it's like the eye of a duck

Word of the Weekend: fellagirly (scroll down), used by vree to describe me. Also my mis-remembering it as "femmyboy" enticed a weird Jeeves and Wooster flashback in my head ("Sit upon my knee, femmyboy, you were only three, femmyboy...")

Maybe you had to be in my skull that day :P

It has been a wonderful but very overclocked weekend, starting with shemhazai landing in town and a trip down to the women's party, with which I was much impressed. Fantastic space with lots of room and the cleanest, most well-appointed bathrooms I've ever seen in a nightclub. I got to try a St. Andrew's cross!

The fellowship, play, conversation, and eye candy were most pleasing. About 30 women showed up, which sounds small but I think it's the most people I've seen at a party of this type before. I felt very comfortable, because I knew I was among friends :)

Friday was a very late night, but for some reason I was up at 10 the next morning, and Shem and I meandered down to meet up with vree at the leather vending for the event over the weekend. Many beautiful, twitch-inducing and wonderfully leather scented items were on hand, but I was fiscally good, and only got the aforementioned pair of socks.

Much of the rest of the day was spent lunching and window shopping and going to a birthday party briefly where we met many interesting people, including margoeve and elkor. Much good conversation followed, though by this time I was so deeply bone tired that even the bowl of coffee I slurped up
didn't help me keep up so well. Thought provoking statements and observations were made that I may write more on later after I've had some groking time. I hope to meet these folks more in the future when I'm more awake/it is quieter!

Today was a much lower key day - Shem and I went out to lunch with C., G., and orangesophie and had much more conversation.

Now chilling at home, doing administrativia and thinking about curling up with Shem for a movie and peanut butter sandwich (at this moment, peanut butter is the finest food under heaven).

Whipping therapy cures depression and suicide crises - don't know how reliable a source Pravda is but with a prescription of "30 sessions of 60 whips on the buttocks", I'm willing to be hopeful :)

Hello Kitty dungeon - because it's just so twisted

Just finishing up a busy weekend here. I feel kind of burnt out on several levels, but an early night should help.

Saturday: lots I wanted to do so got up (relatively) early.

( first stop )

( clothing score )

( shiny things )

( Batman Begins - no spoilers )

( Sunday rapier )

Got kind of long winded there - not sure why. I AM tired.

After a couple of days of sinus pain that made my teeth want to fall out and other indicative yuck that I won't detail here, I figured I should probably see a professional :P Sure enough, I have a sinus infection. I've been given a course of anti-biotic horse pills to get rid of this thing! Apart from the pain and drain, I'm mostly recovered.

Also got confirmation that my registration for the relational database class went through (yay!) so I'm looking at getting the required reading ASAP so I can be prepared. Urgh, argh - I didn't expect the book to be quite that expensive ($115!), though considering that computer/technical books often come with CDROMs and other "add-ons" I suppose I shouldn't be that surprised. I am looking for it used, of course!

Miscellanea: the Serenity trailer is out. Again, I exhort you - if you missed Firefly, don't miss this. Much good storytelling and ripping one-liners!

While at the grocery to pick up my horse pills, I went through the candy section looking for the elusive dark chocolate M&Ms, to no avail. Here's hoping they're only temporarily sold out!

Discussion elsewhere reminded me of Slavercise. I got one of the exercise videos a couple of years ago as a gag gift (or, I think it was a joke ;) ) and decided to check it out again. Domina in leather puts men through their paces and in their places - I think it's intended for audiences into humiliation, but while it doesn't necessarily trip my trigger, the creators are in earnest! Salon review of one of the in-house training sessions (free pass and all that).

Wish I could make this a little more uplifting and exciting than it is, but it's hard to fake enthusiasm when your nose is leaking down your throat :/

Making Latex Clothes - with this book and this link I'm learning about the nuances of working with rubber - it will be a long while before I make anything substantial, but I may get some washing gloves and rubber cement just to get used to working with the material. Other work: check out LatexDesigner.com for beautifully delicate rubber roses and imp_of_satan for rubbery photography (possibly NSFW).

Keeping with the rubber theme: Boing Boing ran a story on Making your own WWII era "victory espadrilles" but as the link to instructions doesn't work, I'm going to focus on the other link regarding making sandals out of old tires. Interesting technique, but a bit too "birkenstocky" for me - got all these lovely treads, make BOOTS! And if your feet sweat, well, that's what socks (and winter!) are for, aren't they? :P