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The things I went to 12th Night for were properly enjoyable. The Golden Stag play totally rocked the house, as usual. (It was fun to see the youngest brother playing the part of "the footnotes". It was even more fun to hear later that it had been suggested that he "channel" me for the part.) I played harp in the band for the Duchesses' Ball. Put in my shift on their highnesses of the Mists court during coronation (although it being coronation there wasn't really any active attending to do). Helped judge stella_nordica's "costume ensemble" competition. There was one excellent entry ... unfortunately there was only one entry, despite other expressions of interest before the event. Well, there are a lot of things worth casting out into the wind to see if they take sail. Not all of them will catch.

I took 200 mini-flyers for the picnic_project and handed out all but a dozen of them. So the Project is officially launched now. The next step is following up the flyers with strategic pimp-postings in various mailing lists, communities, etc. in the next few days. Then we'll see how it develops. (See above comment about casting things out into the wind.)

Got home and took down the holiday tree. Then, since I was working on general notions of organization and putting things away in the living room, I continued on to "filing" the recent fabric acquisitions and calculating how many more fabric storage boxes I need at the moment. That led to pulling out the contents of the "not yet organized textile crafts drawers" and sorting them out into appropriate storage boxes. (Found my favorite drop spindle -- in a drawer I'd looked in several times when last looking for it.) Since the sewing/fabric stuff is part of what I need to move into storage to stage the house, I should probably just leave the boxes all pulled out and ready to go. However I need to do some serious analysis about what (if anything) I'm going to want to hold out to work on during the whole Housing Process thing.

Attended the most wonderful arts campout weekend at Erinwood this weekend -- I'm so glad they conceived of the idea and invited me. If we could only have fixed that pesky excess sunshine ... but it's the Central Valley in summer, so what can you do? I decided to reduce my exertion-overhead by camping out of the car rather than putting up pavilions and whatnot (although I then felt guilty and pitched in helping other folks tear down and pack up, since I didn't have to do my own).

For my own class, I did the first public pitch of the "Period Picnic Project" -- on which more later. (Now that the idea has been debuted, I'm ready to begin introducing the idea more generally.) Memo to self: when doing a computer slide show outdoors in daylight, stick to B&W images. The colors were completely washed out, but the woodcuts came through ok. In retrospect, I should have done handouts rather than the slide show but I think it hadn't penetrated into my brain that when they said my class would be held in "the hall" this was referring to a large open-air sunshade, not an actual building.