JSTOR is insane
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theyellowhobbitRight now I'm in the middle of researching my 7-10 page paper (which I hopefully will make lots of progress on tonight, since HRSFA is going to the Arnold Arboretum tomorrow and I'd like to join them, and I also want to go swing dancing tomorrow night). I've been looking through JSTOR, and happened to find an article by Eric Meyers, one of the archaeologists who has done a lot on ritual bathing and stuff. Actually, I found a few of his articles. So I downloaded one of them.
This article is 457 pages long. It's actually a book or something. Yet I was able to download it in its entirety. It takes up a lot of space, 75,739kb. (I just looked it up in HOLLIS. Harvard has an actual copy of it in Dumbarton Oaks, the library in DC. I think I like my internet copy better. And why does Harvard have a library in Washington, DC?)
Also, a lot of my sources on Jewish women in the middle ages talk about how women spun. How could I not take out my spindle and spin my shiny golden bamboo fiber? I should be spinning something more practical, but I was working with the gold bamboo because it was a prop for the LARP, and I figured it would be something a princess would spin, were a princess to spin fiber in the first place. And forget the part about bamboo not being processed and spun like that at that time. Just look at the shininess.
I have to clue what the yarn will be used for, other than showing it off to everyone in my awesomeness.
In other news, LARP points are redeemable for a space in a future LARP as an NPC. A shiny part at that, though if I do it, it means no Shabbat dinner at Vericon. But I think it's worth that sacrifice. (LARPs- interfering with Rachel's spirituality since 2008).
This article is 457 pages long. It's actually a book or something. Yet I was able to download it in its entirety. It takes up a lot of space, 75,739kb. (I just looked it up in HOLLIS. Harvard has an actual copy of it in Dumbarton Oaks, the library in DC. I think I like my internet copy better. And why does Harvard have a library in Washington, DC?)
Also, a lot of my sources on Jewish women in the middle ages talk about how women spun. How could I not take out my spindle and spin my shiny golden bamboo fiber? I should be spinning something more practical, but I was working with the gold bamboo because it was a prop for the LARP, and I figured it would be something a princess would spin, were a princess to spin fiber in the first place. And forget the part about bamboo not being processed and spun like that at that time. Just look at the shininess.
I have to clue what the yarn will be used for, other than showing it off to everyone in my awesomeness.
In other news, LARP points are redeemable for a space in a future LARP as an NPC. A shiny part at that, though if I do it, it means no Shabbat dinner at Vericon. But I think it's worth that sacrifice. (LARPs- interfering with Rachel's spirituality since 2008).
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