Being Responsible

[hrj]

I pulled up my online paystub this afternoon to see if my annual gym membership reimbursement got processed in time to be on this deposit and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the special bonus related to the Headless Chicken Project that my boss had hinted at was also in this period's deposit. A rather nice, hefty bonus. I was severely tempted to take myself out to dinner and a movie to celebrate it, but tonight was scheduled for making my potluck contribution for tomorrow's dinner at Collegium, so I did the Responsible Thing and stayed in. (Besides which, I'm already planning to celebrate it with a nice lunch out with thread_walker next week. One shouldn't celebrate the same item too much.)

Tomorrow I'll be reprising my "Genealogy of Clothing Construction" slide show (basically: a survey of basic construction strategies and how they relate to each other physically, if not always evolutionarily) and participating in a panel on "Food and Compromise". Sunday I'm doing "Conversational Medieval Welsh", which I don't think I've taught since I was a guest teacher at Caid Collegium a number of years ago. It's convenient to be able to pull out a couple of classes that both require no advance preparation and yet aren't something I've done at all recently. But it really is time to put together some new material for next Spring's collegium.

Comments

[blaurentnv.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the bonus. It must be nice to work for a company that's still doing well enough to give bonuses to people who actually do the work.

[mariedeblois.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

Also, I'd really love to take that class. If I weren't a couple kingdoms away and all. :)

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Only a couple of posts down from yours in my frined's list is this comment from another friend encouraging folk who have a clue about period stuff to participate in the next edition of the Known World Handbook, specifically mentioning "basic starter garb", and it occurred to me that your genealogy of clothing construction would actually nicely fit the bill in the catagory of "basic starter garb" in that it shows the logic of how things are constructed and ties some of it to specific where/whens. I haven't seen the slide show version, only the one you did at a camping event using paper handouts and a huge pile of garb from your closet to illustrate points, so I don't know how easy it would be to adapt the slide show into art appropriate for such a venue, but I thought I'd mention it....
(Should you decide that it is a good idea and you want to do it, but you've got photos that would be better traced into simple line drawing due to the expense of printing photos compared to drawings, I'm pretty good at tracing things in CorelDraw, and would be willing to help with such a thing (since, if I'm going to volunteer you for something, I ought to be willing to help).)