quiet weekend
Mar. 5th, 2006 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonI deliberately kept this weekend quiet.
Much as I love to go and do, I'm learning - slowly, and stubbornly - that sometimes I have to call a "time out" for my own sanity. This weekend I kept open with no social plans, no errands (except the weekly grocery trip). It was a good one :)
I finished my doublet pattern. Incredibly, given my fiddler crab-like proportions, my arms are alike enough that my drafted pattern will work for both right and left! Let me just say now - I love the smaller/tighter armseyes of earlier periods. Many modern clothes with their great gaping armholes do odd, unflattering things around my shoulders and bustline if there isn't stretch involved, so this is a welcome discovery :)
I also read a lot - uninterrupted, for at least 3 hours. I'd almost forgotten what a decadent luxury it is to just sit and read, setting aside all other priorities! I finished The Trainer - another highly compulsive read by Laura Antoniou, whose full output I can't recommend enough! There's a twist at the end that while not entirely unexpected is vivid and delicious in it's description, yet it still leaves you wondering enough about one repeating character to not feel sure you know everything - yet.
Also finished Queen Isabella - readable history, but I enjoyed the last third or so most, when it got into the evidence suggesting that Edward II may have evaded his assassination and died a hermit in Italy. But then, I do love historic true crime :)
Got some other goodies out of the library: a history of hip-hop, philosophical essays about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a Christopher Moore, and an Elizabethan-era mystery. I'll review once I finish them if I decide they're worth the effort :P
Meanwhile, to bed because I have a busy week ahead - Tuesday costuming lecture, fencing, and a fully packed weekend with study, party, and possibly more fencing (depending on how studying/party turn out).
Much as I love to go and do, I'm learning - slowly, and stubbornly - that sometimes I have to call a "time out" for my own sanity. This weekend I kept open with no social plans, no errands (except the weekly grocery trip). It was a good one :)
I finished my doublet pattern. Incredibly, given my fiddler crab-like proportions, my arms are alike enough that my drafted pattern will work for both right and left! Let me just say now - I love the smaller/tighter armseyes of earlier periods. Many modern clothes with their great gaping armholes do odd, unflattering things around my shoulders and bustline if there isn't stretch involved, so this is a welcome discovery :)
I also read a lot - uninterrupted, for at least 3 hours. I'd almost forgotten what a decadent luxury it is to just sit and read, setting aside all other priorities! I finished The Trainer - another highly compulsive read by Laura Antoniou, whose full output I can't recommend enough! There's a twist at the end that while not entirely unexpected is vivid and delicious in it's description, yet it still leaves you wondering enough about one repeating character to not feel sure you know everything - yet.
Also finished Queen Isabella - readable history, but I enjoyed the last third or so most, when it got into the evidence suggesting that Edward II may have evaded his assassination and died a hermit in Italy. But then, I do love historic true crime :)
Got some other goodies out of the library: a history of hip-hop, philosophical essays about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a Christopher Moore, and an Elizabethan-era mystery. I'll review once I finish them if I decide they're worth the effort :P
Meanwhile, to bed because I have a busy week ahead - Tuesday costuming lecture, fencing, and a fully packed weekend with study, party, and possibly more fencing (depending on how studying/party turn out).
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Date: 2006-03-06 07:39 am (UTC)Cheers, Alianore.
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Date: 2006-03-07 02:52 am (UTC)***memorying for future library trips***
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