in which i have probably had one too many cookies

[ontology]

Aaaack, it's my least favourite part of any trip: the last few hours before we leave. (I say 'last few hours' because, um, it's nine thirty now, and Dad and I are getting up at five.) All the scrambling and madness and me being sure I'm forgetting something important and, as usual, only beginning to pack at the last minute (though that's usually not difficult, really: decide which summer dresses are current favourite, find a sweater or two for the nights, and somehow locate socks and underwear, bonus points if socks match). Also I baked cookies for the trip on Dad's orders -- chocolate crinkles -- and cannot stop eating them, oh no!

Imagine, this time tomorrow I'll be lying in the grass listening to... let me check the schedule... Travis Tritt and Jerry Douglas? Meh. Will probably skip out on that for the Opening NIght Dance with, hey, Scythian! (Hee, local friends, remember when you went to see them and were all telling me I had to see them too? YAY. I'll pretend you're there; it'll be awesome.) Jerry Douglas is good, but I've seen him twice before and he's never particularly wowed me stylistically -- of course he's brilliant and all, it's just not something I get excited about. And Travis Tritt... um, not my cup of absinthe, thanks. Anyway DANCE. With SCYTHIAN.

Thus far this is the first time I've attended a folk music festival without my iPod breaking a day or two beforehand. I don't even know, you guys.

Also it occurs to me that last year I wore my Vienna Teng t-shirt on the way up, too.

One more thing. No, two more things. One: Martha Tilston is bloody amazing. I mean, if Steve Tilston, performer of one of the top five best shows I have ever seen in my life, and definitely the best one-man-and-one-guitar-and-a-harmonica show I've ever witnessed, was going to have a daughter, it stands to reason that she would inherit a modicum of awesome. I just wasn't prepared for how much her album was not only fantastic but so exactly in line with my tastes. And this was an album she recorded partially out of doors and gave away for free on her website! Two; for a taste, Miss Tilston features on the mix I just posted on balladrie. Oddly, the last mix I posted was also finalised the evening before I left for a trip, in that case, Christmas holidays with relatives. Huh.

Also, grr. Going to miss Dollhouse on Friday. Couldn't the break week be this week instead of last? And I'll miss next week's, too, on account of how I will be flying to see lady_moriel at the time. (But then we can watch the episode together! And flail like the nerdy fangirls we are!)

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[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I wish you could have come! You would have loved Scythian.

Heh, I'm even worse, re. downloads, because I just have massive amounts of them saved to my LJ memories or in my favourites, waiting for me to get around to them, poor things. (Also I made the mix in like three days. By accident. Why this will not happen with, say, the Remus-centric counterpart to in the winter of my discontent, or the After the Bombs mix, or the Drusilla mix, or the Firefly one, or the River one, or the Buffy/Angel one that keeps morphing into different things, or the Buffy/Spike one that can't seem to start, or... Well, now I've just effectively killed them all by mentioning them, so there's that.)

I AM BACK NOW SO FLAILING CAN COMMENCE. I still don't really believe that I am actually getting onto a plane and that eventually I will end up in Alaska and be picked up by you. It seems very unlikely, like a thing that happens in a book. Especially the bit where I fly all on my lonesome and don't die or end up trapped in Michigan which isn't much better.

WAIT WAIT AMPERSAND NECKLACE?? I will totally pay you back! If it is still there. I has a nerdy. ^-^ (Also, silly Kyra, gold goes with everything! Although I prefer silver in general. But still OMG I JUST REALISED WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS: SEMI-COLON EARRINGS.)