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I'm back from DE, by the way. I got back Monday afternoon of course.

Chewed alive by deer flies and gnats. Quite unpleasant.

This burn I spent a lot of my time in a few specific places- generally involving shade. Like the pavilion, and Jen, Shawn, Peter, Monk-E et al's camp where they had a lovely shade structure, a parrot, some non-chemical bug repellant that worked like magic, and sushi.

Sushi. Peter made what he called the "sushi version of a jalapeno popper"- tuna, cream cheese, jamaica peppers and scallions. Pretty mch hit the upper level of what I consider to be enjoyably hot (I can tolerate hotter, but I don't generally like it because it tends to drown out all other flavor and taste very grey.)

I slept a LOT more than I wanted to this weekend, especially Saturday night. I went to sleep at like, 9. Damn me.

Much spinning (unlit) Accidentally came up with a new staff move. Which I have since taught to several people. And am working on successfully combining with another move. It's really an excellent combination.

There seems to be so much less spinning/dancing/hanging out done around the fire anymore. Once the stack is lit, after a short time everyone goes away. I had done so much spinning and attempting cntact stuff over the weekend that by Sunday night burn time, my arms were tied and sore and I kept dropping the staff. After everyone left the burn stack, a spin jam picked up by the PlunderDome, and all the safetys went over there. I wanted to spin around the fire, but no one was there and I had to go where there were safetys. I spun once, realized that my arms were just too tired and gave up, went and laid down by the fire for a few hours.

I did find a new fire toy. The fire dart, which I'm told is based on a weapon from chinese martia arts called a rope dart. A wick is attached to one end of a long rope or chain (by ong, I mean 8 feet or more) And one hand holds the end of the rope, the other controls the movement of the dart, it can be spun and swung around in all diffrent ways, and the rope can be pulled in flor closer work or let out for long, sweeping moves. As I understand it's a pretty new thing in the fire performance world. when I have some extra money I want to grab some wick. I think for this purpose, a premade monkey fist wick will do it. Some rope, some hardware, et voila! Wow, is it reasonable to pay $50-$60 per pair for premade wicks on Home Of Poi or Flamma Aeterna?

Bugs were awful, I got completely chewed up. Tea tree oil castile soap is a WONDERFUL thing. Monday afternoon, I took a bath in lukewarm water with that soap and the itching went away. When it finally came back, it was greatly reduced.

Sunday morning, around 5am a bottle rocket exploded outside my tent- literlally right against it. I'm glad I was awake- I was actually about to go and tell this guy to shut up- he was sitting right next to my tent and apparently yelling at someone inside. Woke me up. I was in the process of putting a shirt on when I hear something land...and see flames through the tent side. Screamed. Loud. Then it exploded. No damage to the tent, no debris. The rocket was found some distance away later in the afternoon. But I was kinda spooked. Rangers were nearby and checked things out but no idea who did it.

The other probematic thing this weekend was a drugs/alcohol issue...if you're on baltwash and/or the LJ burning man community, you've probably already seen my post about that. I might post it here later. For now, it's visible at burning_man

Basically what it comes down to is that for the first time ever, people tried to pressure me into drinking, which I find extremely problematic.

Overall it was a realy great, very chilled-out weekend.

Oh...and Monk-E gave me the original cd of the music played during the burning of the Pyramid. I'm listening to it right now. Awesome stuff.

Comments

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Actually, Peter came up with the idea, but the stuff you ate, I made. :)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

actually, he made it first, I had consumed several pieces before you came along. but yours was just as good

[robinhoodvandal.livejournal.com]

I was in the same boat by sunday; I had spun so much that i just couldn"t do it anymore. I did a bit and had to have someone put me out cause I couldn't go long enough to even get to the point where I could blow my wicks out. I also managed to get extremely sick. I hardly got to see you though which was sad. I looked for you saturday night, but with no luck.
Pressuring people to take part in things they do not want to do is lame at best. I have never understood it. I'm sorry you had to dealwith that. boo hiss on them.

[ranger-hotsauce.livejournal.com]

"The fire dart, which I'm told is based on a weapon from chinese martia arts called a rope dart"

You can see rope dart moves in Romeo Must Die and Shanghai Noon if you're so inclined.