FINALLY SOME GREAT WEATHER! Wildfire was awesome in the sun. I actually got to take lessons, burn, and flit around to chat. It definitely felt too crowded for my taste, rather more impersonal than it used to be. I took my first drumming lesson and it was a lot of fun even if I couldn't follow along too well. Spinning to the drummers is my all time favorite. I'm still picking up tricks but have not yet figured out how to put them all together in a way that flows nicely without getting whacked in the face. Storyteller took a zillion photos. This is one of them. I wish I could afford him a nice camera and some classes. He's got a knack.

My favorite customized glow poi went "missing." I absentmindedly left them with (or in) my sweatshirt under a bench and the disappeared. *pout* Oh well, it was worth it.

First, last night I discovered the key to my ability to hyperloop - twisted oval link chains instead of ballchain. Less slipage. Still can't get it smoothly. It's wierd, I love my ballchained monkeyfists, but lately my twisted oval link cylinder poi have been easier to manipulate. I discovered this at flatrocks last night. Unfortunately we didn't have any fuel so I couldn't work on it lit. Well, lit on fire anyways.

Okay, last weekend - Wildfire! I had a good time despite the rain. The organizers did an AMAZING job, as usual. I got to take a really decent firedart class. Other than that I was lazy as hell and just decided to focus on chilling out and relaxing with friends. Did some swimming after the rain so it was sooooo cold. I didn't burn as much as I wanted to. My first burn was terrible so it kind of put me off burning. I don't like the crowded field. I suppose if I had stayed up later, the field wouldn't have been so crowded. But I crashed early this year cause life just has me tired. The best part about that was that I've been listening to audio books on my headphones while I sleep for the past 6 months so I could actually fall asleep while the chaos was happening and sleep through it. Although I'm listening to this story called Eragon by Chris Paolini and it's kinda boring. *shrug* Whatever, it helped me sleep through festival chaos. I've got some much better ideas for signs next year even though people seemed to really like the ones that I made. I drove by them and turned my critical eye on them more harshly than most. The picture attached to this post is of the sculpture Arlen and Dmitri The Groundskeeper made when they spent the entirity of Saturday creating bonfires out of huge wading pool sized puddles that were our firepits after the rain. They, Peter, Griffin and a couple others did a great job getting those fires going and it really took them all day.

Tonight we're going camping with my mom and aunt in a yurt (yert?) at Otter River by Lake Dennison. In fact, I've got to go pack now.