so, after a particularly frustrating day yesterday, i decided on a LOTR marathon, and to finish stitching the Vin-doggie on the mag7 doggies.
after listening to the intro by Cate Blanchett, i came to a revelation: Wash. DC is Mordor. no, seriously, think about it: the evil that rises in the east, in Mordor, where the
politicians shadows lie... i'm not talking about just Obama or just this administration, although i think Obama is bringing this country that much closer to the breaking point. there's been a serious shift in american political practices since at least the 1960s, one which seems to value extremism over leadership, polarization of the constituency over common common-sense goals; and a promotion of the breakdown of basic infrastructure. in the beginning of this country, King George was the shadow, England was Mordor, and we were right to fight for our right to govern ourselves. but we've given our rights away in bits and pieces, and we have only ourselves to blame for DC being in the state it is now. i don't know if we're going to have another revolution, or how soon that might be... but i won't be surprised if it happens, either.
the next revelation is that i'm probably going to run out of browns on my mag7 doggies stitch. i have at least 3 brown hats to stitch. 5 if Josiah and Nathan wear brown hats - Ezra wears a black hat like Chris, but JD, Vin, and Buck? all brown hats. oi. i'm at the point of modding the Vin-doggie. i've already changed his holster to
accomodate a Mare's Leg. i'm going to make the stock on that gun darker than the one shown in the pic at that URL, because in this
screencap, the stock looks like it was made out of a dark wood. Vin will also get blue eye-beads, bugle beads for shells on the belt, and a neckerchief. i haven't decided whether or not to give him a medicine pouch yet. Vin wearing a medicine pouch is fanon, but i haven't actually seen any screencaps with him wearing one. but sometimes fanon is stronger than canon. we'll see.
i finally started noting down all the modifications i'm making to the pattern, too, because if i want to do this again, i'm going to want those in hand.
finally, i've been having trouble waking up in the morning. i mean, really waking up. sometimes, i'd fall right back asleep after i got up and took my meds. i thought maybe this was the medication i had to take every 12 hours making me this sleepy, but this morning, i finally realized that that didn't account for the fact that even after evening meds, i was more awake than in the morning. so *this* morning, i decided to keep one of the other meds for this evening, and it worked. i'm actually more awake today than i have been for weeks. i'm such a dumb-ass sometimes. *sighs*
such is my life.
-bs