For those of you who hoped I would post more about my day job... this may not be what you'd hoped.  I am so sorry ( Read more... )

I finally updated my performy blog--I hate the wordpress format, as you could deduce given that the last posting date was back in July.  But I am gritting my teeth and getting used to it.  The current temporary header is a picture of me as the Ancient Mariner on Halloween 2009 and it looks the way I feel.  I'll upload a better one, with an actual ( Read more... )

Last paper of the semester is almost finished.  It's on Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Adams and Bunker Hill.  Have an archive.  The Adamses win Cutest Couple of the Revolution.

I mount this moment for that noisy, dirty Town of Boston, where Parade, Pomp, Nonsense, Frippery, Folly, Foppery, Luxury, Polliticks, and the soul -- Confounding Wrangles of ( Read more... )

Whoever recognizes the subject line gets 100 points for Griffindor.

--My sewing bee on Saturday went really, really well.  Two middle-aged ladies from the Regiment came over, plus one of them brought her thirteen-year-old son.  We all made a nice big party, in such a small apartment.  I cut out and pinned and started to sew the pieces of my chemise ( Read more... )

 It's finally started to pour with rain.  There was a flash of lightning just now, and that hissing pattering rain outside is just not letting up.  AH.  Bliss.  For the last three days it's been hot and muggy and clammy.  Made me feel gross and rancid, the way I felt back during the last summer heatwave.  Now my skin feels happy and I can breathe ( Read more... )

I'm back from Ticonderoga.  It was... a much bigger encampment than Sturbridge, but more disparate.  Right now I'm trying to sort out why I didn't enjoy it as much as last time.

Things that were fun:

--Being a female Loyalist refugee escorted into Fort Ti during one of the battles.  The soldiers escorting us shouted things like "If you were German ( Read more... )

I'll be away till Sunday at Fort Ticonderoga.  Woohoo, Fort Ti!

I've been meaning to post more about re-enacting lately, but the occasion hasn't presented itself.  In short: I love it. 
I went to a mediocre event in July, then a rather dull one-day encampment later in the month, and thought, "Well, this has the potential to be an interesting hobby.  ( Read more... )