gilded_garb posted some "data gathering" questions a few days ago. I'm a little late to the game, so I figured I'd answer them here.

1. Why do you costume? Do you do it more or less now than you did when you first joined LJ?- Pragmatically, I costume because there are events to go to.  I go to events because I like dressing up and being with friends and ( Read more... )

I rarely complain about the weather. I find its whys and wherefores interesting. I enjoy seasonal change, day-to-day variations, and the odd ways it differs from more temperate weather ( Read more... )

... but I like clothes. I first really began to get into fashion shortly after I started working full time. It's been over eight years now. I've dealt with some significant-to-me lifestyle fluctuations, and a lot of style discovery and progression. (My latest discovery is that my style won't stay perfectly the same. Last year I wore my white pique ( Read more... )

This post grew out of some comments and discussion on my "eye-opener" post, about how much stuff I actually did get done last year.  Some interested questions brought about some moderately lengthy answers from me. And it occurred to me that expanding on those answers might be interesting, and maybe even useful, to others. (Do any of you remember ( Read more... )

I've started working on a 2013 sewing roundup post, based on working my way through the sewing notebook. Between that and things that I do remember, I'm up to *gulp* 29 items. That includes unfinished objects, which number 8. That's significant; but 3 UFOs are shifts that have high priority by definition.  And only 2 UFOs are attributable to my ( Read more... )

I'm interested in so many things! It sounds arrogant, but I think I have the ability and knowledge now to be a rockstar costumer. But I don't have the dedication to be one. And that's because - aside from the lack of time that everyone deals with - I'm still interested in too many things. Obviously, singing in choirs is a big one. Family and friend ( Read more... )

Highway construction is not a fun thing, as a rule. However.

When they've put up free-standing columns, or maybe rows, but not yet laid the long beams for the overpasses, it's like driving through ancient ruins in Greece. Really, it is. Especially in summer, when the sun's a bright white glare on the concrete dust all around. Or during sunrise or ( Read more... )

"Haven't you ever been disappointed yourself? Wanting to go to a party, and not being allowed to at the last minute, and all that?"

"Oh, yes," agreed Philip. "Not parties, but other things. But I didn't know grown-up people could be disappointed about anything. I thought they could do anything they liked."

Hitherto Philip, simple soul, had regarded ( Read more... )

This one from seawasp.

1) What author do you own the most books by? Not sure. With the weekend's acquisitions, I have 32 Saint books, so that's probably the highest.  The Agatha Christie and Nancy Drew collections surpass that, but both are jointly owned by my mother and I. And the majority of the Louis L'Amours are Nathan's.

2) What book do you own ( Read more... )

I'm sitting back and enjoying the current war controversy opinionated discussion over at little_details .  The original poster's question is, basically, If a guy back on a hypothethical earth roughly equivalent to 10,000 B.C. gets his legs mauled by a Big Nasty Animal, will his wounds get infected, and how likely/survivable is amptuation?

Until comment #10, the ( Read more... )