Will synthetics eat my soul?

I have 9 metres 155 cm wide burgundy fabric with a faint silvery shimmer. The sheer amount of it begs me to do a german with full circle skirt, like the Mary of Habsburg gown. The catch? It's 100% polyester. It doesn't necessarily look like polyester, it doesn't feel like polyester, but I did a burn test so I know.
And I don't know if I'll ever wear it because of that. Also, while the actual dress is pretty simple there is a lot if work on the smock and a fitting headdress and if I should make something from synthetics it definitely should be something reasonably simple that doesn't require hours and hours of hand sewing (except the hemming of the skirt ;))

The nailing of the dissertation

In ten minutes I, Vendela and Valeria and a couple of friends from work are going down to the main university building and nail my dissertation to the wall. Rickard is meeting us there.
Yep, that's right. We're keeping the old mediaeval tradition of nailing dissertations to a wall, the prejudice for Luther's nailing of his "theses" to a church wall.
At most universities this is replaced by an announcement on the university's web site, but Göteborg, Umeå, Luleå and Linköping still keep to the old ways.
Finally it's beginning to feel real.