I love it when my studies meet my real life!

[1863_project]

Okay, the history camp I volunteer at during the summer just got better this year. Check out Week 2:

Step into the shoes of a child living in the 1850s! Learn about the time when “cotton was king” with different activities, including: building a simple machine, spinning and weaving, and playing that “new” game, base ball. At the end of the week,

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[piney61]

WHAT HO IS THIS DEMONRY! *points to sky*

/couldn't resist

[1863_project]

...I may need to yell that, if only to confuse a bunch of kids aged 6-11. It would rock. (Whenever my reenacting group plays, we all start randomly quoting that thing...)

[samuraikitten]

wow.. so you like baseball and the Civil War... holy shit how much more awesome could you get? I am obsessed with the civil war!!

[1863_project]

It's a lot of fun to research...I really want to get into the Cooperstown archives to get at the really early 1860s records, because that's what I'm trying to work with. (I actually play by 1860s rules with my reenacting group when I'm back on campus...it's so fun!)

[samuraikitten]

cool!!!

I am a huge Gone With the Wind/Beulah Land freak.. you have no idea LOL

[1863_project]

I absolutely love the strategy that goes into everything...I'm actually planning to be a military historian, although my favorite period is actually the Napoleonic Wars (I need to go to grad school to take care of that bit...!). I love reenacting, though...it's such a joy.

[soprano_no_eiji]

That is really cool. Why can't we have cool things like that?

Oh, and I'm talking about the spinning and weaving, because everyone knows how exciting that is.

(OK, maybe I'm kidding about the spinning and weaving and now I want to go see 1850's baseball at Old Bethpage.)

[1863_project]

Spinning and weaving - SO INTENS.

(I found a site online where I could buy the old equipment - and I am SO DOING IT. And making myself an old school uniform. And then taking the guys with me to camp and making them wear the old school uniforms, too, whether they like it or not, because they will look AWESOME.)

[soprano_no_eiji]

I HAVE DONE IT BEFORE AND IT JUST MADE MY LIFE SO MUCH MORE EXCITING.

(That is so awesome! I can't wait to hear about it. Because it WILL BE AWESOME, you are right.)

[1863_project]

I'M SURE IT DID. I MIGHT GET TO TEACH LITTLE KIDS HOW TO DO IT, WHICH WILL BE...well, not very exciting, to be honest, but...

(And the best part is that since it's not really a power game yet there will be LOTS OF BUNTING. And I just get this feeling that Sakaeguchi is probably really good with little kids somehow, so he'll be very useful to me...)

[horsecrazyliza]

i can haz mor baysbawl nurdynes plz?

I think that's the second time I've used an "i can haz" phrase in the last three hours or so. Yeesh.

[1863_project]

I love using those jokingly sometimes, though! They can be fun...(Yeah, I spend too much time on the internet now. Wow.)

I found a place where I can get the 1860s equipment, so I might invest in that and then make myself the 1860s-style uniform to play in...it'll be easier than trying to catch for both sides in a dress that I can't move in, that's for sure!

[horsecrazyliza]

I have to stop myself from saying them aloud. Heh.

That's awesome! (I have to wear a dress as "Juliet" for my English class... if I can find one, that is.)

[1863_project]

...I actually do say them out loud. Apparently I live in internet-land or something.

(A "Juliet dress?" At least that one might pop up at a costume shop...I have to try to be authentic, and that's hard and sometimes very irritatingly expensive...)

[sheep_mambo]

WOW! That...is an awesome subject and I can't wait to read your thesis if you post it. Such an interesting topic.

I'm an 1860s Japanese history geek :D.

[1863_project]

The 1860s are just made of win, aren't they? (If I ever get the thing published, I'll definitely link to it - it's a year or two off from being written, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't start the fun research parts early...)