About to begin Week 2!

Dear Riki, thank you for forcing me to leave my house. I do need people to call me on my bullshit, and I'm am incredibly lucky to have you as a friend.

So...... here I am, sitting in a Barnes and Noble out in Mesa. I have smoothie in one hand and I'm rocking out to some Glee, which is making everyone else in the Coffee Shop portion give me wierd looks.

Anyways back to the Renaissance Festival :-) My faire name is Lucetta Harbottle or Lucy and I was the first bearer of the Cone of Shame. I know that I didn't write thru rehersals... The truth is that I completely forgot about it. So anyways opening weekend was last weekend and we begin the our three day weekend tomorrow. Even with a few rough patches in the first weekend, I had a blast! I know that we are supposed to be transported back to the Elizabeathan Era, but it feels more like a boarding high school. You have your druggies and tweakers from both the local and traveling cast, your invisible and confused freshman which are the newbies (which is where I am at), Student Government from the people who have been here for 5+ years, and finally the popular kids who are the acts and some of the lane performers. The most amazing thing is that no matter who you are or what you are doing at the festival, as soon as those gates open and we become our characters, it doesn't matter. We are all making the world real and in little bits, we all make it happen every day.

The only problem that I am running into is the fact that I moved an hour away from all of my friends back in Phoenix, Glendale and Scottsdale. I feel very out of the loop with them and I haven't really made any "hang out" friends out here yet. So I'm constantly alone in my house which is driving me mad. The local cast, which I know, are mostly back in Phoenix or farther and only come in on the weekends. While the traveling cast, which I don't know, is a very close knit group that just makes me nervous to be around. I become incredibly awkward and make comments to a completely silent response or better yet I try to act cool and fail miserably. I just need to relax and be myself, because I am actually a super cool awesome girl with hilarious jokes. (Shut up Riki) So hopefully soon I will find some peeps to hang with.

And finally I just would like to share that I am indeed working on my juggling, belly dancing, and acrobat/contortion skills. I actually spent both then end of faires watching the people juggling near the gates. Somehow I've gotten it into my head that watching them will make it easier for me to learn. I will keep going and practicing with my little balls until I get them down, then I will move onto clubs, then I will stand on someones shoulders while juggling.

I WILL GET THAT DONE BEFORE THE ARIZONA RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL ENDS IF IT KILLS ME!

So I know that I have hit my 100 word assignment and I hope that it was intersting, I'm been distracted by the girl next to me doing a powerpoint about the "Black Lung Disease". Is that a tickle in the back of my throat??? DAMNIT!