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Jun. 23rd, 2001 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowsongjust got back from rebecca's party... the food was soooooo good. she made guacamole, which was delicious, and there were all sorts of olives which i ate a vast amount of, and some sort of shrimp concoction, and a fancy pasta salad, and mussels with thai salsa to go on them.... it was all very gourmet and stuff. yum. and her friends are nifty. a third married couples, a third gay couples, and a third single people.
before that, i went to stierbach baronial birthday. it took me 45 minutes to get there, which was insane, and it was raining, which sucked, and i got there a few minutes after the fencing tournament was supposed to start, and then i realized i didn't have my fighter cards. lots of suckage. but then i went down to the list field and discovered that the fencers had appropriated a cabin, and the mol had my name on a list of authorized fencers, so i got my gear and did some fighting. marcellus forgot to bring my doublet, though. bad man. :) i'll get it tomorrow. it was a round robin tourney instead of a progressive one, so everyone fought everyone. i think i was about even on wins and losses. i beat thomas lyon, which surprised me, but maybe i should have expected it because i've been fencing with him enough that i'm learning his style. i hadn't fenced much with any of the other people, even though i knew quite a few of them.. well, a few, anyway.
wandered around afterwards, bought a nice wooden incense burner for a dollar (i love it when merchants are open to bargaining. if only i could learn how to do it.... the last few times i've tried, they've accepted my first offer) and found a woman who does middle eastern and gave me some pointers on the garb, as well as her email... i think she fences, because there's a practice at her house on wednesdays. now if only i can figure out where that is... :)
i had to leave before court... it was supposed to start at 4, and i would have been able to see the first 15 minutes, but the schedule was revised to run 30 minutes late, so i just left at 4. oh, and i found out how to wrap a turban. yay me.
i decided that i need to get various sheaths and stuff so that i can carry an obscene amount of blades when i'm in garb. yay pointy things.
before that, i went to stierbach baronial birthday. it took me 45 minutes to get there, which was insane, and it was raining, which sucked, and i got there a few minutes after the fencing tournament was supposed to start, and then i realized i didn't have my fighter cards. lots of suckage. but then i went down to the list field and discovered that the fencers had appropriated a cabin, and the mol had my name on a list of authorized fencers, so i got my gear and did some fighting. marcellus forgot to bring my doublet, though. bad man. :) i'll get it tomorrow. it was a round robin tourney instead of a progressive one, so everyone fought everyone. i think i was about even on wins and losses. i beat thomas lyon, which surprised me, but maybe i should have expected it because i've been fencing with him enough that i'm learning his style. i hadn't fenced much with any of the other people, even though i knew quite a few of them.. well, a few, anyway.
wandered around afterwards, bought a nice wooden incense burner for a dollar (i love it when merchants are open to bargaining. if only i could learn how to do it.... the last few times i've tried, they've accepted my first offer) and found a woman who does middle eastern and gave me some pointers on the garb, as well as her email... i think she fences, because there's a practice at her house on wednesdays. now if only i can figure out where that is... :)
i had to leave before court... it was supposed to start at 4, and i would have been able to see the first 15 minutes, but the schedule was revised to run 30 minutes late, so i just left at 4. oh, and i found out how to wrap a turban. yay me.
i decided that i need to get various sheaths and stuff so that i can carry an obscene amount of blades when i'm in garb. yay pointy things.