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Post by beccaelizabeth on Apr 26, 2012 6:00:10 GMT -5
[mombrag]The Elder Daughter has been chosen to receive this year's Undergraduate Award in Linguistics, by unanimous vote of the department faculty.[/mombrag] ED has been talking to her linguistics profs about working for them over the summer as a TA and possibly Research Assistant (which gets paid a bit, even), since there are no classes she needs/wants in the summer sessions. Good vibes, please?
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Post by Sue on Apr 26, 2012 7:21:11 GMT -5
[mombrag]The Elder Daughter has been chosen to receive this year's Undergraduate Award in Linguistics, by unanimous vote of the department faculty.[/mombrag] ED has been talking to her linguistics profs about working for them over the summer as a TA and possibly Research Assistant (which gets paid a bit, even), since there are no classes she needs/wants in the summer sessions. Good vibes, please? This is great news and I'll certainly vibe (even though I doubt she needs S'cubie intervention!)
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Post by Sue on Apr 26, 2012 7:24:20 GMT -5
And don't think you are getting off without more verbiage re the wedding.
For now, a short email Tom sent in reply to one from Allie that said "have you heard whether they made it to the Philippines?"
We are in the Philippines. And love reading emails about our awesome wedding.
We had a wonderful time and are so happy you all enjoyed it as well!
14 hour flight Dinner with Sarah's aunt and uncle in Korea during the 16 hour layover 5 hour flight to Manila Day of walking every square inch of one Manila mall, which felt like more walking than when Sarah made me walk every square inch of New York. This morning alone: Cab ride, prop plane, bus, boat, other boat - all before 10am But now we're at the resort where we will stay for the next several days and spent the day sleeping in the shade by the beach and snorkeling.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Apr 26, 2012 10:09:03 GMT -5
And don't think you are getting off without more verbiage re the wedding. For now, a short email Tom sent in reply to one from Allie that said "have you heard whether they made it to the Philippines?" We are in the Philippines. And love reading emails about our awesome wedding.
We had a wonderful time and are so happy you all enjoyed it as well!
14 hour flight Dinner with Sarah's aunt and uncle in Korea during the 16 hour layover 5 hour flight to Manila Day of walking every square inch of one Manila mall, which felt like more walking than when Sarah made me walk every square inch of New York. This morning alone: Cab ride, prop plane, bus, boat, other boat - all before 10am But now we're at the resort where we will stay for the next several days and spent the day sleeping in the shade by the beach and snorkeling. A day of total restage after major traveling is a very good strategy. Also nice for being a couple. I hope they have a wonderful honeymoon. Me, I will spend part of today shortening two pair of jeans and strengthening parts of my costume for Aethercon next weekend. Much fun is expected. Watching Buffy. The Dark Age featuring the first appearance of Giles' Ripper self just ended. Once more I remember how much I love this show and why.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 26, 2012 12:37:03 GMT -5
Diane, wish you were here to advise me; I need to mend a gian't three-corner tear in the elbow of my white shirt, and just realized that while I can sacrifice a pillowcase I do not own a good embroidery ring to hold the surface flat. Stupid losing things over the years...
Julia, stupid photography damage.
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Apr 26, 2012 13:16:10 GMT -5
Diane, wish you were here to advise me; I need to mend a gian't three-corner tear in the elbow of my white shirt, and just realized that while I can sacrifice a pillowcase I do not own a good embroidery ring to hold the surface flat. Stupid losing things over the years... Julia, stupid photography damage. Hmmm. How about this: Cut a piece of clean stiff paper (printer paper, or a piece of a brown paper grocery bag would be even stronger) a bit larger than the area you want to mend. Baste it onto the side of the fabric facing away from you to stabilize it while you do the mending. When done, remove the basting threads, then dampen the paper and carefully tear it away from the mending stitches. You might be able to kind of slide the needle between the fabric and the paper without piercing the paper, but that is trickier and might be more trouble than it's worth. I've done things along those lines with tissue paper on the front of something I want to embroider text onto, but that had batting on the back so it was already stiff enough to do without a hoop. I hope this makes sense, or at least gives you a better idea.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 26, 2012 16:43:03 GMT -5
Diane, wish you were here to advise me; I need to mend a gian't three-corner tear in the elbow of my white shirt, and just realized that while I can sacrifice a pillowcase I do not own a good embroidery ring to hold the surface flat. Stupid losing things over the years... Julia, stupid photography damage. Hmmm. How about this: Cut a piece of clean stiff paper (printer paper, or a piece of a brown paper grocery bag would be even stronger) a bit larger than the area you want to mend. Baste it onto the side of the fabric facing away from you to stabilize it while you do the mending. When done, remove the basting threads, then dampen the paper and carefully tear it away from the mending stitches. You might be able to kind of slide the needle between the fabric and the paper without piercing the paper, but that is trickier and might be more trouble than it's worth. I've done things along those lines with tissue paper on the front of something I want to embroider text onto, but that had batting on the back so it was already stiff enough to do without a hoop. I hope this makes sense, or at least gives you a better idea. I have a very limited number of stitches I can take at once (and of course a proper triangular tear mend needs two sets of stitches, anyway), and am used to the embroidery-hoop technique. I'm seriously upset; this shirt is the only plain-cotton button-up I own; the other two newish ones have spandex, and thus cannot be bleached. What kind of a world do we live in where plain white cotton long-sleeved buttoned shirts are some kind of a specialty product? Julia, in a bad cranky mood from pain and stupid head cold, sorry
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Apr 26, 2012 17:13:39 GMT -5
Hmmm. How about this: Cut a piece of clean stiff paper (printer paper, or a piece of a brown paper grocery bag would be even stronger) a bit larger than the area you want to mend. Baste it onto the side of the fabric facing away from you to stabilize it while you do the mending. When done, remove the basting threads, then dampen the paper and carefully tear it away from the mending stitches. You might be able to kind of slide the needle between the fabric and the paper without piercing the paper, but that is trickier and might be more trouble than it's worth. I've done things along those lines with tissue paper on the front of something I want to embroider text onto, but that had batting on the back so it was already stiff enough to do without a hoop. I hope this makes sense, or at least gives you a better idea. I have a very limited number of stitches I can take at once (and of course a proper triangular tear mend needs two sets of stitches, anyway), and am used to the embroidery-hoop technique. I'm seriously upset; this shirt is the only plain-cotton button-up I own; the other two newish ones have spandex, and thus cannot be bleached. What kind of a world do we live in where plain white cotton long-sleeved buttoned shirts are some kind of a specialty product? Julia, in a bad cranky mood from pain and stupid head cold, sorry If all else fails, tell me what size hoop you need, and I'll mail you one of mine.
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Post by Sue on Apr 26, 2012 18:11:11 GMT -5
Having gone "full" (well, full-ish, for me) tilt for the past few months I'm having a really hard time getting back up to speed and caring about minor stuff like groceries, bills and laundry.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 26, 2012 18:26:43 GMT -5
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Apr 26, 2012 18:33:54 GMT -5
That goes for all three of us here (Emily isn't into it).
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Apr 26, 2012 18:38:25 GMT -5
[mombrag]The Elder Daughter has been chosen to receive this year's Undergraduate Award in Linguistics, by unanimous vote of the department faculty.[/mombrag] ED has been talking to her linguistics profs about working for them over the summer as a TA and possibly Research Assistant (which gets paid a bit, even), since there are no classes she needs/wants in the summer sessions. Good vibes, please?
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Apr 26, 2012 19:41:30 GMT -5
Having gone "full" (well, full-ish, for me) tilt for the past few months I'm having a really hard time getting back up to speed and caring about minor stuff like groceries, bills and laundry. It IS hard to wind down after months of stress (good or bad) but it's also something you need to slow down and enjoy. Going at that rate is really not good for you in the long run. Groceries, bills and laundry are hard to care much about under any circumstances. They're just stuff we have to attend to. Maybe if you take the time to do something really YOU oriented? As in fun! It's something you told ME years ago.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Apr 26, 2012 19:56:45 GMT -5
Diane, wish you were here to advise me; I need to mend a gian't three-corner tear in the elbow of my white shirt, and just realized that while I can sacrifice a pillowcase I do not own a good embroidery ring to hold the surface flat. Stupid losing things over the years... Julia, stupid photography damage. Hmmm. How about this: Cut a piece of clean stiff paper (printer paper, or a piece of a brown paper grocery bag would be even stronger) a bit larger than the area you want to mend. Baste it onto the side of the fabric facing away from you to stabilize it while you do the mending. When done, remove the basting threads, then dampen the paper and carefully tear it away from the mending stitches. You might be able to kind of slide the needle between the fabric and the paper without piercing the paper, but that is trickier and might be more trouble than it's worth. I've done things along those lines with tissue paper on the front of something I want to embroider text onto, but that had batting on the back so it was already stiff enough to do without a hoop. I hope this makes sense, or at least gives you a better idea. Anne's advice is very good. I've used the technique and gotten good results. An alternative is to used a blind stitch to make the repair. Rather than try to describe it, there's an instruction on blind stitch . It isn't entirely invisible. Looks like a tiny seam, but it's not too noticable. I should also add that an embroidery hoop the size needed isn't expensive. Evil Joann sells them for under $3.
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Post by Sue on Apr 27, 2012 8:56:47 GMT -5
MOST excellent news. Confounded by how they do last week's ep and then (given the previews) come back to the present. More on the Fringe thread.
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