guenievre

Start stretching, we may need a dry jig. Giovann has a drum.

In related news, Pensic is wet, wet, wet. And the road behind camp is closed. Plan accordingly.

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P=Potter, Pennsic, Personality Type...
12am = release time of Harry Potter.
4 = Time in the morning I finished Potter, also the number of days 'till Pennsic...

Yes, I 've finished the book - I won't give any spoilers, other than I thought parts were predictable and was annoyed at the treatment of at least one character. (Y'all know which one, right?) And the epilogue? belonged in a bad fanfic. Anyway. (Was that a spoiler?)

4 days till Pennsic (well, there were when I started writing this, still are if you dont' count trolling in after we fly up on Friday. Am weirdly... calm about this year's Pennsic - everyone else is in frantic Pennsic prep mode and I'm just sort of...here. Not that I'm not doing anything for, but I'm just not frantic this year. Maybe it's b/c we're not staying the full time like last year, which was really intimidating, and now that I know we can do that...

And my personality type?

( Well, the little meme going around says: )

Not surprised at being ENFP; I tend to hang out on the border of E and I and I've always been strongly NFP (not that I've ever had the *real* test done, but...) I'm a bit surprised at being as stronly extraverted as it thinks I am, but I've come to the realization that in the past I had been skewing the test a bit because I *really* like being around my friends and fellow geeks of various sorts, it's just the rest of the world I find draining. ::shrug::

What's most surprising, for those of you who know us? argentlion and I share a type; which astounded both of us and will probably equally astound those who know us. ::shrug:: Not that this is a bad thing, just... very amusing.

Let's see... in other news, I think I *finally* grokked my bike gears and got over my fear of going fast... net result? we got to work in under 20 minutes, and that includes having to stop and move my bike lock (I had gotten N to install it and the spot it fit didn't work, banged into my thighs... back to the drawing board).

Off to do something useful...maybe. Does reading LJ count as useful?

This may change, and there's a couple that I'm still dithering about *which* to take...but these are the classes I want to take and for which I should be physically on-site( Cut for those who don't care )

but somehow I'm not sure. In some ways, I feel like I've been in a daze since I came back from Pennsic, just because Pennsic was SUCH an overwhelming experience. Which I still haven't written about, come to think of it...

OK, so Pennsic:

Pennsic was absolutely wonderful and yet vaguely disappointing at the same time. I had a blast, and yet in a lot of ways it was very much not what I expected. It was my first Pennsic, of course, which is why it wasn't what expected - I suppose that's true for everyone's first Pennsic though. Still...

I guess for this to make sense, I have to explain what I was actually expecting - I knew that there were parts of Pennsic that were period, and parts that were not. I think I expected both of those parts to be *more* of what they were - i.e. I expected the Bog/Swamp areas to be this hedonistic party area - kind of an intense medieval fantasy Mardi Gras, and I expected everywhere *else* to be everything the SCA could be - i.e. people to be well dressed (ok, so this is important to me), the classes to be wonderful, etc. etc. Needless to say, I was rather disappointed on both counts. The parties... well, maybe this is just me, but I had a hard time talking to new people at said parties, so it was kind of "wander around with those you know and watch those you don't". Amusing, but not for long.

On the "Serengheti" side of things, the word that springs to mind is... compromise. Yes, it was hot, but... does that *have* to mean that you switch personas and play middle eastern/ indian/ gypsy/bronze age etc? I mean, i admit - I did it too - but that was only b/c I wasn't prepared. Given a bit more investment in the right clothing, I think I *could* have stayed "in-persona" clothing wise all week - but it seems as though very few people thought that was important... so Pennsic looked more like a hippie convention than a medieval city... (NO, I don't have a problem with non-European personas - when researched well they're wonderful... I just hate it when they become the default).

So, while Pennsic didn't turn me off to the SCA, it did give me a rather lot to think about - and a certain determination to "do it right" next time...

So, meanwhile, this weekend I have to finally finish cleaning up the mess that Pennsic made of my apartment... and I'm being sucked into a Diablo quest, I think. Not a bad plan for being flat broke and having a good weekend, really. I would kind of like to get some sewing started, but I'm torn in three directions - tudor, bliaut, or Arnolfini houppelande. All of which sound fascinating, all of which I have fabric that would work for (except the outer gown of the tudor, but there's a lot to be done before that, so...)

For now, back to the grindstone...

So I haven't been updating - if you know me, this shouldn't be a surprise - short attention span and all that - ah well. So meanwhile I'm doing busywork at work, and I should be at home sewing if I had my 'druthers. Of course, if I was at home, I'd probably rationalize that "I don't need THAT much garb for pennsic" and start playing Diablo again.. that was my weekend.

and I'm beginning to hate my assassin... i mean, she can't kill anything!!!!

I'm looking forward to pennsic, but... i'm still kind of intimidated by the entire idea. I mean... jeez... it's over a week in a tent! oh well, if I hate it, we'll do something else next year...