Renn Fayre + Hotel Friendia!

[beautifulduckweed]

1. Much excitement and concurrent drastic decrease in sleep is the rule for this weekend, because OMG RENN FAYRE.¹

2. Because of OMG Renn Fayre, ariiadne and vyrin, who are part of the Meatsmoke crew, are in town! YAY! They stayed over last night, which was deeeelightful. Colin and I have determined that we need to participate in next year's Bring Your Own Big Wheel race. Plans to create an unholy tandem Big Wheel were discussed. Jess expressed doubts about joining us, but resistance is futile, because Colin and I, we are the Big Wheel Borg. (We will assimilate you...using giant plastic wheels that have a hilarious tendency to fail when bearing more than 80 lbs. of weight.) There's no way in hell we're going to actually finish first place in this race, so we're aiming for other prizes, like Most High-tech Big Wheel (given where Colin works, this should be a shoo-in), the most awesome costumes, the most spectacular crash and the most onlookers taken down during aforementioned spectacular crash.

Really, I don't know WHY Jess is hesitant. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

3. And also because of OMG RENN FAYRE, redsouffle and konomaigo! Arriving tonight! From Seattle! They'll be staying over at my place for the weekend, yay. I am Hotel Friendia!² Where it's all exclamation marks, all the time!

4. THIS WEEKEND = RADNESS!



¹ Many of you probably haven't heard of Reed College, but trust me that when Reedies scoff at the Ivy League as the pussy option, they're not necessarily overstating things. Reed graduates who go on to grad school are either pleasantly surprised at how easy it is, or highly indignant that their homework assignments require only 15-page analyses. Reed, as you can imagine, has a tendency to attract the highly intelligent, the highly eccentric and the highly workaholic, and the pressure cooker environment tends to inspire a fantastically dysfunctional love/hate relationship between the students and the school. And then all this built-up intensity explodes in this INSANE FUCKING PARTY at the end of the academic year. Once upon a time, it was actually a Renaissance-themed fair, but the name nowadays is just a formality. Nowadays, it's a huge 3-day party that usually has nothing to do with the Renaissance or fairs (this year's theme = Dr. Seuss, actually), wherein attendees engage in insect-eating contests, play human chess, wrestle each other in fat suits, flop around in giant lube-filled Slip 'n Slides, Pict (i.e., get naked, paint themselves blue and run around screaming), plus many other Wacky Adventures. And then there's the dancing; March Fourth, Lions of Batucada and Jason Webley typically make appearances. I have no idea what the schedule is going to be this year. I'm just going to wander around and be pleasantly surprised, or be dragged around by friends.

² Credit to ccarrico for coming up with that phrase.

Comments

[tarentel.livejournal.com]

Hey Miss Candy! Call me when you get to campus and we shall rejoice and dance around in circles. :)

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Fo' shizzle my sizzle. I'll likely go home, change into a pair of pants or at least a skirt that's a lot more washable than what I have right now, and then head over to party for a couple of hours before picking up Katie and Amos from the bus station.

[tarentel.livejournal.com]

Yay! And in the words of Webley, "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

If in doubt, head over to Camp Pirate and look for me there--I'm likely making that my default base of operations, because Jess and Colin will likely be there, and I don't get to spend nearly enough time with those two wacky bastards.

[bonobo23.livejournal.com]

Dude! It's been a long time since I had so much fun whacking anyone with a stick.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

HEE! Me, too. Here's to times in the future when we can DO BATTLE.

[nebula1500.livejournal.com]

Hi. Piezocuttlefish said I should friend you, so I did.

Hope that's OK...

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Of course that's OK. Glad to have you on board.