welcome to camp telophase

If you were interested in the paper about an early modern doctor’s casebook that I posted asking for, let me also point you in this direction: the Cambridge Casebook Project: “In the decades around 1600, the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier produced one of the largest surviving sets of medical records in history. The Casebooks Project, a team of scholars at the University of Cambridge, has transformed this paper archive into a digital archive.”

(What’s different about the guy the paper is about is that he’s not an astrologer-physician, but a more modern learned physician.)

And also in historical stuff, YouTube helpfully reminded me that Janet Stephens, the “hairstyle archaeologist” exists, by throwing my way her video of a period 1870s hairstyle done up in magenta pink for steampunk purposes. I’m fairly sure I mentioned her before, although I can’t be arsed to look it up. But while waiting for my repaired computer to arrive (it was shipped overnight...on Thursday*), I whiled away the time watching her demonstrate lots of Classical hairstyles.

*I am sympathetic to them being overwhelmed due to the pandemic. I am notsympathetic to them claiming the computer was on the truck Friday, then not attempting delivery Saturday, then claiming the thing was on the truck this morning, and delivering it at 8:50 PM, after they said the delivery window was 1-3. If they’d just SAID the damn thing was delayed, I’d not be so annoyed and panicky that it had been stolen. (See: my Wacom Companion 2 several years ago that was shipped to FLORIDA, and the terrible run-ins with Wacom’s terrible customer service, and them not giving me any response until I threatened to reverse the charge on my credit card.)

I have also got inspired to buy hair extensions because I am tired of not having hair long enough to do really nifty updos, and since it looks like we’ll be wearing masks in public for the foreseeable future, and pulling my hair into an updo reduces the amount of poking at my face I do, well, it seemed the logical next step. I sent pictures of my hair to a couple different companions for color-matching purposes, then ordered swatches, and pulled the trigger on that earlier tonight. The second set of swatches also fell victim to postal shenanigans: this time instead of UPS delivering four days late, the post office just didn’t bother to deliver on Friday, when they said the samples were on the truck, or Saturday, claiming there was an obstruction and they couldn’t get to the mailbox. (We have a video doorbell. At the time they claimed, there was nothing parked in front of it.) We’ve had delayed-delivery weirdnesses with this post office several times in the past few months, starting from before the pandemic, so I think it may just be employees scanning things as delivered so they don’t get in trouble for forgetting it or not getting to our house.

So we shall see. My hair is too thin on top to clip extensions in higher than my ears, but that’s totally fine for the purposes of twisting and braiding into various buns and such. If these work out, I shall consider investing in a set in a ridiculously fake color for the hell of it.

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I signed up for fandom_stocking this year, and my stocking is here.

I meant to say The Haunting of Hill House rather than The House on Haunted Hill, but it gets across the idea of horror and ghost stories that aren't terribly DEMON POSSESSED SPLATTERPORN, so I'll let it stand.

Now to try to get enough motivation to do something in return for someone! I had a migraine threaten yesterday morning and for ONCE managed to take meds in time to catch it, but that means I spent the rest of yesterday and last night rather sleepy, and I'm still kinda sleepy this morning. At least in the afternoon I didn't have to do anything more taxing than sit in a chair at the salon and let my stylist color my hair. As is my tradition, I took a selfie from the car and sent it to Toby, and as usual it looks nothing like the actual color.

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And one more post this morning before we go find breakfast and then PACK ALL THE THINGS!

Went to get my hair cut yesterday, which is where I learned about the Groupon coming out today. It's been HOTTER THAN HELL here and I was tired of my hair gluing itself to my forehead in damp strings, so I told Anthony "Think Judi Dench!" He said "That's short!" I said "That's the idea!"

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Kittyspam, new haircut, and button display board. :)

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