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All-day training meetings today and tomorrow. My brain is full. Can I go home now? In sewing news, I had an issue with my kirtle. I made the jewelry for the neckline the same way I did for the gable hood billaments, the necklace, and the girdle: buttons connected by pearl links on eye pins. The buttons were sewn down, so the pearl links were still connected but hanging "loose" on the garment. I've put my kirtle on Faye several times without problem, but once I tried it on this weekend, suddenly it was like looking at it cross-eyed pulled on the pearls and bent the eyepins open, making the links fall off. Every single time, not matter how gentle we were ( ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ktok helped me put it on and take it off) I'd pop off 4+ pearl links. So I'm hoping it's not a major setback, but now I'm running invisible thread through the pearl links and sewing them down as well. It's stabilizing the links fairly well, but I don't know how well this will prevent the links from breaking again. I think I'll be coming down to the wire on finishing this costume. Good thing I haven't been devoting time in my evenings and weekends to other activities, thinking the sewing will be quick and easy. Hooray for planning. Back to the training meeting.... Tags: costuming, dress diary, sewing, work
Right now I'm feeling...:  working
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ktok and I had a dinner and movie date tonight. We went to Rockfish for dinner. They now have Battlefield Black on tap there, and they were having a crab special going on until April. We had "fried blue crab fingers" for an appetizer, penne pasta with lump crab, sun dried tomatoes (and asparagus, but I had them leave that out on mine), and a seafood alfredo sauce. And we topped it off with their awesome triple chocolate mousse cake. I like chocolate, but often it can be heavy. This is a really good cake. It has a white chocolate layer with a hint of coconut that makes the chocolate not too overwhelming. Afterward, we caught the 10:30 showing of "300." I REALLY liked the movie. I describe it as "definitely Frank Miller" but it just works. The dialogue didn't seem forced, yet maintained a very intelligent and witty banter. The story was obviously a fictional portrayal of an historical event, but despite some of the fantasy elements, again, I thought it worked. (It reminded us a lot of Peter Chung's "Reign: The Conqueror" which is an anime retelling the story of Alexander the Great...and Peter Chung is known for his futuristic stylings. He's the creator of Aeon Flux, to give you an idea.) A lot of times in movies, action sequences seem to get repetitive. For example, what I didn't like about the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie was the redundancy of the "trapped in a circular moving object where they are running and fighting at the same time." And those scenes tended to last long after the audience said, "Yeah, we get the point...next scene, please?" While this movie had battle after battle, and some looked like they would become redundant (shield block, slash, thrust), there was enough differentiation and the director and editors seemed to be audience-aware so that by the time you were on the 5th battle sequence, you knew it was going to be a *different* battle, and were getting the highlights instead of the same thing you had seen 10 minutes before. All in all, a good evening. Now to crash out so I can complain tomorrow about the DST change. Tags: weekend
Right now I'm feeling...:  content
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In the Past... 
groggy
