evile: hey! You're here! How was your weekend?
skye_dsDS: awesome, how was yours?
evile: really good :)
evile: Was this the weekend that you went and saw the friesian up
close?
skye_dsDS: yes
evile: cool.
skye_dsDS: I spent five hours yesterday in the middle of an entire herd.
skye_dsDS: pictures of which will be up as soon as sonar0m gets them to
me
evile: cool :)
evile: wasn't very impressed with my faire photos, but went ahead and
put them up anyway.
skye_dsDS: everybody have a good time?
evile: I felt like I looked REALLY cute...and I totally did not.
*sigh*
skye_dsDS: seems like the faire is running later this year than in years
past? (I know Scarbie's started running later)
evile: Yup, everyone had a nice time.
skye_dsDS: whether or not you looked really cute is a matter of opinion
and largely in the eye of the beholder anyway
skye_dsDS: so if in your eye you looked really cute, then you did.
evile: I think it started a weekend earlier and runs a weekend later,
maybe? usually runs into mid-november.
evile: I just need to accept the fact that my charm is maybe 30%
physical and the rest personaliyt, so I'm NEVER going to look as good
in photos as I think I should.
skye_dsDS: I'm in some of the photos they took this weekend
skye_dsDS: you can't even tell I've lost 20+ pounds
skye_dsDS: I hate pictures.
evile: that's depressing.
evile: the only thing photos are good for is to look back and
go "gosh, I was younger and thinner, why the fuck was I bitching
about the way I looked back then?"
skye_dsDS: nodnodnods
evile: Oh well. We had a nice day at faire. I was un-stressy, on the
logic that I had a whole 'nother day at faire on Sunday so I didn't
need to march people around to see and do everything in 1 day. And
then Sunday didn't happen....but oh well. It was still a nice trip.
skye_dsDS: the parade had a better turnout this year than last year, my
lesson never showed up, but I rode around the park anyway
skye_dsDS: someone was riding Roman in the parade (standing up)
skye_dsDS: so then in the park, with three birthday parties full of
screaming children, rather than in the safety of my training area at
home
skye_dsDS: sonar0m hops up on Jesse's back
evile: wow.
skye_dsDS: the short racing rein we ride her with of course isn't long
enough for that so I pulled out twenty feet of silklike rope and he
used that
evile: jeez. glad he didnt' die.
skye_dsDS: he still doesn't manage forward movement very well but he can
jump down off her a nd land flat on his feet
skye_dsDS: then out comes the bow, and a live arrow
skye_dsDS: I'm like, why are we carrying live arrows (rather than
boffer) in the truck?
skye_dsDS: we ate lunch in Mt Vernon with Mom and Gramma who cut my hair
and gave me lots o stuff
skye_dsDS: and then spent the rest of the day with magical magnificent
critters
evile: *nod*
skye_dsDS: the black truck is threatening to explode on me on the way to
work, so I'm not driving it anywhere else until sineater comes down here
and looks at it
evile: sounds like a plan.
skye_dsDS: the Faire folk have been impressed with the mounted archery
(at a gallop) so far, I t hink they'll be even more impressed with
mounted archery Roman style
skye_dsDS: although why it's called Roman I have no idea.
evile: *shrug* no tellin'
evile: I actually managed to meet up with everyone at faire that was
going thsi weekend...except rengeek, and he works there so I don't
know if that counts or not.
evile: I didn't get as many photos as I wanted. I wanted one of just
Jaime, Sweetie, and Max in their kilts, and I wanted one of all the girls.
skye_dsDS: I love pictures, as long as I'm not in them.
evile: Met Max's latest FB, she's actually really nice, cute, and
sweet. She was wearing a purple sort of harem girl/bellydance outfit.
evile: I didn't get any of her, either. She's in the background of
the Michael & Harmoni 'gangsta' pose
evile: Cam, Stephanie and Scott took a bunch, I hope they email them
to me.
skye_dsDS: purple :)
evile: Yeah, she was cute. She reminded me of you.
skye_dsDS: last time I told the boys "I am not cute!" I got "adorable,"
so I decided to stop before I was further behind.
evile: Rio hates 'cute' too. Sorry, I was trying to say something
nice about you. I won't do it anymore.
skye_dsDS: lol I don't hate cute
skye_dsDS: I only protest it with them because they say it so often
skye_dsDS: and thank you
evile: Yeah, I'm sure it's tedious to have handsome men telling you
how much they like you all the damn time. You poor poor woman. Why do
you put up with it? :P
skye_dsDS: actually, generally speaking, it depends on what personal
connotations of "cute" are
skye_dsDS: and I don't mean to sound like "it depends on what the
meaning of the word "is" is"
skye_dsDS: sometimes "cute" completely deprives one of all adult/sexual
qualities...like little sister, puppy dog, baby duck = "cute"
skye_dsDS: although I know that's not what they mean.
skye_dsDS: or you either
skye_dsDS: particularly talking about other women (in purple harem
outfits :)
skye_dsDS: it's tradition. they tell me I've done something cute, or
that I"m cute after having done something cute, and I must respond
like Sam t he Eagle, "I am not cute!"
skye_dsDS: "Kermit, does this show have any culturally redeeming value?"
skye_dsDS: (I love Sam, he's so funny, sorry)
evile: *nod*
skye_dsDS: anyway, cute girl for Max, in purple harem garb = good
thing :D
evile: I think so.
evile: She and her cutie blonde friend camped with us. They were fun.
evile: I think we had a better drum circle at our camp than at the
main revel fire. (at least in terms of keeping a beat & how much fun
I, personally, had at each)
skye_dsDS: love drumming, more than dancing actually, I can't believe it
took me as long as it did to figure that out.
evile: heh. I just like to listen.
skye_dsDS: you might like all the Hossam Ramzy stuff I bought
evile: comes up on my launchcast from time to time, good stuff :)
skye_dsDS: I was listening to Orloci's fan station
skye_dsDS: only heard one Dead Can Dance, but liked it
evile: I danced to Tartanic out front after faire closed. That was a
blast. We started with 4 people and people kept joining the circle
until there were probably 10-12.
skye_dsDS: heard a lot of other groups I hadn't heard before
skye_dsDS: all goth or ambient
skye_dsDS: I knew I liked ambient generally but now I have specific names
skye_dsDS: dancing = good for you - you are more physically graceful
than me.
evile: I was glad I didn't fall down or drop anything.
evile: I'm tempted to try and make it out to the final weekend of
faire...but it's Fredericksburg Trade Days this weekend...
evile: Introducing my various friends to my various other friends
mostly worked. Michael & co were not feeling too well, but other than
that, it was all good.
evile: So what did you decide about the horse, BTW?
skye_dsDS: it is a go.
evile: neat.
skye_dsDS: sineater is ok, with reservations
skye_dsDS: but then, he always has reservations, and nothing wrong with
that
evile: *nod*
skye_dsDS: thanks to his english teacher this semester (long story)
skye_dsDS: sonar0m has decided to get out of this semester as best he can
and get something full time in his field next semester.
evile: at least if things really don't work out the people you got
him from arent that far away
skye_dsDS: initially I would have not reacted to that positively, but
thinking about it, sineater never finished college
evile: yup
skye_dsDS: Travis (already a programmer) is in favor of it
skye_dsDS: and Christopher Alex(a friend from college) never finished
school either (although he has every cert known to man including
Cisco)
skye_dsDS: and makes six digits
skye_dsDS: so I'm thinking a shopping trip with sineater and Travis along
for advice, to get a nice suit or two as a Christmas present
skye_dsDS: and Travis and sineater to help me write his resume
evile: *nod*
skye_dsDS: since their techie world is different than ours, in terms of
dress and paper etiquette, or so they tell me
skye_dsDS: and I continue to look for something that will pay me more
than here
evile: cool.
skye_dsDS: the County Judge in Milam County called for an interview but
wanted me to know (as I had been asking before I even applied and no
one could/would tell me)
skye_dsDS: that the wage would be 8.65 an hour
skye_dsDS: and I said, I just can't do that
skye_dsDS: no way, no where no how
evile: *nod*
skye_dsDS: of the $12/hr I make now, only $2 goes to gas
skye_dsDS: even with the gas prices the way they are
evile: *nod*
skye_dsDS: plus truthfully it doesn't really make sense that they would
expect someone with experience back to 1989 would be at a place in
life where she could accept 8.65
skye_dsDS: "but it has insurance and retirement"
skye_dsDS: I have insurance through Dell
skye_dsDS: and retirement does me no good with the bills that are due now
skye_dsDS: but, it is good that I am generating interest
evile: yup
skye_dsDS: I should check the Dell DB again and give sineater my resumes
(one admin, one paralegal) and see what comes of that
skye_dsDS: it would be ideal if all three of us were working at Dell
evile: yeah :)
skye_dsDS: what exactly is in a Scotch egg?
evile: I posted my recipe in my LJ
skye_dsDS: I haven't read LJ in about four days now and man have I got a
lot to catch up on
evile: *nod*
skye_dsDS: I am so glad you had a good weekend :) Lovely weather for it
too (the rain didn't break until we were on our way home, had to
drive 35 mph for hours)
evile: It sprinkled a tiny bit Saturday afternoon, but not too bad at
all.
skye_dsDS: little sprinkles can be quite pleasant
evile: we went into the beer tasting right after that, so we escaped
the post-rain humidity.
skye_dsDS: those sound nummy (no mayonnaise - I can't stand deviled eggs)
evile: they turned out well. Great breakfast for camping.
skye_dsDS: I bet! I remember CMA being cold at the oddest times of
year, and having hot tomato soup with basil, garlic and/or ginger in
combinations, with frenchbread toasted with cheese
skye_dsDS: good outside cold morning breakfast
evile: yup
evile: oopsie, I think I just upset a polyperson.
evile: *giggles*
skye_dsDS: ?
evile: big ol' post of laundry list requirements for the hot bi babe
to complete their family--"must live with us, must accept my spouse's
body as it is, must help us rais our children, must contribute to the
finances, must be wiling to move when we do" and I basically
said "so...what's in it for the theoretical HBB?"
skye_dsDS: where is this? ROFL
evile: I just don't know why anyone would think they were such a
great catch that someone would just sign htemselves for a life of
selfless servitude
evile: it's a frends locked post, I don't know if you can read it. It
was just...sad. Some people are just such takers, they don't even
realize they're painting an exceptionally miserable, bleak picture
for their potenttial new partner.
skye_dsDS: actually, sounds like what Chris and James Loy have said
before
skye_dsDS: but not just them of course, it's a pretty big pattern from
what I've heard
evile: yup. It's practically an epidemic. HBB hunters looking for
cunt-slaves to raise their kids and clean their house and basically
have NO needs or lives of their own.
evile: Good fuckin' luck with that, and don't be surprised if you
find someone like that and come home to find the kiddies cooking in
the crock pot.
skye_dsDS: if I were an HBB, I would be the one with the slaves, thank
you very much
evile: that's pretty much what I'm thinkin'
evile: I have admitted I don't get the 'submissive' mindset, but is
there really a person out there who would be perfectly content to be
used for sex, house-cleaning and babysitting and otherwise sit around
idle with no life or interests or thoughts of their own?
evile: and if there was such a person, would they be interesting
and/or pretty enough for you to want them in that capacity? Seems
like you could have one or the other but not both.
skye_dsDS: zactly
skye_dsDS: the answer to the first is yes, abundantly
skye_dsDS: how attractive they are? ummm, well
evile: <===hetero/mono barren hag, what the hell would I know about
poly HBBs. :P
skye_dsDS: you could easily be a poly HBB if Sweetie allowed
evile: heh. probably.
Anyhoo, It's time for me to blow this pop stand. Hasta :)
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