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pennsic!
We're back! It was fabulous. Yes, including the camping experience and definitely including my awesome peeps.
- The amazing smell of the whole place (er, except for the under-tent rot thing). It was a whole different sensory experience overall, and very sensous.
- An odd contrast between the idea of bellydancers at most parties as essentially more period strippers and the general age-shape-etc. positivity of the place. Or the contrast between generally egalitarian views and the chivalric posturing that some of the guys do. Also, boys night out. [Eh, you can't expect my political mind to shut entirely up for the week, can you?]
- How quickly the body adapts to different routines - mine really felt like it found yet another perfectly natural pattern with the walking and lounging (our camp = very big with the lounging). The whole place felt like a giant playground.
- The process of learning even a tiny bit of sign language & how it starts to impact the way you communicate with hearing folk - also, I keep coming in contact with Deaf culture this year in ways that should've pushed me to learn ASL by now, so hey! new project! But aside from that, I found myself thinking a lot about how daily physical experiences change our brains and stuff.
- The applicability of theatre training to life in the form of duct tape and abstract drafting.
- Boys, girls, flirting and *gasp* rejection (sorry, only squee-filter peeps get that particular story, for those who aren't already tired of it).
Next, I start moving!
- The amazing smell of the whole place (er, except for the under-tent rot thing). It was a whole different sensory experience overall, and very sensous.
- An odd contrast between the idea of bellydancers at most parties as essentially more period strippers and the general age-shape-etc. positivity of the place. Or the contrast between generally egalitarian views and the chivalric posturing that some of the guys do. Also, boys night out. [Eh, you can't expect my political mind to shut entirely up for the week, can you?]
- How quickly the body adapts to different routines - mine really felt like it found yet another perfectly natural pattern with the walking and lounging (our camp = very big with the lounging). The whole place felt like a giant playground.
- The process of learning even a tiny bit of sign language & how it starts to impact the way you communicate with hearing folk - also, I keep coming in contact with Deaf culture this year in ways that should've pushed me to learn ASL by now, so hey! new project! But aside from that, I found myself thinking a lot about how daily physical experiences change our brains and stuff.
- The applicability of theatre training to life in the form of duct tape and abstract drafting.
- Boys, girls, flirting and *gasp* rejection (sorry, only squee-filter peeps get that particular story, for those who aren't already tired of it).
Next, I start moving!
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Also, I sent you a present, but I just realized that apparently it's not in stock and they're not shipping it until sometime in mid-September. I can still change the address they ship it to, if you give me your new address here, or if you're having the post office forward your mail, it should arrive at your new address safely anyway.
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*grin*
Slowly learning to translate keryx into English.
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Also, cats? Don't do sign language.
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