Today I am starting from my new blog at http://twaberry.blogspot.com/ and transferring to http://me-actor-ug.livejournal.com/ . It shouldn't effect the layout or anything but I'm doing it and thought to myself "you're reading my blog, you might care". It also gives me a way to point at the new shiny blog.

I need to recap the weekend and in typical me fashion I will go on at length, enjoy.

Friday- I woke up at 9:30 and drug myself around rediscovering the wonders of breakfast and trying to decide whether this had been worth it. Once I managed to get myself out of the house I drove down to Salvation army. There were only two tankard and trencher sets left. I nabbed them but I wish there had been more. Work was work-y. I didn't really have any impetus to do anything. I read over my beginnings of stories in hopes of sparking some inspiration but with no luck. I ended up mostly just sitting around staring into space, which, it seems, I am paid to do.

After work I cooked up a breast of chicken in mustard which I simply rubbed on. With some lemon juice and lemon pepper it made a lovely flavour. I was forced to eat it as a sandwich for convenience though. I packed up and The car departed at 7:35 or so. The standard campsite hanging out was done. The Faire site was on a water usage advisory this weekend. As a result the water wasn't turned on when I went to take a shower. More accurately I should say the hot water wasn't turned on. I turned in upon returning.

Saturday- The day started at about 7:30 it looked to be a good day weather wise though I was skeptical considering what I had experienced the week previous. It would prove to be just as nice as everyone had predicted.

A few things need to be defined as preface to the weekend.
-my family, Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa and Weston, came to town to visit the faire.
-Eva came to visit for her birthday
-Emma took a patron day and as such will take less part in Saturday's post than pleases me.
-I had G.P. duty for the first time.

I think that will do it. Those things being said I started the day. I hit the will call office to set up tickets for everyone who came to visit me. I paid for a ticket for Eva and set up all my comp tickets for my family. Just as I stepped bak out of that gate Kate, the Costume designer, walked by with a stack of comp tickets. Upon seeing me she pulled three off the stack and said "thank you for helping with the household costume build" it took me about two seconds to turn around and get my money back and insert the new free ticket in its place.

Opening was interesting as I was watching for familiar faces as well as greeting the masses with my name and ocupation. As an homage to my yeoman days I really threw myself into the morning. I walked more and said more and did more new stuff in that morning than I ever have before.
Highlights-
-The wonder of a captive audience. I noticed a bunch of people eating at the new benches near KK. There wasn't anything going on and they looked pretty bored so I jogged up, caught my breath and thanked them all for waiting. I then did my best impression of William Shatner at a Star Trek convention. "Yes Hello, thank you for coming to see me" "Yes, I am Captain Frobisher" I think I counted 8 landmasses named in the space of five minutes and two new languages discovered. one of which had only two words, "yo" and "ho" which I was assisted in by Laura, the town crier.
-Discovered how beautiful the "Midsummer Knight's Dream" shop is inside. They have a little courtyard and everything.
- Wooed a lot. not the least of which was a small band of young women led by Emma. I stopped the shouting I was doing and made for them. Landmasses were named, wooing was done and I got to use the line I had prepared for the occasion, "Your beauty is like the sun, when I se it I am blinded to all other women. " what I could not have planned was the actual sun being iun my eyes at the time. Emma took off her hat to block it from my face and made a great joke to the effect of "no that's just the sun in your eyes" and there was much rejoicing.
-hung out with street people backstage, something I've been missing. My guilde is fun and has lots of perks but even with our hugeness we cannot compete with the dynamic people of the criers, street or fantasticals.

I was late to parade muster because I was having so much fun but I got down in time to have jumped in line. I had thought I needed my GP sash though so I ran frantically back into the priory to find one. everyone was supremely unhelpful with finding them until finally someone told me not to worry about it. I walked up the back way and met up with the parade ending. It was then that I was informed that I needn't have worried because we don't actually start GPing until after feast. I wish someone had mentioned that before.

It was good to hang out with mary again and a trip to see tartanic was nice. We stayed for most of the show and though I didn't pay a lot of attention due to trying to keep track of Dad and Weston who dropped by at that point and introducing Liz to Dad. I also was in the middle of watering the other GPs since I was third. Liz was nice enough to give me the last of her lemonade which was passed between the GPs.

I had been slated to tell my bell story at banquet but we hadn;t gotten to it. when we got to late glade though Aaron needed it to finish out the time. I got to tell my story about tricking an inuit into coming close by throwing bells into the water and grabbing him, kayak and all, to take home to England. The punchline was bipart. It was suppose to go "and the best part, your majesty, is that he had some bells with him so here they are, the first treasures of the new world" insert queen comment about, weren't those your bells. response "Oh, yes... The best part, your majesty, is I got my bells back."

After closing I hung about for a while and then went to see the family at the Grand Geneva Resort. Mom made some adjustments to my slops. The leg bands had been constricting me and making it impossible to pull the pants all the way up. This had been causing other problems. She also added on my new codpiece which is immense. It was good to see everyone and actually get to talk to them at any length. I stayed in the suite for the night and had Dad wake me up at 6:30 to head off to the site.

Sunday- was Froberrific. I got in at 7:50 and was ready to go for morning prep and dressing. I put on the suit and as I was putting on my boots when the inseam of my slops tore apart fully from band to crotch. this was, needless to say, problematic. I therfore did not finish putting on the suit. Instead I opted to go up the the costume shop to address the problem. Kate pointed me at a sewing machine with glod thread on it and told me to go ahead. I, therefore, repaired the problem myself and did it heavily. I got down to stage level and had one of Kate's apprentices help me safety pin my cuffs. I was missing the morning meeting but it needed to be done. midway through my name was called for the Poster child award. I didn't hear but apparently there were calls for the frobie dance and Susan said nice things about me. I missed it but am flattered all the same. I may ask her if I can make it up to everyone and frobe dance next morning meeting. The other thing I missed was the announcement that the T-walk I had instigated was to be that day. Grrr. bloody pants.

I changed up my routine today. I dropped by the Madrigal show and tried to get patrons to stand still for the singing. we managed to get a large group precisely as the set was ending, Grrr.

It meant that I could get an early grab on Liz and Emma though. we didn't maraude much but what we did was fun. My feet weren't tired yet either so I could keep up with Liz's indomitable pace.It was very good to hang with the two of them after our time apart. I also scoped out some perfumery shops. Middle of the day stuff took my time. pardes, feast and the like. at presentation I made a codpeice joke which was followed by another from Sir henry Lee that got Me, Lee, and Raleigh sent to stand near the wall. we, being smart alecks, did so with gusto. we stood there, facing that wall for what felt like half an hour. we stayed through the end of the presentations, through the presntation of the food and the grace after which we said "amen" really loudly to get the queen's attention. It wasn;t funny as any of us had thought it would be. oh well.

I sang my new song for the feast and broke mary a little. I need to print it up on something nice and do it again though because I didn't project enough which meant the words were lost. While joust was happening I snuck Liz out of the glade so she could maraude with Tyrwhitt, her character's soon to be husband. I then ran some arrands. I did some bits and scoped out the flower shop and perfume shops.

After joust Emma and I snuck out of the glade and I hid her behind a tree from Sandra (who playes her superior in household). We then looked in at kamala to be nice then went to the perfumery in queens kitchens to pick out the frobescent. After much deliberation and fun we decided on the one I had liked the last time I'd been there, "Highland Rogue". Emma is beginning to participate in the bits more. Soon she will be doing them on her own. I stepped on her toes again I think.

We came back with time to spare and got into a game of ninepins while waiting for the queen and company. I managed to rip out my other inseam in the process. joy. Grrr.
Late Glade had myself and Lady Chandos doing a translation bit. This game is a classic and we had fun with it. the preface held that I had taught her the inuit language and was now going to talk to the queen in inuit and she would translate. We did some greeting, queen flattery and talked about the many words for snow. If there had been an end to the bit it would have been very good. as it was we ended with "I think that's it" which was lame but neccessary.

I then went up for the early post at evening sing. Everything went well and I was happy to discover that for the second day in a row I was not exhausted at the final parade. Huzzah!

Glade packup went well and after I got myself packed Alexis and I joined the crew at culvers. I discoverd the joy of their Reuben sanwiches and got to hang out with people in an out of character and awesome capacity.

Today- I went to work and stared off into space for four hours. I managed to get NPR on the crappy radio which made me happy. I came home and waited around for about an hour to get in because I had, once again, left my keys in my room. that makes four mondays in a row now. I made some Ramen then went to join Nachiket for "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which is an awesome movie. I liked it a lot and highly recomend it. If you liked "The Whole Nine Yards", "Oceans Eleven" or "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" you will likely enjoy this.

-There you have it, now have it-

Today's Gem of the internet- An actual website, that's madness. There is a lot of content on todays site and it's awesome, so enjoy.
http://www.avenueqthemusical.co.uk/homepage.php

Today's Word O' The Day- Plurisign
A ‘sign’ or word used with more than one meaning simultaneously: opp. MONOSIGN. Hence plurisignation, plurisignative a., plurisignatively adv. Also plurisignification.