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Quick little Pennsic highlight reel, I'll go into more detail later.
Spent most of my time sitting in camp melting. Also spent some time melting on runestone hill. All in all, most of the time spent melting. Did not make it down the hill at all during the day. Spent one short evening at Alyce's place. Circled the lake once at 2 or 3 am and found no one at home (or everyone asleep) as even the bar at Vlad's had closed when I got there. Thus, missed out on seeing Arnora and meeting her fiancee - bummer, maybe next year. Medb, I looked for you and saw you once in the middle of teaching a class (I chose not to interrupt). Sorry I didn't at least get to say "hi". I think I managed to at least say a quick hello to everyone else I had hoped to spend time with.
Quite enjoyed camp farthingale. Food plan was great. Company was fine. Location location location baby! Wasn't even too angry at myself when I got to the battle field without ID, no biggie at all to return to camp to fetch it. Fought in one tourney and one battle, which was quite enough considering all the other things I had to do and my complete lack of skill doesn't make fighting too much fun anyway. Maybe next year I won't suck as much and it will be more fun.
Did a few classes. Far fewer than in previous war. See above note about melting. Living up North means that instead of being acclimatized to the heat and doing quite alright in it, I spend all my time melting. Not that I minded the heat really, it was nice to actually have a summer. But it made me tired and lazy. Oh so very lazy.
But not too lazy to shop! Of course not! Bought so much stuff that I couldn't declare it all at the border. "Those books, oh, no, I brought those with me to teach classes with, yeah, that's where they came from. And I brought all that jewelery from home too" Not that they checked anyway, they never do. Coming back into Canada I think we had a total of 5 questions. Jason and I just look really trustworthy I guess. Little do they know I smuggled WAY too many purchases back, and I (accidentally) brought Canadian beef across the border. It came home with me and never left the car anyway, but it still crossed American soil.
Have come to the conclusion that I packed too much and that some things were probably a real waste of space. Thus, the important list of things not to bring to next Pennsic:
Lawn games (bocce and croquet) seemed like a good idea to play period games on Runestone hill, but no one ever had time to play them with me, or it was too hot for anyone to want to play
My archery equipment Jason will walk up the hill to shoot, I will not. There are too many other things to keep me busy. Two years I've brought it with me, total arrows shot at Pennsic: 0
The Tudor gown Kinda fun, but in the heat I can only wear it in the evening. Also gets really filthy and will require lots of time-consuming cleaning. And requires an entire Tupperware to get it there. All in all, not worth hauling it around and the space would be better used for other things
Lampworking stuff Sure, lampworking is one of my favourite stress-releases, but it is probably best saved for doing at home. Working outdoors with the breezes and poor lighting (either too much or too little) was difficult and the ambient heat meant I burnt some of my colours. There are lots of other people willing to teach it, so I won't try that again. And any time I spend playing with glass, which I can do at home, just takes away from time I could spend with friends, whom I can't see all year.
If I remove the above-mentioned items and the mundane camping equipment, I can probably easily accommodate the period pavilion I've got my eyes set on. Now, to see what my bank account looks like before I make a decision on that...
Now, to see about actually getting some work in today.
Spent most of my time sitting in camp melting. Also spent some time melting on runestone hill. All in all, most of the time spent melting. Did not make it down the hill at all during the day. Spent one short evening at Alyce's place. Circled the lake once at 2 or 3 am and found no one at home (or everyone asleep) as even the bar at Vlad's had closed when I got there. Thus, missed out on seeing Arnora and meeting her fiancee - bummer, maybe next year. Medb, I looked for you and saw you once in the middle of teaching a class (I chose not to interrupt). Sorry I didn't at least get to say "hi". I think I managed to at least say a quick hello to everyone else I had hoped to spend time with.
Quite enjoyed camp farthingale. Food plan was great. Company was fine. Location location location baby! Wasn't even too angry at myself when I got to the battle field without ID, no biggie at all to return to camp to fetch it. Fought in one tourney and one battle, which was quite enough considering all the other things I had to do and my complete lack of skill doesn't make fighting too much fun anyway. Maybe next year I won't suck as much and it will be more fun.
Did a few classes. Far fewer than in previous war. See above note about melting. Living up North means that instead of being acclimatized to the heat and doing quite alright in it, I spend all my time melting. Not that I minded the heat really, it was nice to actually have a summer. But it made me tired and lazy. Oh so very lazy.
But not too lazy to shop! Of course not! Bought so much stuff that I couldn't declare it all at the border. "Those books, oh, no, I brought those with me to teach classes with, yeah, that's where they came from. And I brought all that jewelery from home too" Not that they checked anyway, they never do. Coming back into Canada I think we had a total of 5 questions. Jason and I just look really trustworthy I guess. Little do they know I smuggled WAY too many purchases back, and I (accidentally) brought Canadian beef across the border. It came home with me and never left the car anyway, but it still crossed American soil.
Have come to the conclusion that I packed too much and that some things were probably a real waste of space. Thus, the important list of things not to bring to next Pennsic:
Lawn games (bocce and croquet) seemed like a good idea to play period games on Runestone hill, but no one ever had time to play them with me, or it was too hot for anyone to want to play
My archery equipment Jason will walk up the hill to shoot, I will not. There are too many other things to keep me busy. Two years I've brought it with me, total arrows shot at Pennsic: 0
The Tudor gown Kinda fun, but in the heat I can only wear it in the evening. Also gets really filthy and will require lots of time-consuming cleaning. And requires an entire Tupperware to get it there. All in all, not worth hauling it around and the space would be better used for other things
Lampworking stuff Sure, lampworking is one of my favourite stress-releases, but it is probably best saved for doing at home. Working outdoors with the breezes and poor lighting (either too much or too little) was difficult and the ambient heat meant I burnt some of my colours. There are lots of other people willing to teach it, so I won't try that again. And any time I spend playing with glass, which I can do at home, just takes away from time I could spend with friends, whom I can't see all year.
If I remove the above-mentioned items and the mundane camping equipment, I can probably easily accommodate the period pavilion I've got my eyes set on. Now, to see what my bank account looks like before I make a decision on that...
Now, to see about actually getting some work in today.