Costumey goodness attn: electriccat!

(Sharing a post from the H-Costume list). Snipped for brevity, but this is in your neck of the woods and I thought you might be interested:

( Announcing a day of historical costume lectures at MIT (Cambridge, MA) on November 8, 2003 )

I attended part of Ms. Netherton's "When Medieval Meets Victorian" class at Costume Con (couldn't stay for the whole thing!) and was mightily, mightily impressed. She has traced back so much modern research to a handful of 19th c. writers, it's clear that she knows her stuff. I wasn't able to go to either of her 15th c. dress lectures, but I talked to some folks who did, and she is clearly a well regarded scholar in the field. I'd be going to this if I were in the neighborhood!

burnout

Today was a circus at work. The craziness started when I got there and literally did not let up all day (except for a 1 1/2 hour meeting, during which I stressed over all the stuff coming in that I wasn't at my desk to jump on).

My brain is cooked. I was going to try and write a bit tonight but I am drawing near absolute blanks. It's strange - after the morning cup of coffee, I can usually create order out of chaos fairly consistently for about 6 hours, but after that, I am useless!

I am SOO looking forward to the weekend!! I want to sleep and sleep...