Autumn Zebra

I am so excited that tomorrow I can go to the university library to copy out information on how to make some Victorian combinations, as these will be the first item in my bicycling outfit I am going to make. Maybe there will be some bloomers or something in there too. I thought about doing a divided skirt, but I've decided to do wool bloomers, a woollen wide-lapelled jacket, combinations and a button-up pseudo corset thing. The cycling outfit came out of my wanting to make some "reform" clothing, so I'm also going to do a divided petticoat and some non-cycling late-Victorian or Edwardian clothes too. There's two books in the city about the women's reform clothing movement from 1850 onwards, and one has been out for the last 3 weeks and the other is at at the university library. I've applied for a library card, but they haven't sent it to me yet; maybe they lost my application :( I was going to read the book before making the clothes, but I got bored wa...

My currently most listened to song is Sitting Inside My Head ( lyrics ) by Supergroove . I've listened to it 20+ times in the last 3 days at work (lucky I have headphones). You should probably get "Postage - A best of" if you want to get a CD, as pretty much every song on it is good (as one would expect from a compilation). It's really hard to express how generally awesome Supergroove is, so that's why you should get a CD! They are said to be a "funk" band, which in itself is awesome, because what does that even mean? Their music is very humourous and quirky and a mixture of styles, and I love hearing NZ accents in songs, it makes me happy. The end.

No. You shouldn't. See this photo. How much taller is that tree than the house it is in the front yard of?! (left, you can just see the grey roof and a white chimney, I know it is a bad photo to see it in). If you had to remove that tree, you'd need a crane. (Click on the photo to see it bigger; I like this photo) UPDATE: That post was in 2008, now it's 2014. The house went up for sale, and no one would buy it, probably because of the tree. The tree had started to die several months before. The situation remained for a few months until finally the tree was indeed removed with a crane and the house was sold.

There's this weird site where you can get dragon eggs and if people click on them and view them, they hatch into little dragons, or something... So you should click on people's when you see them*. Like this one! It's orange, it's one of my favourite colours. It is pretty. *Otherwise I think they die. :-( I don't know if I can deal with the emotional trauma of possibly killing the imaginary dragon! ;) Edit: I got more - you can have up to 4. This one sounded cool - " This egg is sitting in a patch of grass and small flowers even though there's no sun in the cave" :-) Unfortunately these ones are not so exciting colours, but I would feel bad if I got rid of them. There was one that was described as purple that I could have got, but that was at the same time as the "patch of grass" one, and that just sounded too cool. You'll have to click on the light green and white ones to see what they say about them ;)

Last month's goal was to study Polish for at least 30 minutes a day, which I pretty much achieved except 2 days when I was out too much (work + out in the evening + no time in the morning before work) to do so. But some days I did 1 hour, so hopefully that makes up for it. So I achieved my goal. I think that's the first time I have achieved an explicit goal (despite endless "goal-setting" classes and exercises at school), so that's pretty weird/exciting. I think I see how it works now. Sort of. It might be the first time I've wanted something enough to have it work, but I think there's more to it than that, but I don't know what. I'm not sure how much I learnt (of Polish), as there's no way to really measure the amount of knowledge currently stored in your head on any given subject. You could do some kind of test, but I have no test handy, and how would you know you had tested for everything you know? I can't explicitly remember any Polish ...