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Jul. 23rd, 2000 09:30 pmow. ow ow ow.
sca event. assessment. buena vista. saturday waytoofuckingearly to sunday 8.30.
well, i didn't authorize, cause everyone just glossed over the bit where you have to be an sca member before you can be authorized to fight. i'll have my membership by pennsic, though, so i can fight there.
mostly, i just sat by the edge of the fencing field and watched. in the sun. thus the "ow"s, cause i'm dumb and didn't put on sunblock till after i started burning, and even then i didn't put on enough. the backs of my hands are burned. the only other time that's happened was when i was canoeing from 11 to 3.
but it was fun, and i got to put on armor and do pick up fights when the tournament was over. i impressed people. :) however, when i was in my normal garb, i got hit on. a lot. and i guess people saw me hanging out with connor, cause they kept asking him if it was okay for them to flirt with me. he was amused. and has decided to adopt me and become my big brother, so he can beat people up if they're mean to me. heheh.
apparently almost *everyone* male and less than 20 years older than me was asking who i was. it wasn't that long ago when i was mousy and unattractive, so i'm still figuring out how to believe/deal with such attention. it's baffling, but fun.
there was feast, which was good. and there was dancing (the english country kind, you know, playford and all that), which was also good, although a whole two dances after i left they did my absolute favorite dance - offical bransle, also known as "toss the duchess." also known as the wench tossing dance. it's *fuuun*.
when it got really late, joshua also known as gypsy boy 2 (connor is gypsy boy), was hitting on me lots. ended up putting his arm around me, which was fine by me, but i was very good at keeping him from doing much of anything more, which i was very proud of, cause i have a hard time turning flirters down. however, while we were sitting on the end of the bench, connor was "asleep" next to me. made joshua a bit... discomfited. i was amused. and connor was just making sure that i wasn't doing anything i didn't want to. :) nice boy. (for a brother, that is. *my* boy's a nice boy for non brotherly reasons. :) )
so, yeah. we didn't get back in time for church. or the meeting for the psalm thing my mother volunteered me for. and she wasn't even angry cause no one else showed up at the meeting. so there.
i drove myself to rapier practice today and to the stitch and bitch afterwards, and home again. i only cut off one person! we were a lane apart, trying to change into the lane between us. i had my turn signal on, he didn't. i got the space, he went behind me. i didn't even know he was *there* - there were a bunch of us caravanning to the s'n'b, and they all saw it and mentioned it cause i was nervous about driving. but the guy could see what i was doing, and i couldn't tell that he was doing anything, so it wasn't my fault. all his fault. so there.
god, my sunburn hurts. and i need to work on defending my sword arm better - i got two big bruises yesterday and two smaller ones today, all on my bicep.
oh, and at the s'n'b, i got mockup pieces for a doublet, and instructions for a cotehardie. this makes me happy. now all i need is fabric. :)
okay i think i'm done now. time to sleep, cause i haven't had enough recently. mom's taking me to the metro tomorrow, so i can get up an hour later. oh, and andy's mom was home so he didn't get to come to practice. did he actually get a cup yet? i think so, but he didn't say. he *says* he'll be there on thursday, but i've been nagging him for almost a month now. i'm sure once he gets there he'll be hooked, though. ::eg:: and he'd better come to practice, cause i don't know when else this week i can see him.
sca event. assessment. buena vista. saturday waytoofuckingearly to sunday 8.30.
well, i didn't authorize, cause everyone just glossed over the bit where you have to be an sca member before you can be authorized to fight. i'll have my membership by pennsic, though, so i can fight there.
mostly, i just sat by the edge of the fencing field and watched. in the sun. thus the "ow"s, cause i'm dumb and didn't put on sunblock till after i started burning, and even then i didn't put on enough. the backs of my hands are burned. the only other time that's happened was when i was canoeing from 11 to 3.
but it was fun, and i got to put on armor and do pick up fights when the tournament was over. i impressed people. :) however, when i was in my normal garb, i got hit on. a lot. and i guess people saw me hanging out with connor, cause they kept asking him if it was okay for them to flirt with me. he was amused. and has decided to adopt me and become my big brother, so he can beat people up if they're mean to me. heheh.
apparently almost *everyone* male and less than 20 years older than me was asking who i was. it wasn't that long ago when i was mousy and unattractive, so i'm still figuring out how to believe/deal with such attention. it's baffling, but fun.
there was feast, which was good. and there was dancing (the english country kind, you know, playford and all that), which was also good, although a whole two dances after i left they did my absolute favorite dance - offical bransle, also known as "toss the duchess." also known as the wench tossing dance. it's *fuuun*.
when it got really late, joshua also known as gypsy boy 2 (connor is gypsy boy), was hitting on me lots. ended up putting his arm around me, which was fine by me, but i was very good at keeping him from doing much of anything more, which i was very proud of, cause i have a hard time turning flirters down. however, while we were sitting on the end of the bench, connor was "asleep" next to me. made joshua a bit... discomfited. i was amused. and connor was just making sure that i wasn't doing anything i didn't want to. :) nice boy. (for a brother, that is. *my* boy's a nice boy for non brotherly reasons. :) )
so, yeah. we didn't get back in time for church. or the meeting for the psalm thing my mother volunteered me for. and she wasn't even angry cause no one else showed up at the meeting. so there.
i drove myself to rapier practice today and to the stitch and bitch afterwards, and home again. i only cut off one person! we were a lane apart, trying to change into the lane between us. i had my turn signal on, he didn't. i got the space, he went behind me. i didn't even know he was *there* - there were a bunch of us caravanning to the s'n'b, and they all saw it and mentioned it cause i was nervous about driving. but the guy could see what i was doing, and i couldn't tell that he was doing anything, so it wasn't my fault. all his fault. so there.
god, my sunburn hurts. and i need to work on defending my sword arm better - i got two big bruises yesterday and two smaller ones today, all on my bicep.
oh, and at the s'n'b, i got mockup pieces for a doublet, and instructions for a cotehardie. this makes me happy. now all i need is fabric. :)
okay i think i'm done now. time to sleep, cause i haven't had enough recently. mom's taking me to the metro tomorrow, so i can get up an hour later. oh, and andy's mom was home so he didn't get to come to practice. did he actually get a cup yet? i think so, but he didn't say. he *says* he'll be there on thursday, but i've been nagging him for almost a month now. i'm sure once he gets there he'll be hooked, though. ::eg:: and he'd better come to practice, cause i don't know when else this week i can see him.