My first game of the weekend was Saturday morning, Midsummer Mischief run by captainecchi and electric_monk.

I had a lot of fun in this game. I played Constance Keeble, the horrible sister of Lord Emsworth, and it was a perfect cast. I am by nature a mean, nasty person, and I was carrying a lot of rage and frustration from the previous week, so the opportunity to be the bad ( Read more... )

I did not attend SLAW last year due to being busy, tired, and not terribly impressed with the schedule of games. But this year Sarah Judd put together an excellent lineup for the con, and I was incredibly glad I came. Exhaustion and everything!

Friday night was A Crown of Hearts, by wired_lizard. She is a phenomenal larp writer, and when I heard surdayhe had ( Read more... )

A while ago I got my casting hint for captainecchi's new larp, Cracks in the Orb, which will be debuting at SLAW this November. I will be playing Esaline, Issola lady and seneschal to the Viscount of Glassmoor. That doesn't mean much to me yet, as all I have is the hint, and I'm not familiar with the Dragaera novels on which the game is based, but what I know ( Read more... )

Awesome 4th of July party this past weekend. The food was delicious, the company was great, and I very much appreciated the chance to swim in the nearby lake. My bikini doesn't get nearly enough time to come out and play; once a year is really not enough. It was one of the best social events I've attended in quite some time. Congrats to captainecchi and electric_d_monk for ( Read more... )

Tonight I have the good fortune have the multi-talented captainecchi coming over for dinner, and she has agreed to give me some instruction to boost my slowly developing sewing skills. I am very excited for the company and for the crafting! Last night I finally had some time to myself with no other obligations, so I took a crack at some of my projects.

( Work on Jared's apron, then on Steph's )

I went and saw Richard III last night at the Huntington Theater in a lovely trip organized by captainecchi-- so glad she suggested it! In fact, you can read her impressions of the show here, which match up very much with mine, so much so I was tempted to just let her speak for me and agree with everything she wrote! But for posterity I am recording my own ( Read more... )

So I have decided to dive right in and try to sew something. I am attempting to make a "full, gathered skirt" as directed here by my new hero Gertie of Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing. I am doing several silly things on this project. The first is that though I should probably wait for my mom to send me her sewing machine, which would make this ( Read more... )

Played in Leash this past Saturday. I must say, though I had my reservations, I ended up really enjoying it. My character had a strong BDSM element to it, and while I was not bothered by that fact, I knew it was going to take some boldness on my part to be able to act like that toward other people in public without feeling totally embarrassed. But ( Read more... )

Okay, so I didn't really follow my plan (such as it was) when it came to signing up for stuff at SLAW last night. I ended up going with Martha Stewart on Friday, The Sound of Drums and Clarence on Saturday, and In the Jungle on Sunday. I blame natbudin, captainecchi, and electric_d_monk as bad influences, since I did my signing up while I was at the Fantasycraft game with them last ( Read more... )

Parents will be coming into town today. The timing is good, as they will be claiming the majority of my time from now until Sunday evening, so I will be busy during the same period Jared is busy in Albany visiting Sharone. That means I will have less time to call him at the same time as he has less time to call me. He should be busy doing fun ( Read more... )