still gathering my thoughts...

Though many are floating on this first weekend (faireraven certainly is, and not least because We're Famous!), I had a rather oddly grounded first run, partially for reasons others have posted, partially just mental exhaustion.  I'll do a bullet list later but at work, I'm the current "bottleneck" and need to get stuff done so others can move forward.

Celtic Music in Chantilly on Wednesday - come see Keltish!

Keltish, the celtic group featuring Chelle from the Pyrates Royale and Lynn Cunningham, a former faire performer (and ex-Pyrate), will be performing in Centreville, VA on Wednesday evening.  faireraven and I are going.

It'll be at the Red Rocks Cafe (and Tequilla Bar - yeah, sounds great for Celtic, right? :) ), 13850 Braddock Road, Centreville, VA.  (This is the "old" Braddock Road that goes between Union Mill and Old Centreville, the shopping centers built up around the remnants of the "New Braddock Road" and Centreville Road's expansions.  Its close to where the old Oak Poast Furnature used to be at 28 and 29.  Show starts at 7:30.

the soundtrack for this weekend consisted of...

...pretty much the score for every Mahler symphony ever written.

It was that damn intense.

Things outside the faire had as much to do with things as within.  My mom was dealing with stress over my brother's growing depression whilst riding/driving down to Jax for my uncle's birthday, then gets a call that another uncle had a heart attack, yada yada.  Then there's work, where I find that my workload keeps increasing on a particular project as it reaches its end rather than winding down the way most of these projects do, leading to more pressure (and more excuses for the other work commitments I keep having to postpone, things I wanted done a month ago...).  Add to all that the lack of sleep and excessive driving during hell week, and thus my post about a lack of sanity last week.

So the festival started.

Nothing in particular went dramatically wrong, but there were lots of little corrective actions needed that kept me on my toes, trying to find my new rhythm in things.  Saturday was entirely a matter of logistics.( saturday's bullets... )

Interesting changes

• Patrick Orwell's flutes are gone.
• this unused space under the Bee Folk is now the "Bee Hind" selling more of the wax candles and honey candy and sticks to those passing by the globe.

Sunday.  Knowing the intensity will continue, I take everything slower than usual.  However, saturday's logistical study paid off and I had few incidents of needing to double-back on things.( sunday's shorter bullets )

next week, 2:30 by the info booth, 4:30 boardwalk (dragon if it rains).

later this week, i'll post my full thoughts on "the news" and what it really means even as it wasn't really true.