Back to work

[frualeydis]

I am actually not yet well from the flu, but yesterday I got back to work on my usual sick leave of 50%. It was no slow start, since on Thursday I have a 40 minute presentation on clothing and its social meanings in 17th century Sweden at a research symposium at our town museum.
I haven't done the additional research on late 17th century probates from Gothenburg I had planned since I was ill, so I will have to have a more general discussion based on the probates from Stockholm that I have worked with on and off the last years.

I got a bit of a flow this morning, but then I had a meeting at work and after that I needed some rest in the sun on my balcony. First I read the latest Crimes of Fashion book, "Lethal black dress", which arrived on Friday for a while and then I read Clare Haru Crowston's latest: Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France for an hour before going back to the computer to work on my presentation.

I think that it will be interesting enough, not much new content for me, but that doesn't really matter, because it will be new for at least most of the other participants. It also got me thinking that I really should write a book about 17th century dress in Sweden - I think that I will soon know the subject well enough. That put me in a good mood, even if I don't see it happening soon- I'm not even well form the flu yet really.

Comments

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

It also got me thinking that I really should write a book about 17th century dress in Sweden - I think that I will soon know the subject well enough.
I'd certainly buy it!

Hope you get better soon.

[starlightmasque.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon!