started to occur to me that a) I thought she was a bit crazy (she wanted to meet with an old lady from her church at a Macdonald's "at 12:41, 12:42?") and b) I'd really like to live alone now. I've paid my dues, lived in college dorms and shares, now I want a small one bedroom or studio. I don't want to have to live around someone else, I don't want to deal with habits I can't stand, and, perhaps most importantly, I don't want to pay half of a cable bill.
I've actually used nearly all of my cell phone minutes this month! I'm kind of proud. There are four left, and my bill should be auto-paid today. I am now an adult who talks on the phone, and I am also on a good-sized plan where I'm not over-paying for more minutes than I need. Yay.
I was going to meet with a woman about an apartment share today, but it started to occur to me that a) I thought she was a bit crazy (she wanted to meet with an old lady from her church at a Macdonald's "at 12:41, 12:42?") and b) I'd really like to live alone now. I've paid my dues, lived in college dorms and shares, now I want a small one bedroom or studio. I don't want to have to live around someone else, I don't want to deal with habits I can't stand, and, perhaps most importantly, I don't want to pay half of a cable bill.
I've actually used nearly all of my cell phone minutes this month! I'm kind of proud. There are four left, and my bill should be auto-paid today. I am now an adult who talks on the phone, and I am also on a good-sized plan where I'm not over-paying for more minutes than I need. Yay.
