My application for research funds

As you may recall my application for research funding was discussed in our women's seminar/support group last friday. I got lots of really good, constructive criticism. The problem is that it made feel like the whole thing sucked and now I don't know where to start with the changes. I made lots of notes of course, but I think I would need more than 7 days to make these changes (especially since I can't sit long periods and write because of my back). And I said some really good things that I never got written down and people had really good ideas, but I don't know how to work them into the application. But I know I have to make those changes to really get through with what the purpose of the proposed project is.
I know how to get through with this, one little thing after the other, but some of the changes are rather big.

I want to do something fun!

So, I want to do something fun, i.e. sew something. But I don't know what. I have cut and partly sewn a pair of sleeves for my peasant kirtle, but my hands are hurting so much that I doubt more hand sewing is a good idea. And they're not exactly fun.
I don't have any fulled wool I want to use for my warm sleeves to wear with the red sixteenth century gown. And that would also mean more hand sewing.
I think I need a new effigy corset. The comfy corset fits me nicely, but I need a corset that compresses my bust more, since otherwise my old dresses won't fit and I would also like to have a corset with tabs. But there's a problem: I can either start on my planned all hand sewn effigy corset, from hand woven linen and boned with reeds, but that would be bad for my hands. It's also not ideal to start such an ambitious project when I'm in the process of loosing weight. Or I could make a machine sewn corset quick and easy. The problem here is that I would love to use plastic whalebone then, which I don't have and which isn't sold in Sweden. So I would have to order it from England.

So instead I waste time on LJ and wander around the flat aimlessly.

I have enough 16th century corsets for the moment

I spent around an hour trying on corsets and bodices and have come to the conclusion that I don't need another corset right now. My old, old, first corset now closes in the back due to the fabric having stretched. But fully closed it is comfortable and my old bodices fit (that's how I know it's the corset that has stretched and not me who has gotten smaller). Also, the doublet is large enough for me to wear the extremely comfortable party corset I made for the department's christmas party a little over a year ago. It's actually a little too big now, but it will do nicely for the day; easy to move in, and front-closed. The fact that it is made from very small-whale corduroy with a printed pattern makes it unfit to be seen, but will help keep me warm too. So, unless I shrink too much, I will wear that corset with the red gown and my first corset with the purple gown.
So I felled seams and hemmed the sleeves instead; soon finished.