Birka Thoughts
Jan. 29th, 2006 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anastasiavFirst, and with apologies to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mylisant and kr4sh and staceyspins and many, many more of you out there in LJ land whom I got to see, my Birka Experience really, in the weight of it, was fairly sucky. I'm sorry. But its not your fault.
Second, a big apology toherooftheage for standing him up for our chivalric date on Friday night ... I had a good reason, as you'll see in a moment, and I did come upstairs rather much later in the evening than I had planned, but all was quiet and the room service menu was already hung on the door, so I did not knock for fear of waking you or your lady.
Things I enjoyed about Birka: Seeing Miles get his Pelican; Seeing Gareth be Knighted, Gareth's entire Knighting ceremony (in particular Sir Mo's awesome speech, hiding in my room and sleeping Saturday night; gifts fromstaceyspins and evilnicola, the Pit of Despair Power and Water meeting, seeing many people; the family procession in black and white.
Things I did not enjoy about Birka: The mouse that jumped out of the heater in our room and then consumed three hours of our Friday night (they did comp our room for the night, but we had to catch the mouse ourselves because the backup-assistant-night-manager they sent up was not equal to the task); any dealings I had with the hotel in general (although the staff was nice, polite, and well meaning I still got the runaround on many basic requests); all the work we had to do to rearange our room into a vigil site and then back again (I'm happy to do it, but it was hard not having a place to escape to; plus we had tried and tried to get a different/bigger/adjoining room for the vigil back in October but the hotel stymied us at every turn -- although rooms like we asked for clearly did exist, just on the 12th floor); all the angst surrounding Miles' returning his squire's belt, not getting to go shopping for more than 15 minutes; no game playing; being exhaused all the time; large portions of court; not getting to spend more than 10 minutes talking to anyone.
I so wanted to have a good time. And I did have good moments. But I spent the vast bulk of the weekend feeling as though I was doing things that I needed to do for other people, and not things that I wanted to do for myself and my own fun, and I hate hate hate that feeling.
mylisant and kr4sh and staceyspins and many, many more of you out there in LJ land whom I got to see, my Birka Experience really, in the weight of it, was fairly sucky. I'm sorry. But its not your fault.Second, a big apology to
herooftheage for standing him up for our chivalric date on Friday night ... I had a good reason, as you'll see in a moment, and I did come upstairs rather much later in the evening than I had planned, but all was quiet and the room service menu was already hung on the door, so I did not knock for fear of waking you or your lady. Things I enjoyed about Birka: Seeing Miles get his Pelican; Seeing Gareth be Knighted, Gareth's entire Knighting ceremony (in particular Sir Mo's awesome speech, hiding in my room and sleeping Saturday night; gifts from
staceyspins and evilnicola, the Pit of Despair Power and Water meeting, seeing many people; the family procession in black and white.Things I did not enjoy about Birka: The mouse that jumped out of the heater in our room and then consumed three hours of our Friday night (they did comp our room for the night, but we had to catch the mouse ourselves because the backup-assistant-night-manager they sent up was not equal to the task); any dealings I had with the hotel in general (although the staff was nice, polite, and well meaning I still got the runaround on many basic requests); all the work we had to do to rearange our room into a vigil site and then back again (I'm happy to do it, but it was hard not having a place to escape to; plus we had tried and tried to get a different/bigger/adjoining room for the vigil back in October but the hotel stymied us at every turn -- although rooms like we asked for clearly did exist, just on the 12th floor); all the angst surrounding Miles' returning his squire's belt, not getting to go shopping for more than 15 minutes; no game playing; being exhaused all the time; large portions of court; not getting to spend more than 10 minutes talking to anyone.
I so wanted to have a good time. And I did have good moments. But I spent the vast bulk of the weekend feeling as though I was doing things that I needed to do for other people, and not things that I wanted to do for myself and my own fun, and I hate hate hate that feeling.
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Date: 2006-01-30 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-30 02:07 pm (UTC)I was so mopey about not getting to play that when we got home on Sunday we had some friends over and played the game (no traitor). Wow. The game kicked our butts. Its going to require several more sessions before we get the strategy sorted out. Which is a good thing.
I am sorry I (we) did not get to see you for more than a few minutes, however.