RedJessi

So! (That was damned easy) (how firm is the "nice" rule? I thought pirates were supposed to play dirty!)

I just know I am not going to remember everyone - especially since I really want to thank everyone and I am terribly bad with names - and most of you have several different aliases! That aside... Callenish and Salty - You guys were utterly fantastic, not only for giving me a place to stay, but also loaning me various bits of this and that, slicing off a hunk of ham and sliding me a cider on more than one occasion, for answering various and sundry questions, and just being all around awesome. Kate and Mickey - You guys were too delightful for words, for being patient and funny and informative and so darned welcoming that I believe you just may be stuck with me. And thank you for offering to help me out with the PC side of this new hobby - I am sure I will be in touch. Hanging out with you guys was one of the best things of the event for me - next to shooting Maeve! The FIRST All Girl Cannon Crew! Kate, Grace, Rusty - I had a blast (Wah-wah, terrible pun intended)! Thanks for including me, for it truly was an honor. And thank you for the drills, the education, the commraderie, and yes, even the stinky water. Ok, I lied, not for the stinky water at all, but if I had to endure the initiation, I am glad to have done so with such foine up-standing young lasses such as yerselves! Sealkie - Damnation, if the Hide wasn't just ten pounds of fun in a 2 pound bag, I don't know from fun. And not only was it cool to hang out in at night, with rhum and stories and music and such, but you also made sure tehre were always snacks on the tables, water-ade at the ready and enough shade to make it welcoming any time of the day as well. To everyone else - and I do mean everyone - thank you for being the intelligent, funny, passionate and engaging people you are! You are all amazing people and I am so grateful to have met you. I am sure I will be seeing more of you all in 2009, at the very least at the next PiP and probably before as several people have told me I simply HAVE to come to this or that event.

I've no crew, but I am planning on attending and camping beachside again.

A fender bender? I didn't hear about that, Kate! I am glad everyone is ok. I ended up extending my stay in Key West by a day, which was no big deal since I am not scheduled to close out my files until tomorrow and thus had the time to spare. Mr. Mission needed a ride to Miami to catch his flight - and so many people helped me out and answered my inane questions and gave me a tent to crawl into and loaned me pieces of clothing and taught me to fire a cannon and totally made me feel welcomed, that I wanted to help out too! But, I have now arrived home, safe, sound and in one piece no less! I will try to get to photos in the next few days - though I warn you that photography is NOT my forte at all - but I will likely write more then. For now - brain tired.

The next 3 days cannot go fast enough! I started packing, despite the fact that I can't actually leave until Thursday evening!

I would be more excited if I were not facing a MOUNTAIN of schoolwork that needs to be completed by Thursday. But, You better believe that come thursday, at 4:30 pm, I will b leaving my school FOR THE LAST TIME and singing the whole while I drive to Key West!

Got me packet! And I hafta' admit, after the next couple o' weeks of school, wot with finishing up me research and writin' 50million umpteen papers, I am like t'be MORE'N ready for some drinkin', lads! (In fact, I have a nearly full bottle of Bushmills Black Bush Irish Whiskey and some of that foine Ron Atlantico Private Cask just ready to go. If I don't dirnk it all beofre then....)

I am boring. I have red hair, my name is Jessica. Ta-Da!

I wouldn't recommend it... yer skirts will be enough of a challenge, and just think, ye drown and Maddogge will have to jump in and save ye and give ye mouth to mouth... and I mean just the thought of Maddogge...giving... ack... gag Ha! But I've got breeches from Jas. Townsend & Son! I wouldn't recommend it... yer skirts will be enough of a challenge, and just think, ye drown and Maddogge will have to jump in and save ye and give ye mouth to mouth... and I mean just the thought of Maddogge...giving... ack... gag OI!!!!!.......i CAN read ya know!!!!!! oi...HurryCaine....hows we gittin back after we're pushed off the boat???....sure swim ta shore....then wot???? ....swim back to the boat???...swim back to camp?? how far we got to swim???? really startin to re-think wearrin the armour....how hard is it swimin' in a corset??? I'm thinking it depends on how tight yer laced...

So, a lone pirate I will be?

Not nearly enough awesome in my life for that to be true. But if it WAS ytue, I would travel a few weeks ahead .... to PiP!!

So...am I the only one who takes their cues for everyday attire from different (namely victorian) eras? This is me, today, at work.

The winnings are drinkable? *begins to ponder how well she could swim in corsetry....

For someone reason, everyone who goes on the ride WITH me is rather tickled with the "We wants the redhead!" part. Personally, I'm fond of the battle between the ship and the fort m'self

Oh it is!! But ye have to fight with him to see who gets to ride on the cart... Someone must document this excursion photographically.

So, I got a call from a friend last night telling me that while going to an art show opening in downtown Hollywood, he had suddenly been besieged by pirates! It seems that Camelot Days ( http://www.camelotdays.com/info.html ) has returned to TY Park. I have never been to this particular ren fest, so I cannot vouch for it...but I may go and check it out anyway. Anyone else planning on going?

I see your Mae West and raise you a few Talullah Bankheads! "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me. " "I'm as pure as the driven slush." "The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. " "Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years" "I thought I told you to wait in the car?" (on seeing a former lover for the first time in years) "Codeine....bourbon....." (her reported last words)