Misnomer

I'd say that I spent the evening sewing, but I didn't, really. I spent approximately five to ten minutes with a needle going up and down stitching two pieces of fabric together. Mostly what I spent the evening doing was cutting stitches, remeasuring, pinning, unpinning, and ironing. (In my experience, whenever you sew something, you spent maybe a quarter of the time actually sewing. Which makes it really hard for newbies to estimate how long projects will take--it's two seconds to make this seam, but it will take you twenty minutes to prep properly so the seam looks right.)

(I'm making alterations. A lot of alterations. While my weight hasn't changed much, my waist size has significantly and now nothing I own fits. I think I need to hit a professional tailor for some of these, though--I'm not really up for altering a lined jacket.)

2011 Book Review #46: Passage

Title: Passage
Author: Connie Willis
Genre: I really have no idea. Contemporary literary fiction? Fantasy? Science fiction?
Thingummies: 4.5

Synopsis: Joanna Lander is a medical researcher who studies near death experiences. When Richard Wright asks her to join him in his project to map brain functions to pharmacologically induced NDEs, it seems like the perfect extension of her own work. But when she undergoes the procedure herself, she finds herself pulled into something much larger than she had anticipated.

Thoughts: ( So, what did you think? )