I hung the giant lanterny pumpkin that Cath sent me from our balcony railing.... the thing is huge and this was the only place I could actually hang it and BOY does it look cool!!! I decorated the front door and am looking forward to a nice evening. We don't get kiddies at the door but the neighbours all decorate their doorsteps with little pumpkins. It smells like autumn and the days are hazy and fairly warm... that is until the weekend comes when the huge cold front sweeping down from Scandinavia to wash us all in winter's touch.

On the anal gardener's note: Marcus wrote a fairly nasty rebuttle letter and mailed that off yesterday evening. He plans to go and check the mail boxes ( since we have these people's last name) and confront them. To ask why the did that cowardly thing of going behind our backs instead of just coming to talk to us. He's brave that way. I can't deal with confrontation like that.

Yesterday I got all my signet work sorted out. I basically spent all day going through the court reports, the DTZs and my own emails to get all the information right. Made a list of all awards I have records for not only for me but also for the Post horn. We need to standardize the system in a big bad way. There are far too many gaps and too many different ways of making court reports, too many different routes and too many ways the information gets lost. It was annoyingly time consuming to wade through all the blah blah to  the point.All my excel sheets up to date and the last thing to do is to update my scribe listing. We started the update on the signet pages, which is cool and my next big job is an over haul and update the scroll texts. The english texts need some work and I have a lot of different language texts that need to be shared as well. We will have scroll texts from at least three or four different languages and that's kind of exciting!

apart from that I appear to be starting what sounds and feels like a cold ...yep...that time of year...

until then be excellent to each other and Happy Hallowe'en

So we got a letter in the mail today from the rental agency that someone, one of our neighbours bitched about our garden. So let me make this perfectly clear we are NOT über gardners. Our grass does not look like it was perfectly painted. We do not colour co ordinate our flowers. And.... some of the weeds that grow on the stupid wall bricks are welcomed as really pretty flowers.

We do mow our lawn when it needs it, we prune the trees, and the roses and occasionally I will weed through the flower beds to sort out the tangles. I planted wild flowers seeds so that we get a blaze of colour pretty much almost all year round and I LIKE the wild look of the poppies and the pansies that grow where ever. The Königskertzen in the side of the garden are glorious and the grape plants are full of grapes. Our garden looks like a colourful living breathing thing not like a carefull freak controlled home and gardens garden. The weeds, by the way come down from the fields above us....so maybe you should try bitching to the farmers who own them. I coudl understand the complaints is the garden was left to run absolutely wild but that is not the case. We are just not ANAL about the garden.

So who ever it was that bitched about our garden, next time you have an issue you should come and talk to us directly, instead of writing snippy, stupid letters behind our backs about something that isn't even any of your fucking business anyway. If you are that bored with your tiny little meaningless lives I suggest you take up a new hobby because as of right now you have not made any friends here.

so PFO.

grrr.

okay so I spent my entire day doing that gold leaf thing... bathed in the warmth of the sun that filtered through my studio window...I scraped the mold off the top of my gesso, mixed it up carefully so as to avoid those pesky bubbles, laid it down with extreme care, needle coated in ear wax to pokethe escaped bubbles away... let it dry while I stetched my crooked back and made a cup of tea. then the gold laying process began... and for about 5 hours i say and laid gold ( bathroom and tea breaks included) This session worked so well that I managed a MIRROR shine on the gold especially the capital letter.. and oh my god it shines.

bling-bling has taken on new meaning which is cool because the scroll is very small...and to top it all off I even tooled the damned capital letter... so how's that for ambitious. It's very pretty, I've never done that before...dental tools do come in handy for the oddest of things...

show and tell after the 13th when I get home from Uni. I'm excited this is a cool scroll.I even teenyweeni-ized my calligraphy... secretary hand in small... maybe I need to bring a magnifying glass along with me for the heralds.. LOL I am evil.

now back to your regularly scheuled programming...

until then be sppooooooooooky.... 

I had to ask Marcus twice this morning what day it was.

Well, it is a gorgeous morning, the sun made its way slowly over the hill across from the house and lit up the hills behind the hosue and then the valley. Autumn has come down the hills, the trees are all turning soft golden yellows and browns, not like the firey reds and brilliant colours of Canadian autumn. Still it is glorious.

It smells like autumn, like October, like halloween which is on Tuesday. Cool thing here is that Wednesday, all saints day is a holiday here. woot! We were going to have a halloween party but not enough people could come so we called it off.

I am almost done with my scroll work, just have to gild and paint the last one. While will be tiny but very pretty...I hope. I tried out one of my new nibs and found I could do secretary hand in miniature... it's teeny weeny...yay nibs!!!

This weekend will be quiet at home hangout weekend, get some shopping done and som relaxing done... next weekend we drive down to Vicenza and then the weekend after that we fly up to Germany for University... after that there is a possible trip to Nürnberg and then it's christmas... holy time flying bat man where does it all go???

 okay well that's Friday, warm sunny autumny...beautiful. so I am going to enjoy it, workingin my bright studio with the door / window that I look out on to when I work, I see the whole valley from it and it's very inspiring.

on that note...

Be excellent to each other...

seems to me that when it rains it pours. in the last 6 days give or take I have done three big scrolls. Woof....will post pictures after university. One worked out way etter than I coudl have even hoped. I am so happy and so relieved since it was the one that fought me all the way to the scalpel blade I had to take to it to fix my damned mistakes.... grrrrr

there would have been a 4th but thankfully another scribe stepped in to help out. I am so grateful it's scary. I will start on the next scroll thing I had planned anyway because it is a project on my mind...one of those let's see if I really can do it...it involves a lot and I do mean a lot of filigree work. yowsa! Mostly my back is stiff from the constant work, some days it was 10 hours or so with breaks inbetween. Still the end result is I get better at this scribe stuff so a little pain is good. We suffer for our art.

Been answering a ton of new scribe questions which is fun, and playing with my new nibs.Trying out some new styles ( well newer to me) and discovering that this redwork filigree stuff is easy! ( for me it is actually easy.) It is also a lot of fun in that mad doodle sort of way....I may try teaching a class on that style at some point... seems alot of people are interested in learning about it but not that many people do it for real. Maybe it is not considered bling bling enough who knows I think it's fabulous though, all those cool squiggley lines... almost as much fun as drollery and grotesques...

Three new scribes on my little list of people to convert... oops I mean assimulate... oops I mean teach and guide.... and one of them is a knight...okay so he was coerced but still I cannot wait to hear his name called out in court as an illuminator...tee hee hee and another is a squire  who is into star wars and but questions my use of the word Padewan seeing as how I am all dark-side twisty.... yeah... the emails are fun! the third asks a lot of questions which has been a very good thing for me, 1st I begin to see just how much I have learned and 2:I see how much I still need o find out. Marcus always says if you want to become better on a subject teach it.... hmmmmm

The down side is my writing... it suffers when I am scribing full time. I cannot do both atthe same time... it just doesn't work, but now that my assigned work is almost done... I can get back to the mayhem on board the Executor.... hoth is about to happen wheeee ... then more bad stuff...as the Empire slowly slides into decline...

It's a good job I am a chapter ahead of my upload posts...eep or else I'd be panicking about getting everything done....

in the meantime I am pooped... as a distraction we have been watching Farscape and so far the jury is kinda out. It's very cheesy sort of that Saturday afternoon there is nothing else to watch sort of show...ugh...but Claudia Black is cool.

so I am now off to bed...

until then, be excellent to each other... 

I'm tired. Not sleepy tired but drop dead bone weary and I don't know why. I do know my back is all twisted up. Yes... that 12C monk was right... 'writing is excessive drudgery it crooks the back and gnarles the fingers...' or something to that effect...

The list of work on my to-do list for the up and coming event is pretty chunky espcially if I no one volunteers for one piece in particular. I feel the weight of this event in particular but I don't know why. maybe because we are flying up and I worry about stuff getting lost in transition. I worry about stuff not getting done in time. I worry...

It's pretty dull and dark here. Raining and wet.... typical October weather actually. We had to cancell our halloween party because half the people we invited couldn't come...it's not really a party if only 5 people come. I think we might do a theme party at a later date...So another Halloween will come and go without it being halloweenie.

The writing continues but slowly atm. I can't write full time and do scrolls full time and take care of the house and stuff. There are not enough hours in the day so right now the story takes the back bench to the scrolls. After university but before Coronation things should quiet down a bit, but I will get stuff ready for coronation because that is ALWAYS nuts ... I am working for two sets of royals then... and that means double duty. -woof!

It's a good job that I am a chapter ahead of myself...I don't want to disappoint my readers :) ( love you guys)

Looking forward to the mini event in Vicenza coming up. Should be small and a lot of fun! Mostly an excuse to talk scribe stuff and drink copeous amounts of tea!

okay... that's my life in a nutshell. busy and stressed over stuff I don't get paid for... how weird is that?

until then, y'all, be excellent to each other!

It's going to be a busy few weeks. In fact I think it's going to be mad right up until Christmas. We got back from crown and it felt a bit weird like the eyes of the world were watching me. I *know* I am being watched but it still feels very weird. There was some very odd and pretty unnerving conversation about which track I am on...Pelican or laurel...and it was pretty to the point. Had me a nervous wreck after wards but I think that was partially the wine.

Doing scrolls is it an art or a service? Or both? This ties into the signet job which I have been at for 3 years now, one more official year to go but if I can't find someone who I know will take care of the scribes and love the job as much as I do then who knows.... I won't hand it off to just anyone just because my term is up. It needs to go to someone who has the time and thededication to keep it from falling apart, to keep naggingthe crown and to encourage the scribes without abusing them. It's not quite as easy as it first appears.... trust me on this I know.

Yesterday I got a revised list for University and my eyes bugged out of my head. LOTS of work I am hoping some other scribes take up the pen and not just my usual faithful ones but so far the scribal front is quiet, with my reliable scribes already working. THis leaves me in a bit of an off spot because there are some hefty awards going out and I'd rather that not all of these scrolls were done by me. I reckon I have a week of badgering and pleading before it falls on my shoulders to get the scrolls done so that they can be presented in court, it's a tough debate to give them to someone who can't get it done in time. Because it's nice when they are handed out in court and not sent via mail.

I just finished a huge puzzle cap with a billion filigree bits. Holy cows. I love doing this filigree ( red work) stuff because it's so damned easy to do. It looks pretty and it's very period, especially with a really meaty gothic hand as some of the examples I have show. I plan on eventually doing a trial of one example I have for maybe a Peerage scroll later on, that will take a while to do because it's a lot of sniggly bits. But ow I havethe pens and the inks that make it work just right and the eyes as well.

It seems that my mismatched eyesight actually works in my scribal favour. I am very near sighted in my left eye but have almost 20-20 vision in my right. On most days this is a pain in the ass because it really plays merry hobb with my depth perception but you know what... I can do detail work like crazy because that wonky left eye acts like a magnifying glass. I have often filled the teeeny weeny images of scrolls on the scrolls I do wih text, messages for the recipient but apparantly no one else can see these because they need a magnifying glass. Marcus pointed this out to me that there was no way, even with his perfect eyesight that he could see the text on Honor's panache because it was just too tiny.... I was like huh, well how about that. So the upshot of this is that filigree work is easy for me to do. What it also made me realise was that while I was nagging certain scribes about detail work of their own the problem is not their skill as they tell me but chances are their eyesight. So at the Scribal event at John and Honor's in November we're going to try an experimant, using an embroidery magnifying glass to see if that helps. I know the talent is there but jeeze if youcan'tget up close to see what you are doing then how can you do it. It never occurred to me before that I was the one with the advantage... hmmmmm

Going to order some new W&N series 7 brushes as well, all mine are damned near dead. Firstly I don't take the greatest care of them and second I abuse them like crazy and third most of the ones I have are actually brushes my father had so they are at least 20 years old. Time to get new brushes.

I made a huge batch of scribe gift bags for Craown and they seemed to go down well. In fact most scribes seemed very surprised to get a gift I was like hell if I, as signet, don't say thank you to you guys, who the hell will.. NOT the recipients of scrolls that's for sure, although to be fair that is changing, slowly.... but we learn by example so i am bound and deturmined to set a good one in this area.

I also have 1st draft copies of my scribe hand book and the text booklet as well, I am hopingto get feed back from a couple of the more experienced scribes in Kingdom but since the booklet itself is not kingdom specific but rather a general here's how it works sort of thing for the beginner I think it will be just fine. I tried to make it fun and easy to read, and my house kid / student Ali said she learned a lot from the sample I sent her to taker a look at which was nice. I have a few long term goals which are slowly starting to take shape, as signet and one of these was to get a decent place for decent easy to use information for the scribes and teh scribe wannabes... of which there ae many.

I was surprised that just one appearance at crown spawned a bunch of queries and requests, most of my week has been working on scrolls, answering emails about scribe stuff and trying to unpack.Of course it didn't help that I got kind sick after crown, mostly because I got too cold and couldn't get warm. Feel better now. Looking forward to helping the newest set of people who have come with that almighty question... so how do I become a scribe???? I love it. It is my favourite question in the world. I get to teach, I get to share and best of all I get to give stuff to new scribs and seeingtheir faces light up when they realise that someone believes ...yes you too can do this stuff.

I guess I shoudl show up at events more often..... now if we can just move the Alps that would be easy.

I'll be holding scriptorium at Uni, and I know that Ali will teach gold leaf..funny enough my student will be teachingthe method I taught her and you know what she does it so much better than I do. I am so lookingforward to her class to see how she has altered the method to get better results. Her gold work is fantastic. One of her AOA scrolls was handed out at Crown and a person sitting near me said wow that work is so much better than AOA stuff ( well that's paraphrasing) but I knew what they meant. I believe that AOAs should look great and there are a whole string of reasons for this but it was a good compliment for her. This is a student who will outshine herteacher in a matter of a few years. She is so very good at what she does and if I compare where we were at the same time she is so much better than me. It's great!  I also hope that Mistress C. will maybe drop in and teach quill cutting again ...of course I coudl also ask because last time she was doing that I was working on a scroll and not paying attention.

I also, for the first time in forever was given a critique at Crown, well of course most people who can critic never see me work, but this event I displayed for comment at the A&S and had a chat with one of teh laurels who is a C&I laurel. The weird thing was she pointed out on thing that had my own Master beenthere he woudl have laughed because that was probably the very first issue he had with me as well and the second thing she pointed out was like a light bulb.

I went back, after crown, and relooked at all my older work and realsied that the one thing she had pointed out was the one thing that had been missing from many of the pieces I had done. It was an ZOMG moment. I think that is one of the harder things about being isolated and not getting to events and not getting to hear other people's critiques. It's nice that people say oh my god you are so awesome but it doesn't help me as a scribe / artist learn.

What it made me realise was HOW much I miss Master harold. And how much I missed out on and that made me incredibly sad. Still over all, I think I have managed to grow and learn on my own with a few nudges here and there but it has been an incredibly slow process. I am not one of those super scribes that can learn a new hand in a day or whip off a bunch of scrolls, calligraphy etc,... in an evening. It takes me a bit to do that, and while if I have to I can do an AOA in a day I'd rather not.

I did get a batch of new/old pen nibs the other day off an ebay bid. Was annoyed when the package came because the box was broken, but the nibs survived. ( The ebay dude was pissed I gave a neutral review but hell pack stuff better in future. He was very rude and I don't deal well with that, especially since I paid quite a chunk of money for this particular auction)So now I have approx 550 nibs to play with around 24 or so different kinds.... there is another box of nibs/nib holders and inks on it's way....I hope. We paid for it already so we'll see...I love older nibs they are just so much better to work with.

So for the next three weeks I will be chained to my scribal desk...in bewteen I will be chained to my writing desk. Where the hell did all these projects come from. Inbetween that I have a mountain of Italian homework, a mountain of housework and a billion emails to answer.

However today is day off. Go shopping, get the house tidy and have a nice dinner with friends this evening. No scrolls, no Star Wars no brain boggling emails to answer... ( not that I mind) it#s saturday...day off Yippieee....

So now I need to make a shopping list and shower to get on the go... we got off to a late start this AM. But that's okay too.

So all you peeps out theer have an awesome weekend!

Until then be excellent to each other.

Why is that SCA events always feel as though you've been away for a month rather than a weekend? We drove up to John & Honor's on Thursday night, had a GREAT evening of chit chat and getting readiness, Since J was in germany it was just the poika, H, me an dmarcus and we had fun! We drove out around 11ish and left Vicenza around 1ish...after the errands were run. The drive to Austria was mostly uneventful and we LOVE doing that convoy thing... we're the little opel astra following the great big blue van! We drove the autostrada / bahn depending on country until 'jane' told us to 'turn right now' and we followed the big blue van since Jane is Honor's navi system. Well.... talk about the scenic route. up up up we go into the Austrian alps and the road is getting narrower and windier.... eep. By night fall we were like ZOMG!!!WTF are we? but we were very close and despite the speeding gonzo locals who know this route but were NOT expeciting the mosnter van to come around the corner we made it eventually in one piece. All the while being entertained by Radio Slovenia International.... we could ahve done 4 countries in one weekend if we had dipped across the Slovenian border! As it was we did 3, switzerland, Italy and Austria.

Arrival at Schloß Limberg was punctuated by the usual mad hugs and hullos, check in chaos ( no we want to bring stuff right up to our room NOW not later so we need to know NOW where we are sleeping not later!!!!!)and unpacking madness....Then we were quartered on the 2nd floor ( that's the third floor for us north americans.... so it was a lot of schlepping. Small room which was so cold.... ( we'll get to the cold later)
some small images are here just to give an idea of what the place looks like.
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I begin the nesting proceedure while the boys schlepped. Made a home and dug out the kettle so that Honor and I could have tea, Marcus had a beer and the poika was very happy with that funky austrian stuff he was drinking... looks like iron bru.

Once the griping and the unwinding had taken place we got into garb and began to settle...Then it hit me HOW cold it was so I went to crank on the heater but it was already turned up with no heat. I had planned on being in a heated castle not an unheated castle so I didn't bring a lot of the usual I am going to freeze garb with me.. so needless to say by the time i was ready for bed I was shivering bone cold. It was cold enough to see yuor breath in the room and I hate that. I have one been that cold at Double Wars and 1 ar n'eilean'ne event ( the one in the karate club in the dead of winter with no heat and no kitchen... ah good old days). Good job my husband doubles as a heater. But the beds being single bunk beds i kicked him out when I was warm enough to sleep. The room we were in was 1 person over booked as well so we had a ton of people all shivering together. brrrrrr.

Saturday was tourney day, it began weird and stayed that way. ( not the tourney, just my day) I shall state for the record right here and now, I don't enjoy doing lady in waiting type stuff for anyone unless I am really really prepared before hand which is why I _never_ volunteer for this job, I'd rather clean men's bath rooms than do this. ( Bad experience from a previous kingdom) but that all got worked out in the end and I could get about the business I had to do.

I got to do a lot of signet / scribe stuff. Chat with my scribes, those astounding people who make teh scrolls, and got some great feedback on my work, something doesn't happen a lot which gave me a ton to think about and more direction. YAY.

Judged an A&S for the first time in my life and felt very uncomfortable doing it but was interesting to see the process. I guess I would do it again, and probably it gets easier with each round. Still I heard a nice song and got to test some lovely marzipan and I LOVE MARZIPAN!!!!!

Ran around gathering scrolls from scribes, dropped them off to the Royals, only one did not make it in time sadly, but I am sure it's on it's way to them as we speak. All the while bopping in and out to watch the tourney and take care of my wonderful husband who was filming the entire thing at the request of jakob ( XXs and Oos)

Sir Maximillian and his lovely lady Baroness Margerite are the new Crown prince and princess. whoo hooo

After that was A&S stuff, then all the peer meetings happened....behind a closed door with Lord Alexander and his mighty axe guarding it. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time!!!!then a quick court then feast.
feast was yummy.
Within feast was court and it was wonderful fun to watch all the people who so deserve their awards being given stuff! I love my job!But the up and down and up and down as a lidquistring and panache holder is just almost giggly funny...hard on th eknees. I liked the idea of panache / lindquistringes knee pads... stone floors are hard!

Then all the way through was great entertainment ( I wonder if I can badger J. into singing the shield wall song some time) and once we had stuffed ourselves silly we began the process of table hopping, and chatting with people. Some strange and unsettling conversation was had and I had waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much red wine and ended up getting incredibly emotional... that hasn't happened in a while. :( I was mostly overwhelmed I think.Too much attention. I like to be Invisible Bridget not Noticed Bridget. Next time I remember to pack my cloak of invisability because the Gugel of invisibility isn't working any more.

Got to harrass squires into maybe Being scribes ...HAH Sir Wiglaf take that! Got to actually meet one of my most active scribes.... she shares the same name as I do in real life way weird and cool.
Got to give presents, always always a very awesome thing.

Learned that I am not the only person who knows what a DPT chip is!

Was spoiled rotten by Mistress J.

Got to harass Master Johan. ( tee hee hee you got called up in court nananananana aetsch!!) I figure getting your Pelicab scroll after 6 years from being inducted is a good reason to get yanked up in court!

The heat got turned on sometime on Saturday and I tell you there was MUCH rejoicing all around.

Watched some dancing but by the time we made it to the dance hall, I was too tipsy to dance and too cold and too tired. It was nice to watch though.

By the time we poured into bed it was late and very dark.
Sunday morning began with a hang over but improved as the day went. Because Marcus was tired we overnighted at J&H's and unwound in the best possible way, quietly, with best friends and a warm dog.

We left their place in steath mode at 5am this morning and the trip took us 4m hours due to MAD Italian traffic. We arrived home to sunny bright skies, a house that was WARM and a pile of laundry. I made my hubby breakfast and sent him off to work, then settled in to catch up on the emails and the signet stuff... oh boy oh boy oh boy.

called my youngest house kid, and told her what a good job she had done with her scroll! ( she got major complimenti on her work)

now it's gear up for university!

so...
back to work hi ho hi ho ( I have to find my desk though eep!)

will post scroll pictures and event shots soon, I promise...

 until then be excellent to each other!

www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/make_ink.html

if you scroll down on the page to the ref about logwood you'll see the ref to indigo.

I finished the big piece i have been madly working on for about a week now yesterday. This is a big thing because it is pretty much the first SCA / medieval style piece I have done that wasn't actually for an award. It's a b- day gift for a friend. I was worried about doing it because even though I am starting to do okay at this period style art stuff, I never think I am good enough so I worry it won't turn out, I'll spell something wrong, I'll spill ink all over the page, the drawing doesn't come out right and so on...In the end it turned out very well. (I'll show it after it has been given).

I wonder why I never think to do these sorts of things for people as gifts more often.

My project ( one of them) for the winter is making ink. I have a biscuit tin full of oak galls I got in Germany two years ago and now I am looking into buying Iron II sulphate and indigo. Been dying to make my oak gall-iron ink for ages now especially give the prices that some places charge for a teeny weenie bottle. We get walnuts growing here as well, which means if I wanted to I could make walnut ink.. hmmm

www.kremer-pigmente.de/englisch/homee.htm

 We discovered an awesome shop on the weekend in Lugano, penna e carta. Okay so this is a shop that mainly sells Abraxas callig supplies and HAND made books. (the husband makes the books on site himself and they are lovely) I bought lots of stuffs for my scribes to give as gifties, and some very gorgeous red ink for me. made from natural stuffs it has a sweetly perfumey smell and the colour is well, purpur / red. BEAUTIFUL. And the niftiest thing is the bottle has a ridge so that you can rest your pen on it. How clever is that?

www.cartaepenna.ch

www.abraxasswitzerland.com/

I am just working on a very nice scroll atm, for crown and it is all done in the style found in the Duc de berry stuff. Fiddly but fun, lots of angels in the margins doing things...I should have gilded it but my gesso is a bit off and I can't be arsed to make a new batch. I have to make less next time but really I only use a tablespoon of gum Arabic and sugar + 4 Tbs of distilled water... still it gets mouldy pretty fast. annoying actually. It won't look quite so bling bling with gold paint but still I think it's fancy enough. Lots of sniggly bits, bar and ivy stuff... and filigree ink work etc... it's eye candy but I know the recipient so it was fun to do.

I got books in the mail yesterday from my very amazing friend B. He sends me books quite often and I am never sure how to thank him for his over whelming generosity. I want to make something for him but I just don't know what, I waffle between trying to figure out a book to make or a painting or something, anything... he has been so kind to me and given me so much I just don't know what to do in return.

Anyway one of the books was The Wild life of Star wars, and it is just lovely. Great drawings and fun to read.
I am still working on my scribal guides for the kingdom and now that Marcus is web minister maybe getting stuff done to the web page won't be such a huge frigging battle. I stopped bothering after it took nearly a year to get my GD mailing address changed and that only happened after a fight. Sheesh...

the down slide now, only two more sets of royals to go before I am not signet any more. Need to find a replacement. I've done my two terms it would be mental suicide to do a third. But I want to get a decent info page up and running before I hand over this job. Trouble is I loath making web pages. and I do mean LOATH. So it is the one project that I have really been procrastinating on.

Not much else going on. Might get a day trip to Zürich next week the pissy thing is is that it is the same day as our Italian classes and I am JUST starting to get into the swing of them again, I hate missing class. I am so OCD it's a little scary sometimes. Marcus commented on this when I organised all the little chocolate bits into what sort of chocolate they are... grrrrr Still we have not been to Zürich yet and it would be cool to bum around a new city and they sort of speak German up there.

okay back to work my paint must be dry by now... and yeah I'm double posting this to recycled crows cuz I am a lazy ass today.

ciao