The 48-Hour Guild Weekend
So the Faire went great. We has great performers and great characters and great newbies, and both my parents and some of my out of town friends made it, so basically good times were had by all. Our only real problem was with the weather: it rained hard in the morning right until opening, then it stopped mostly until Fight Show, then it started again and it POURED until two, then it stopped and the sun came out and it was gorgeous right up until maybe five minutes before the closing/final chessboard, at which point it got dark again and we all started looking at the sky apprehensively, but though it cold and windy it never actually opened up on us.
And of course, the minute Faire was over, the sun came out and shone down upon us most brightly. The very minute. Look, weather, fuck you.
After that we packed up and then went to Max & Erma's for our traditional Faire-is-ver-let's-rehash-and-have-fun dinner. I actually DROVE there, because, knowing I'm going to be spending the summer here in Columbus, my parents brought Joey (my '95 Ford Taurus) down for me! ♥JOEY ♥ Mommy missed you.
Dinner was good, I had a burger and we all talked and had shenanigans, and our rather flamboyent waiter flirted with Keith (who may or may not be a Viking/robot from the future) which I found very amusing.
The next morning, I again drive Joey (with some manuvering, because goddamn you railroad construction) to meet up with Guild again for breakfast. Stayed there with a rather large of people, chatting and laughing and reminiscing, until about two thirty, at which point...
"Hey, does anyone want to go see Iron Man?"
Next thing you know, me and a car-full of Very Tall People are driving to the movie theatre (ravin_raven giving directions as we go, since I'm used to navigating Columbus on foot). Four people met us there. Two more were contacted somehow and turned up. So that's like, a dozen Rennies taking up a full row of a movie theater (we went in only after amusing ourselves by watching Steve play DDR: "That song's called 'Renaissance'! You have to do it.").
The movie was awesome. I might make another post about it specifically later, but I might not be able to manage more than a whole lot of "CAN I GET A 'HELLZ YEAH'??" Suffice to say: I'm sure there were things that this movie did not do well, but I am hard-pressed to remember them, as the sheer amounts of AWESOME with a side order of BADASS totally blew them out of my mind. (After-the-credits scene? OH SHIT YUSS.)
So we got out of the movie, and by then it was six in the evening. And someone is like, "I'm hungry. Who wants to get dinner?"
So it's back to Joey, with six people total (including me) this time.
Now, I can techincally seat six legally, except it's sort of uneasy because the sixth "seat" is pretty much an extra seatbelt in a front seat really designed with only the comfort of two in mind. So Jenn is stuck basically strapped to the crease area between my seat and the passenger's, with no legroom and the dashboard right in her face. It doesn't feel very secure either.
So she's basically using Amanda as her human seatbelt and clinging to her for dear life all the way to Noodles, much to the amusement of anyone we drove past.
And then about two or three blocks from the parking garage, we see Sarah crossing the street right by us. And so we stop and are like, "Hey wanna come to dinner?"
So she hops in the backseat, body-surfing across Liz, Rob and Steve. With a cop car, we belatedly realize, not twenty feet away and facing us. As Amanda and Jenn basically grope each other in the front seat.
When we drove past the cop, I waved. I don't think he noticed.
So we parked, walked to Noodles, got food, found a nice grassy area, ate dinner and talked. Liz and Sarah took off.
The rest of us didn't want to go home, so we walked to Coldstone. I don't know about you guys but to me, something about the "design your own combination of ice cream" thing always feels like a bit of a dare. So I always end up coming up with the most "adventurous" things. This time: mint ice cream with gummi bears, white chocolate chips and coconut. I got some rather horrified looks.
I actually thought it was pretty good.
After Coldstone, Amanda went home. There were only four of us left, so we went and hung out on the Oval, talking and climbing trees and playing in the grass and trying to find stars.
I didn't get home until eleven thirty.
Now today, not only did I get plenty of sleep and wake up feeling very well-rested, but the weather is gorgeous, I found out the project I was dreading working on that's due tomorrow has been pushed back by a full week, I got a copy of volume one of Maus at a second-hand booksale for a dollar, and a short while ago I watched a large group of OSU students playing Heckle The Wacky Fundalmentalist Minister on the North Oval.
Today is a good day.
And of course, the minute Faire was over, the sun came out and shone down upon us most brightly. The very minute. Look, weather, fuck you.
After that we packed up and then went to Max & Erma's for our traditional Faire-is-ver-let's-rehash-and-have-fun dinner. I actually DROVE there, because, knowing I'm going to be spending the summer here in Columbus, my parents brought Joey (my '95 Ford Taurus) down for me! ♥JOEY ♥ Mommy missed you.
Dinner was good, I had a burger and we all talked and had shenanigans, and our rather flamboyent waiter flirted with Keith (who may or may not be a Viking/robot from the future) which I found very amusing.
The next morning, I again drive Joey (with some manuvering, because goddamn you railroad construction) to meet up with Guild again for breakfast. Stayed there with a rather large of people, chatting and laughing and reminiscing, until about two thirty, at which point...
"Hey, does anyone want to go see Iron Man?"
Next thing you know, me and a car-full of Very Tall People are driving to the movie theatre (ravin_raven giving directions as we go, since I'm used to navigating Columbus on foot). Four people met us there. Two more were contacted somehow and turned up. So that's like, a dozen Rennies taking up a full row of a movie theater (we went in only after amusing ourselves by watching Steve play DDR: "That song's called 'Renaissance'! You have to do it.").
The movie was awesome. I might make another post about it specifically later, but I might not be able to manage more than a whole lot of "CAN I GET A 'HELLZ YEAH'??" Suffice to say: I'm sure there were things that this movie did not do well, but I am hard-pressed to remember them, as the sheer amounts of AWESOME with a side order of BADASS totally blew them out of my mind. (After-the-credits scene? OH SHIT YUSS.)
So we got out of the movie, and by then it was six in the evening. And someone is like, "I'm hungry. Who wants to get dinner?"
So it's back to Joey, with six people total (including me) this time.
Now, I can techincally seat six legally, except it's sort of uneasy because the sixth "seat" is pretty much an extra seatbelt in a front seat really designed with only the comfort of two in mind. So Jenn is stuck basically strapped to the crease area between my seat and the passenger's, with no legroom and the dashboard right in her face. It doesn't feel very secure either.
So she's basically using Amanda as her human seatbelt and clinging to her for dear life all the way to Noodles, much to the amusement of anyone we drove past.
And then about two or three blocks from the parking garage, we see Sarah crossing the street right by us. And so we stop and are like, "Hey wanna come to dinner?"
So she hops in the backseat, body-surfing across Liz, Rob and Steve. With a cop car, we belatedly realize, not twenty feet away and facing us. As Amanda and Jenn basically grope each other in the front seat.
When we drove past the cop, I waved. I don't think he noticed.
So we parked, walked to Noodles, got food, found a nice grassy area, ate dinner and talked. Liz and Sarah took off.
The rest of us didn't want to go home, so we walked to Coldstone. I don't know about you guys but to me, something about the "design your own combination of ice cream" thing always feels like a bit of a dare. So I always end up coming up with the most "adventurous" things. This time: mint ice cream with gummi bears, white chocolate chips and coconut. I got some rather horrified looks.
I actually thought it was pretty good.
After Coldstone, Amanda went home. There were only four of us left, so we went and hung out on the Oval, talking and climbing trees and playing in the grass and trying to find stars.
I didn't get home until eleven thirty.
Now today, not only did I get plenty of sleep and wake up feeling very well-rested, but the weather is gorgeous, I found out the project I was dreading working on that's due tomorrow has been pushed back by a full week, I got a copy of volume one of Maus at a second-hand booksale for a dollar, and a short while ago I watched a large group of OSU students playing Heckle The Wacky Fundalmentalist Minister on the North Oval.
Today is a good day.