What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[Fate]

Is there any chance anyone just happens to have a link to a list of Welsh words? Or a link to a name meaning search engine? *can't find anything useful for either*

[nathan_p]

behindthename.com is pretty ace.

[Ovie! Ovie! Ovie! Oy! Oy! Oy!]

I want to watch the new live action Scooby Doo movie, Curse of the Lake monster or whatever.

[Nighthawk]

I need to find stuff to paint.

I made two hundred dollars yesterday on a single painting. That was the first time I ever sold anything. Holy shiznit I'm excited. :DDD

[EndOfTheEarth]

I'm impressed.

[Nighthawk]

Thank you, thank you! *bows* XD

I'm still so overwhelmed though... It's hard for me to believe still.

[Xuut]

... This city website can plan your bus trip for you.

Awesome.

I no longer need to look at confusing maps and try to figure out bus times and what not.

Only bad thing?

I'll need to wake up at like 5....

[Contradiction]

I hate research for school. A lot. Especially when I've pushed myself against the wall in regards to time constraints.

[nathan_p]

Uh, you need any help? I have fuckall to do today.

[Contradiction]

If you want to research New England Puritan daily life for me. >.>

I could use info about:
-when people woke up
-what they did during the winter
-what their houses looked like on the inside
-what they (specifically girl children) wore
-what games they played
-how children were punished, and what for
And more specifically...
-the relationship between Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, and Samuel Parris before/at the beginning of the witchcraft hysteria
-the group of girls with whom Tituba shared her stories
-Tituba's stories/games/etc.

Yeah...
Help on finding information about any/all of the above would be awesome. But I hate the subject, so I don't expect you to want to look up this stuff.
Thanks.

[nathan_p]

I adore history :D

Off the top of my head I can give you a few specifics.

- A family would be up by dawn, individual members probably before to take care of milking, collecting eggs, other farm chores.

- On the inside, compared to today and to Victorian houses, a Puritan house would be very bare and very dark. Wooden floors. A table with benches to sit at -- Father might have a chair of his own. A fire with a cook-pot hung over it. Very little light -- it all has to come through windows which will be sealed in some fashion against the cold, and candles are pretty much all you have otherwise. The beds will be pretty rough, with mattresses stuffed with straw or whatever was soft and available. Family members sleep many to a bed for warmth and economy. Overall, think wood, lots of wood. There will be shelves with keepsakes or a very few books: they will own a copy of the Bible, possibly Pilgrim's Progress.

- A girl would wear a dress and a pinafore or apron. You've probably seen Alice in Wonderland: a pinafore is the white garment Alice wears pinned before her dress. The apron, though, looks pretty much like our modern apron: a kind of t-shirt look at the neck and upper arms, covering the front of the dress and tied behind. The pinafore and apron exist to keep the dress clean, since she probably only has three or so dresses: two for daily wear, one nice for church and other fancy occasions. She'll also wear rough stockings at least in the winter, though she may well go barefoot if the family's too poor for shoes. However, I would hazard a bet that even if she doesn't own shoes for everyday, she owns decent stockings and one pair of shoes for church.And her dresses will be rather long by our standards, though until she reaches adulthood they'll still stop short of the ankles.

- Punishment of children, probably a switching for 'being bad', which could be almost anything. Most Puritan children would learn fast what is and isn't bad: disrespecting your parents, especially Father; playing on Sunday; smarting off to your teacher in school or otherwise backtalking an adult; disobeying instructions given. Children are to be seen and not heard.

Other than that, I'd have to go hunt down my books, which I will do... in a minute. >.>;;

[Contradiction]

:DDD

Thank you. So much.

Oh, also, what they ate for each meal and when they ate. >.>