A Wicked Good Weekend
May. 25th, 2009 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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duchessletitia, scotica, and klwilliams for dinner and Wicked in San Francisco. Loved Wicked, but to tell the many ways in which I loved it would be to give spoilers for some details that were most enjoyable for having been surprises. After that I crashed at duchessletitia's place so we could get on the road early to drive up to Quincy for part of Cynagua Coronet. It was very laid back on my end: since I was doing my lady-in-waiting thing, I didn't plan on any other activities or distractions. And since we were being fed and hosted, I decided to bring the sleeping platform for the Element and not bother with tentage or anything. So, all in all, a very low maintenance event and a lovely drive up Hwy 70 and back. I had a bit of fun participating in a low-key bardic Sunday evening ... although I failed to remember all the words to any of the songs I tried to sing. Did some experimentation and did a slight elaboration on a story from Giraldus Cambrensis and, after reciting the first few lines of Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed as a party trick (that is, the party trick is reciting them in the original medieval Welsh), I was encouraged into a highly interpretive retelling of the entire first episode of the story which I think managed to avoid the usual deathly flaws of impromptu storytelling. I really should work on memorizing more of the opening, though.
duchessletitia, scotica, and klwilliams for dinner and Wicked in San Francisco. Loved Wicked, but to tell the many ways in which I loved it would be to give spoilers for some details that were most enjoyable for having been surprises. After that I crashed at duchessletitia's place so we could get on the road early to drive up to Quincy for part of Cynagua Coronet. It was very laid back on my end: since I was doing my lady-in-waiting thing, I didn't plan on any other activities or distractions. And since we were being fed and hosted, I decided to bring the sleeping platform for the Element and not bother with tentage or anything. So, all in all, a very low maintenance event and a lovely drive up Hwy 70 and back. I had a bit of fun participating in a low-key bardic Sunday evening ... although I failed to remember all the words to any of the songs I tried to sing. Did some experimentation and did a slight elaboration on a story from Giraldus Cambrensis and, after reciting the first few lines of Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed as a party trick (that is, the party trick is reciting them in the original medieval Welsh), I was encouraged into a highly interpretive retelling of the entire first episode of the story which I think managed to avoid the usual deathly flaws of impromptu storytelling. I really should work on memorizing more of the opening, though.
