suck

I just gave a bad lecture. The lecture was unstructured and I tried to press to much information in it. When I'm good I can make a half-bad lecture good, but today it was too bad - or I wasn't good enough. My only defense is that I have been forced to make too many new lectures in too little time.
To top it off a middle-aged serbian lady came up to me during the break and was really aggressive because I had "told lies about Serbia and it's ancient history".
I really tried to include often overlooked areas in medieval history, but not being very nationalistic myself and living in a country with very little nationalism I was not prepared that people should have such strong feelings about things that happened in the 7th century and flatly refuse to believe what research has shown just because it isn't in accordance with the national "history".
So now I have to make some drastic changes in the lecture for Thursday, because it is made in the same way as the one I held today and that apparently wasn't good.

A good thing

There's one good thing in this afternoon of suck. flamester and I are going to go see Hanoi Rocks together and I just bought the ticket.

And another good thing

Feeling so down about the lecture I promptly sat down and re-structured the lecture for Thursday and I also finished it. And I think it is pretty good.

I made a skirt

I made a skirt for Valeria last week (most of it on Sunday) and here it is:



The top is just a simple top from H&M that I sewed lace to (by hand, it's easier because of the elasticity). Maja has socks on her hands.