thank you

[truepenny]

Thank you to everyone who offered encouragement and support and commiseration over my Impending Doom (TM). It makes a tremendous difference to know that people care, that in fact there are people on my side.

Y'all are the best.

Comments

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Sangyn and ash (http://ourworld.cs.com/_ht_a/constancefairfax/Claie.htm). Obviously. :)

[libskrat]

Heh heh heh. Now I shall have to take time off work in order to burst in on the conference wielding sangyn and ash pompons.

(Breathe, Truepenny. Breathe. I wouldn't really.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it would be really funny if you did.

[marith.livejournal.com]

You can do it! And then you will feel Immensely Relieved and fall over.

I am thinking of a book I loved when I was a kid and have been unable to find since, called _How To Become King_. (*spoilers ahead*)
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The cranky ministers of state set the hero seven impossible tasks (since he wouldn't go away) and about halfway through they realized he was being entirely too successful. So they told him his next task was to jump from the top of the highest tower in the city.

Fortunately his allies understood about grassroots activism. By the time of the scheduled jump people had come from all over to throw every pillow they owned at the base of the tower. The hero made a fluffy landing and an effective speech, proving his point to the ministers.

Consider us your metaphorical pillow-throwers :) *tosses a large goosefeather pillow onto the pile*

[rliz.livejournal.com]

I like this thought.

<tosses a pillow>

[libskrat]

Okay, so what color pillows go with sangyn and ash pompons?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

My impulse would be to go for the Elizabethan colors (http://ourworld.cs.com/_ht_a/constancefairfax/Claie.htm) with the prettiest names. (N.b., that's prettiest names, not necessarily prettiest colors.) Because where else am I going to get to use them?

So: Clodie Colour, Isabelline, Murrey, Amarante, Gingerline, Incarnate, Nacarade, Watchet, Celadon, Verdigris, Inciannomati.

Or you could go with the most, um, distinctive color-names, which would include Dying Spaniard, Rat Colour, Puke, Lustie-Gallant, Ventre de biche (doe's stomach), Goose-turd Green, Milk and Water, Whey.

*grins at own foolishness*

That was fun.

[hedda62.livejournal.com]

I just think it is really cool that it's happening on Guy Fawkes Day. And I'm sure you'll do brilliantly. Like, with fireworks even. Best of luck.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

You're gonna go out there a simple understudy from the chorus-line, but you're going to come back a STAR.