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I've never been to the Renaissance Faire before today, and boy was it fun as heck. We got Jester Fries and Apple Fritters and Dolmas and we watched Jousting and Glass Blowing and Pottery and Acrobatics and Fire stuff. I had so much fun and I want to buy Medieval clothes and wear them around all over now. Of course, it wasn't as great as it usually is (I'm guessing) because a ton of stuff was closed due to Covid, and we had to keep our masks on and honestly it was pretty humid today so it was kind of tough, and besides I was nervous since there tended to be presses of people, what with the way shows work in the woods and stuff. But it was way cooler than I even thought it could be -- the buildings were all like, permanent structures, which I did not think they'd be, I thought it'd be all tents and stuff. But it was so great. Of course, I didn't get a turkey leg because I'm vegetarian but I did try to get others we were with to get one, though they didn't. OH and also we shot arrows at targets and also hatchets at wood and I did pretty good with the arrows but I did NOT with the hatchets. There was also a hammered dulcimer player and we watched a glassblower who I'd happened to see years ago at Bonnaroo do a show. He broke the mug he was making but it was still pretty cool. We decided he could be a cult leader because he's got that vibe. I bet he's pretty hard to love.

When we got home we meal prepped and I made a really good looking salad thing with pasta ... I call it a pasta salad. I also hung out on IRC as per ushe (uze? use? us? hmmmmmm......) and ran into another person from Tennessee who, who knows, might have a dad who knows my dad. Small world, as they say.

Now R is sleeping on the couch and Sinisterhood, a podcast about true crime and creepy stuff. She's been catching up to the present, and right now they're talking about the lockdown when that happened. The one has too many boxes of pasta and they're bartering and stuff, which I remember well. That was when I organized my breadbuy with some local people from a mill down in New Orleans. I still have about 40 pounds of white flour, which is funny (not haha really) because R is not eating gluten for the time being because of some health stuff. So that flour has been sitting there for a few months. I'll be honest, I'm worried I'll open it to a writhing nightmarish mass of roaches or something. I think of that scene in /Dirk Gently/ where he and his cleaning lady have a standoff over cleaning out the fridge, and it gets so bad that it falls into the god-world (read the book if you want to understand completely, it makes sense in that context) and a minor god comes out, because the worlds are connected.

While I'm listening to this podcast out of one ear, on IRC we're talking about the time dilation of the pandemic, which has been a Thing. And now I'm thinking of that in context with the weird way the Ren Faire felt, where there wasn't any music piped anywhere and all the sounds were just the natural sounds, and it was really nice because it made me feel as though we were really /in/ the renaissance times, which .. I mean is the point? So those worlds are connected too. And the IRC and my life worlds.

And all worlds, right? Another episode of the podcast, earlier, was about the Montauk Project, where they tried to get kids to connect to other worlds through a psychic link -- basically think /Stranger Things/, because the story was the inspiration for the show (and more connections, the /current/ episode has /Tiger King/ discussion, because of course it was that stage of the pandemic). And it made me think about multiverse theory, and how some people maybe think that we're able to change the universe around us because of the way our brains work or something. And I don't believe in that at all, because I disagree with the notion that humans are in any way the center of anything. Everything I've observed has disavowed me of any of those type of ideas.

So I think that the universe is basically all this stuff, right, and you can look at the stuff in a number of different ways. There's too much stuff to be able to see it all at once, so you just look at whatever part makes sense and that's you. And sure, sometimes somebody else might walk onto your turf and something weird will happen, but it's weird for them too, right? So. Basically, I'm thinking of this one scene written by (who else but) Douglas Adams where he mentions the same thing, and there's the line "you slice it up however you want and there's something somebody can call home." Or something to that effect. Adams had a large influence on me as a youngster. His were the only books I read many more times than once. I still need to get into reading books more than once, to really get them. But I haven't yet.

Things I've learned this weekend: writing a thousand words works better at work when I have time to really think things out. Trying to push them all out within the space of the last hour of the day is not the best idea. Possibly having the word count in the status bar is also not the best idea. There /is/ a feature of this wc-mode that lets me set a goal. I need to try that tomorrow. I need to do a lot of things. I'll get around to it sometime.