Evening? What evening?

I hadn't really intended to stay at work until 8pm. And it wasn't entirely the boss's fault for going home sick this morning and dumping ... uh ... delegating his 2.5 hours of afternoon meetings to me. And it turns out that the meeting tomorrow that I thought I was finishing up the analysis and powerpoint slides for isn't on the calendar currently (which doesn't mean it isn't happening) so maybe they didn't need to get done before I went home. But goshdarnit, "done" was the only good stopping point on this one. I have now created a vastly oversimplified (maybe sufficiently simplified) presentation explaining how one main issue in the current investigation actually started two years earlier than people have been assuming it started, and that a second factor that was taken as a constant the last time we investigated this topic had actually only been present for the previous two years. (Funny thing, the same two year period as above.) Sorry for the crypticity. It's all much much more fun with the 8x10 glossy powerpoint slides with the circles and arrows and the paragraph ... well, maybe they'll give me as much as 10 minutes to make my case.

Costume lecture in SF Tuesday Night

It occurs to me to mention that I'll be reprising one of the costume lectures from last August for Cloondara A&S night tomorrow. I'm doing the slide-show-intensive "Surviving Garments from the Iceman to Charles the Bold" -- basically a survey of the surviving garments project with a discussion of how and why garments survive and their uses for research.

Along with its sister-lecture "Garment construction genealogies" these are canned lectures I can do with essentially no lead time. Just in case anyone would be interested.