I love my new hoodie
Jun. 6th, 2020 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nineveh_ukThere, that is my positive spin on today. I have a new hoodie (aubergine) from Tog24* and it is amazing and warm and cosy and a feeling of pleasure even as I lay on the sofa with the head pulled over my eyes, because they hurt and I was exhausted. I have a sudden fellow-feeling with all the teenaged boys in Skam who are clearly wearing their hoodies and baseball caps and beanies as mobile comfort blankets in a time of teenagerness. It has been a long week. Actually, it has been a short week, but the step from an average of 4 - 4 1/2 hours to 6 hours a day has been more than I'm physically able to cope with. I slept 10 hours last night, didn't leave my bed until after 11, and I'm still utterly flattened and there is a small fire somewhere beneath my breastbone. It is going to be day 6 of eating food I have previously made and frozen because I can't cope with actual cooking. I feel that this is not sustainable.
It really is an amazing hoodie, though. I am about to order a blue one with a zip, because clearly this is not a year in which I am going to get much use out of my summer work wardrobe, so I should spend money (and time, in the case of sewing) on casual clothing for the current situation.
Otherwise, this afternoon I sat on the sofa and have made a cunning hinged widget for linocut printing my latest creation (a SARS-COV-2 virus :-) ), and marked up some paper for printing tomorrow. Unfortunately, the cunning jigs that you can buy involve instructions for use like "First glue your lino to a piece of MDF that you have cut to size". Not having an inexhaustible supply of MDF or a workshop to cut it in** I am making do with the backs of defunct clip-frames, cereal and shoe boxes, and a childhood of watching Blue Peter.
* For reasons that are unknown to me, they seem to have sized this season (unlike the coat I already had from them that gave me false confidence in ordering my usual UK12) for Dutch landgirls. If tempted, size down if you are less than 5'10. But the quality is very good otherwise.
** And no longer working in a science department I cannot, as I did many years ago, go down to the workshop with a piece of MDF on which I had drawn outlines of a load of daggers and a large sword and have them cut them out for me for a pirate-themed fancy dress party.
It really is an amazing hoodie, though. I am about to order a blue one with a zip, because clearly this is not a year in which I am going to get much use out of my summer work wardrobe, so I should spend money (and time, in the case of sewing) on casual clothing for the current situation.
Otherwise, this afternoon I sat on the sofa and have made a cunning hinged widget for linocut printing my latest creation (a SARS-COV-2 virus :-) ), and marked up some paper for printing tomorrow. Unfortunately, the cunning jigs that you can buy involve instructions for use like "First glue your lino to a piece of MDF that you have cut to size". Not having an inexhaustible supply of MDF or a workshop to cut it in** I am making do with the backs of defunct clip-frames, cereal and shoe boxes, and a childhood of watching Blue Peter.
* For reasons that are unknown to me, they seem to have sized this season (unlike the coat I already had from them that gave me false confidence in ordering my usual UK12) for Dutch landgirls. If tempted, size down if you are less than 5'10. But the quality is very good otherwise.
** And no longer working in a science department I cannot, as I did many years ago, go down to the workshop with a piece of MDF on which I had drawn outlines of a load of daggers and a large sword and have them cut them out for me for a pirate-themed fancy dress party.