Estrella

[learnteach]

Means little star. I think I saw them. Achieved the basic plan: Fight, drink, sing, sleep, repeat.
Also wrote poetry, flirted, and did Pelican stuff. The only downside: had trouble sleeping due to the cold; need to make better/warmer sleeping arrangements.

Arrived Thursday night, picked up by C at the airport, who whisked us off to a grocery store where much good food was found, including some very nice inexpensive wines--esp. a leibframilch and a cabsyrlot. Ate dinner at "Shogun", a poor restaurant experience, but the company was grand. Discussed various things. Wandered out to site, found the space, found my stuff from the truck, set up, dressed, went over to the Wench.

Got into several interesting conversations, started drinking wine that BTw, a rapier fighter, offered. Wrote some poems on a napkin based on the conversations at the table, not the best, but to an interesting point. Finally remembered how I knew Rh+, oy! for a better memory. I knew her as a woman who looked too young to be drinking; now she's a women who looks to young to be married, with children. I guess I just think she looks too young!

Got up the next morning, discovered no cup or card, but Hamish loaned me the emergency cup, and got armored and out there after helping set up Royal and getting fed by Hilarie the Food Puppetteer.

Fought, fought, fought, got some kills, stayed with the units, but really have to lose the weight to have the energy.

More later....short summary:

Fighting: Know what needs to be fixed.
Singing: Bawdy Bardic LMAO funny. Learned about 5 new songs, discovered in the wench a singer I need to follow up on.
Poetry: Need to work on my handwriting; need to carry paper worth passing on.
Clothing: New undertunics, fighting hose, warm sleeping hood and gloves?
Camp: Must get Table. So elegant! Make one! Ra.
Flirting: Do more.
Drinking: Wine is very nice.

More later, including a couple poems.

Comments

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

JT quote of the weekend for me:
"No, no, no! Safety THIRD! Sex and drugs are first and second, THEN safety. Then rock and roll."

[daibhidhbeag.livejournal.com]

So that's where I remember seeing the tat picture :-)

-Hamish

Alas, I didn't follow up on that.

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

That's actually from Burning Man, which Estrella is to some degree, especially if you listen to the people who got to camp next to the bluefeathers.

Alas, all I got was safety and rock & roll as well...

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as i was shaking dust out of my undertunic for the 3rd time I was pondering the legendary dust of Burning Man and wondering if this even compared.

Re: Alas, all I got was safety and rock & roll as well...

[d-mon-chick.livejournal.com]

Estrella dirt and dust is significant but as someone who's experienced both it doesn't compare to the horrible insidiousness of Burning Man dirt and dust.

Both are worth it to attend the associated events, however.

Re: Alas, all I got was safety and rock & roll as well...

[noressa.livejournal.com]

Burning man dust is easily solved by a vinegar rinse.

Until the next gust of wind happens.

[channel6.livejournal.com]

Rhy went on and on how this is the SCA's Burning Man. She was suitably impressed by it--dust and all.

[channel6.livejournal.com]

And of course she looks too young--she's the Fairie Queen, after all!

[ladybrid.livejournal.com]

Patently unfair that she is older than me, and has been a fast friend the entirety of my SCA experience... and she now looks a good 10 years younger!!