the story so far:

[thanate]

went to event, fought lots, got lots of points. yay! (48 of them, when I think my previous record was about 19... I was pretty definitely in the top third of the 20-some fighters there.) have aquired the dubious honor of being barionial rapier champion for the next year, along with a buckler that broke, and a belt favor that's currently MIA. Hm... Oh well, it will be Good For Me. (and I handed the shield to my father, who put cross-beams on the back of the glued-together buckler, so that it should be safe to carry it around with me until the new one gets made)

tomorrow, I head in the southness, go see things, get to see boy (yay!) and fight more people. and all that good stuff. tentative itinerary includes a little blue ridge parkway, Great Smoky Mountains Nat'l Park, a cool archaeology museum in Knoxville, Tennessee Aquarium, Rock City, and the Parthenon (full scale replica in Nashville)

It turns out that this is a good week to be travelling, as garden_goth tells me that all the projects at work are still pending, and so I would be at loose ends this week anyway. I might do some more of the blue ridge parkway on the way back, depending on what Carey says when I call in on Friday.

So-- I may or may not be reachable for the next week; I won't be bringing my computer (traumatic separation!!) but I should be checking my voicemail at least once a day. Otherwise, I'll be back by the evening of Tuesday the 20th at the latest.

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according to the signs (and I quote): "Educator Philip Lindsley first called Nashville the "Athens of the West" in the 1840s, fifty years before the Parthenon was built. Lindsley and other Nashville educators believed in a classical education, including Latin instruction."

Um... Latin --> Greek --> Athens --> Parthenon. I'm not sure I quite grasp the logical leaps here either. But hey, they have a 41+ foot tall statue of Athena in faux chriselephantine, with two Medusa heads. What's not to love?