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[taimatsu]

I have just got back from chilly Derbyshire after spending the weekend reading eight Shakespeare plays with twenty fabulous friends. Probably my personal acting highlight was doing the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet - apart from my unintentional wandering accent, I think I did well and I definitely enjoyed myself, especially with the first long speech. Other than that, I think most of it was great in different ways. There were several plays I really didn't know, like the Merchant of Venice abd Hamlet, both of which had utterly excellent leads, so I generally had enormous fun. I got to meet medieval_bunny and see verlaine without his gold paint! I had a lovely sauna! I got to be Margaret in Much Ado and the Princess in Love's Labour's Lost! I dressed up for the first party and wore my shiny skirt for the second time! There was tasty food and alcohol!

I didn't quite manage to talk properly with all the people I wanted, as I (like numerous others, I think) ended up with a case of social anxiety for the latter part of the weekend. It's odd, I don't often get like that - I'm quite often someone who sits in a corner but it's usually because I want to rather than that I believe I can't be anything other than an unwelcome interruption! Anyway, it was relatively mild, and staying up latelatelate with a smaller group of people alleviated it quite a bit. I want to have a party of my own now. I'll wait to see what happens with work possibilities and if I end up with some time off I will use it to do the house.

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I have a question for you all. At the moment I have a number of very beautiful blank books; I have some gorgeous small fabric-covered ones of different kinds, and a big thick marbled-edges hardback one my dad brought from Florence for Christmas, and three little Moleskine cardboard cahiers (lined paper) from my brother Giles. I want to use these glorious books, but I'm not sure what to write in them! I have a diary (in a ringbound sketchbook which mirabehn has just returned after caring for it devotedly for some months - thank you!) and a commonplace book already. I think I will use one of the cahiers for a books-I-have-read notebook. Any ideas for the others? What things do you or would you write in blank books?

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[fluffymark]

*squeeeeeeee* you are wonderful, Lucy *huuuuuuuuugs*

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

I have a book for all of my crafty things - ideas, then notes on how something actually came to fruition - it's quite scrappy as I tend to 'scribble' in it as something is made, but it's very very handy when I want to remake something later.

Also, where in Derbyshire were you? I was in Ambergate, near Matlock, crewing for Shards.

[taimatsu]

Milford, in the Ebenezer Chapel. Didn't leave the house all weekend though, too busy with the Bard. :)

[ifimust.livejournal.com]

I waved at you at some point on Friday night... :)

As for the books... stories? Poems? Random thoughts? Books I want to read? (Though I'd be tempted to keep that in the Books I have read one - upside down and backwards). :}

[taimatsu]

Yes! It was good to see you again, even if we didn't actually converse. The group singing was good too :)

Stories - possibly, although I tend to believe I can't write and the diary is my way of counteracting that. Poems - I write occasional sonnets in times of deep emotional turmoil, but haven't written much else.

[ifimust.livejournal.com]

Group singing - VERY good. It's one of the things I miss most :}

Write essays, if you prefer. It's not a bad idea ...

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

What things do you or would you write in blank books?

Blank verse!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I'd draw in them, not write.

Even if you're not much for art yourself you should set a small one aside to draw doodles or small cartoons in.

[taimatsu]

Good thought! Most of them are quite small though (the biggest is A4) and I have sketchbooks for the art. I was actually given a sketchbook that I haven't included on the list because I categorise those differently in my head! But I could do some sort of slightly pretentious art journal, or fancy Art Concept sketchbook.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Totally with you on the Sunday night. It's not *quite* cast-party like, is it? The adrenaline comedown happens too fast, and then having drunk through the crash everyone ends up in a very odd mood. It was lovely to listen to your playing, though :) And both the Nurse and Margaret were fantastic!

[taimatsu]

I do find I need to end the weekend in smaller groups of people. I can't hear properly in big groups and I do get to the point where I think I'm very boring. So yes, it is odd, and I'm very glad we had the Masquerade party early on. Being able to lie around in slobby clothes was just what I needed. But equally, it was also the right decision to make that evening play-people only, because of that mood thing. Aren't people weird? :)

I hope we do manage to do some music together sometime soon. I'm sorry I got a bit scratchy and helped to screw up the plan. I think I need to twiddle by myself for a while before I believe I really can play well enough for anyone to want to listen to me, and so I got all insecure. But there will be other opportunities!

[taimatsu]

Oh, and your Katherina was one of the highlights for me :)

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

I think you should make one a sort of a Visitors Memories Book, where every single person who comes into your house has to draw a small self portrait/write something/draw something and sign it. I used to have one a huge painting on my bedroom wall at parents' that everybody wrote over, but a book can be transferable between accomodation. Good for social feelgood factor too - you wont believe how many people *have* visited you over several years!

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for Lucy and her Nurse and her guitar!

It was wonderful to see you again :)

[mostlyacat.livejournal.com]

Yay, lovely Lucy.
Ah I am so sleepy now! Masquerade was very fun.

Hugs

[mono-bertie.livejournal.com]

take it to parties/gatherings and (hopefully its not soo good someone will nick it) circulate it among people to write something meaningful in it. one day you might say 'to you who encounter this book, write the meaning of your life in it'. another day, another gathering ask them to write the their worst enemy, or most wonderful memory of their life.

[taimatsu]

That's rather a good plan. I think I have just the book :)

[mono-bertie.livejournal.com]

glad to be of service. maybe one of these day i may meet the book.
wonder what its name will be? anmar?