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Nikoletta

Jul 31, 2007, 1:04 PM
Here in the 8th Circle of Hell.

E-Mail is down.

The Ordering Software is... spotty (which means 5 minute orders take 20 before it crashes and you have to go to backup.)

We're 59 in cue.

We haven't gone below 12 in cue in over a week.

I am out of yarn... (So I can't even distract myself by making a bondage mask or something.)

On the Up Side... They're serving sandwiches in the break room. Great. ๐Ÿคจ

If I make it through this week without killing somebody we'll be doing good.
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craptacularwireless

Jul 31, 2007, 2:33 PM
Bondage mask? Oh my?
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Nikoletta

Jul 31, 2007, 2:47 PM
Well.. that's what it looks like.

I do ren-faire style camping but at night it gets friggen cold. Since I don't like to be cold I try to avoid that part. Mostly I'm ok... I have a great sleeping bag, lots of blankets (two wool ones) and a boyfriend to cuddle with. But my head and nose are forever cold. I try wearing a hat to bed and wrapping up to keep my nose warm but that never works. The wrapping gets pulled away, the hats come off... and I wake up with a cold nose!

So I'm making something new. It started as a hat, then got longer, until it comes down over my eyes and nose and neck, with only an opening for my mouth so I can breath. It looks like a bondage mask. (I even made it a little rounded to accommodate my hose)

I do...
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chkchkchk

Jul 31, 2007, 2:56 PM
What's Ren-Faire camping? ๐Ÿคจ
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Nikoletta

Jul 31, 2007, 2:59 PM
Basically we all get together, dress up like it's the middle-ages and watch the boys hit each other with sticks wrapped in duct tape.

They get big bruises, we point and laugh, then at night all the grown-ups get smashed and party until the sun comes up.
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chkchkchk

Jul 31, 2007, 3:00 PM
Sounds like a good time
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Nikoletta

Jul 31, 2007, 4:20 PM
It's how I met my boyfriend.
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d3ity

Aug 1, 2007, 1:58 PM
Tell me you're not involved in that SCA type stuff...

Creepiest people you will ever meet. Swear to god. It's just like monty python's holy grail, except not funny. They carry swords around and refer to all women as wenches... Have the distinct odor of mead oozing from thier pores...
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Nikoletta

Aug 1, 2007, 2:24 PM
I am Scadian. (which would mean, yes, I am in the SCA, have been for about seven years.)

We don't refer to all women as Wenches... in fact, I believe if you called a woman a Wench within the hearing of any male (particularly a male in armor) you're likely to get beaten at the least and thrown out most likely. It's usually m'lady, Lady, Your Grace, Your Excellence, Your Highness, or Your Majesty... depending on their awards and position in court.

The only time that people smell bad is at the end of a 3 day camping event with no running water, and even then we try to bathe anyways... in May we were boiling water on the stove to fill the shower bags so we could take turns washing up. That... and we don't drink a lot of mead... it's hard...
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ralph_on_me

Aug 1, 2007, 2:29 PM
There are some women who play wenches at Ren Faires, but we never use that word derogatorily against them.
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Nikoletta

Aug 1, 2007, 3:32 PM
Oh we have women who DRESS the part (I have a bar-maid/wench costume that comes out on rare occasions... usually for the boyfriend.) but you don't use that term if you don't want to be drop-kicked.

It's the chivalry thing... hell! I was setting up camp alone one time and had three guys come by and "M'lady, let me help you with that!" Before I really knew what was going on, they were setting up my tent and I was sorting totes. I also have a hard time going to the bathroom (the biffies as we say, or port-o-johns) alone, they guys who are camping with us make a habit of one of them escorting a lady if she leaves the camp alone, it's cute really, I am safer running around at a camping event by myself than almost anywhere in the world.

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ralph_on_me

Aug 1, 2007, 3:55 PM
I think you SCAers are more polite than us Rennies.
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Nikoletta

Aug 1, 2007, 4:27 PM
Sometimes... not always. Just as crazy but in a different way.
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Nikoletta

Aug 1, 2007, 4:28 PM
It helps that I'm female, not married, and was wearing a low-cut top during the tent-set-up incident.
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ralph_on_me

Aug 1, 2007, 4:31 PM
The difference between SCAers and Rennies in this situation is that you were wearing a top.
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Nikoletta

Aug 1, 2007, 5:16 PM
ahh, we do try and wear at least a bra-top most of the time.
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Ask The Shack

Aug 1, 2007, 8:39 AM
Sounds like you're making a Balaclava. Wanna make me one? ๐Ÿ™‚
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Nikoletta

Aug 1, 2007, 9:55 AM
Well the only opening is for the mouth... But like I said, I'm going to be selling the little creeps when I get them down.
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