Someone on the internet knows this

You know how it's a right pain to try and find a word via search engines? They're great if you know the word, but if you don't know the word they're an exercise in flailing via thesaurus. And I don't even know if there is a specific word for this one.

I can see in my head a specific sort of head covering, like a bag for your hair and then tied on at the front. A bit like the tudor things with the sparkly hair nets, but earlier/cheaper versions. Is there a thing like that? Is there a word for it? For that matter is there a word for sparkly tudor hair nets? Hair bag is not the word. Poking the internet finds 'snood' on some sites that sell similar things, but they don't have the nice big tie on bits, just elastic, plus putting snood back into google image search doesn't get me anything like what I'm looking for. Is it just a particular way of tying a head scarf? I never got the hang of tying my hair with a square thing, it always fell out the side, so I just got hats and put up with the sliding. But now I want a head covering for a medieval adventuress, and I can't find a word.

I know what she looks like to her boyfriend. Like she put a bag on her head and used the strap to keep it on. There's versions in linen and leather, depending on if it's city or country wear.

(He thinks she should just let her hair down, she's all "what kind of girl do you think I am?", but mostly it's to keep mud out of her hair.)

This is the trouble with being a writer, my head gets full of imaginary people having an argument and they get stuck looking for a word and now here I am looking for said word to make the perfectly perfect put down for an imaginary person.



In not unrelated news, I also need to look up alternative ways of saying 'prostitute' throughout history. There's got to be versions that are more polite and about people who could be seen in polite company.
... search slightly complicated by needing the equivalent words for him, which I don't know any at all polite ways of saying, let alone polite and medieval-ish...




And of course none of this is getting my homework done, which I totally sat down to do, but hey, internet connection, I could do learning things instead...

Actual work on my actual dissertation

I have been working on my dissertation via watching Doctor Who.
Those episodes with the Flesh were well creepy. Mostly the minute at the end when Amy wakes up. There's horror and screaming and really, Do Not Want.

I'm checking and making notes on a transcript of A Good Man Goes to War. Also I will need to get screencaps of what everyone looks like and what they're wearing.
I forgot how long it takes to go through something when paying attention. 90 minutes of study, 8 minutes of episode.

This progress would not usually be worth writing about, except it's the first I have made since depression ate my brain this summer. I haven't been watching Doctor Who. That's how depressed I was. I haven't just been avoiding the one episode, I simply haven't watched it at all. That was a whole new level of suck.

Today: Three episodes. Well, the last half of the one I gave up on yesterday, a whole episode, and then a very slow 8 minutes of an episode. Near enough.

I've stuck a timesheet in the front of my logbook so I can add up exactly how much work I've been doing, and go arrgh arrgh how am I going to turn this into 400 hours before next year let alone April arrgh. But it's a start.

On Monday I can go and print stuff out and have lots more bits of paper in my log book. Which is actually a big blue box. Because obvious reasons.

Next I shall eat food, and then decide between going to bed and doing more taking notes out of books.
... okay, face it, bed will win, but I'm actively thinking about it.
And I've been getting the old cheat sheets out and trying to remember which movements are pans and what a medium shot looks like, so I feel like Proper Film Studies Student.
Not that I need that stuff. I'm studying stuff about gender, it usually isn't relevant if they're in close up or not. But I'm also trying to get my brain back in gear, and feel I have had some success.




None of this is the homework I need to get done for Monday, but that's a whole separate problem.