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From the Chair...
Heather
Parish, CIRGA Vice Chairperson
June 18, 2007
The massive confusion of a guild mistress. . . .
. . . four days before a faire.
I have a sinking feeling that the CIRGAzette I sent out to about a dozen guild
masters today was, in fact, last month's Tudor Times, the St. H newsletter. I
would say that I have no idea how such a thing occured, but in fact, I know
EXACTLY how such a thing occured. I like to call it "the unconscious riptides
most often illiciting lapses", or. . .in other words. . . TURMOIL!
Having just started a new job 8 weeks ago, I've not yet got in the groove of
gearing up for a big faire weekend while having 50 hours of my week carved
out for me. Why didn't anyone warn me???
Oh, wait. . . they did.
As a result of the aforementioned TURMOIL, I have two separate computers,
unable to be linked in any meaningful way, and the stuff I have sent out from
work comes from a folder I haven't bothered to properly organize. And the
inevitable result is that everyone in the world knows my obsession with
"story" and that there's some actual period Shakespeare going on in the
world. Well, I guess that's not so bad, is it? But the flip side is that everyone
also knows that I'm a big ol' flake the week before a faire!
I have a list a mile long of things that have to happen between now and
Thursday night (no I won't bother to list them all. If you want a clue, as YOUR
OWN guild master what they have to do a week before a faire and you MIGHT
get a clue).
As a matter of fact, this whole insane run up to an event is why I created a
Tee Shirt that says, "Have you hugged your guild mistress today?" I really
think I need to get a bunch of them and sell them at faire. If nothing else, to
remind everyone that this stuff doesn't just happen with a wrinkling of our
perky little noses!
Yeah, this rambling post about turmoil and lists is really just coming down to
one final message:
This weekend, at Fair Oaks, in the midst of the heat and the crazy. . . stop
bitching for a few minutes and say thanks to the people in your guild who
make it happen. They'll appreciate a few minutes of positivity more than you
can ever know!!
Heather Parish
Vice Chair
Heather is the Guild Mistress of St. Henry’s Guild, Chair
of the Fresno City College Renaissance Festival, and Actor-Manager of
Shakespeare’s Sisters: An all-female act of Supreme Bardiness.)
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