What happens during the week (at TRF)
Oct. 22nd, 2004 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asthranReally, what happens during the week is dependant on a individuals desire and motivation. You can smoke pot all day if you want (and can afford it), or you can do piecework or other projects. However, here are some of the places people tend to go to socialize or learn or whatever...
During the weekends, and especially so at TRF, people have very little time to cook. So, instead, there are a few places that have sprung up where you can go and get a good meal for $6 or so. Rio's is right across the street from me - he has set up a kitchen/diner behind his house, and his menu is pretty constant - salmon, chicken, or crap-forgot-the-name-mexican-food. The Yellow House is almost to the end of Renfaire Drive, and is, as you might expect, a big yellow house. The Yellow House seems to have a variable menu, but I haven't eaten there yet, so I can't say for certain. The third place is the Copper Rose, at the very end of Renfaire Drive. The Copper Rose is the only place that is open all week long, and last year they got a beer liscene, so they sell beer as well.
The Coppper Rose is the most amenable of these places for socializing, as it is open all week, and they just got a pool table, and keep a couple board games out. However, whereever there are two people gathered, you can expect there is some socializing going on.
On Sunday nights, after everyone is back from work, there is a drum jam that starts about 11pm. It's pretty neat: There is a large circle of benches (yes, stone ones) around a fire, with the drummers all on the far end. Later at night there might be some dancing or fire-spinning. Non-dancers-or-drummers just sit around and chat or whatever as they see fit.
Monday morning/early afternoon is the Bizarre Bazaar. This is a flea-market/garage-sale that goes on in Rio's back yard (or maybe the yard next door?). Pretty much anyone is welcome to come and set up a table or a blanket (or massage table) and sell their stuff, whether is be bone carvings, jewelry, or old clothes.
Throughout the week, if you are so inclined, you can edify yourself through Rennie U. At the start of any given show, potential instructors will fill out a sheet listing what they are teaching, and how and/or when you can get ahold of them, and cost. These are all gathered into a binder and left at some prominent gathering spot (at the moment, at Rio's). Some of the classes being offered at TRF:
- Poi
- Hatha Yoga
- instrument lessons (Guitar and Violin, I think)
- an improv class
- Character Development for Fun and Profit (taught by one of the Washing Well Wenches)
Generally, there is at least a free-will donation of $1 per class taught or taken. This goes into a pot for something, whether it be a show-end party, or donated to RESCU, a non-profit that helps Rennies with medical emergencies.
On Wednesday nights there is a dance party. It starts around 7 or 8, but doesn't really get swinging until 10 or 11. It's really, really swank there - the host has the ultimate party deck, methinks. I don't get to sleep until late on Wednesdays, even if I wanted to - the 'Hump Dance' is just a few places up the road from where I am.
Those are the organized things that go on on Renfaire Drive. Of course, there are plenty of ways people entertain themselves. There's a lot of drinking that goes on - I feel conspicuous drinking my 6-pack of Shmirnof Ice over the course of the week, while there are people in my camp who drink 4 or 5 cans of Shiners (a Texan beer) a night. People ride their bikes, walk their dogs, work on projects, a couple people in my camp are starting a month-long herbal cleanse. It's all what you make of it.
During the weekends, and especially so at TRF, people have very little time to cook. So, instead, there are a few places that have sprung up where you can go and get a good meal for $6 or so. Rio's is right across the street from me - he has set up a kitchen/diner behind his house, and his menu is pretty constant - salmon, chicken, or crap-forgot-the-name-mexican-food. The Yellow House is almost to the end of Renfaire Drive, and is, as you might expect, a big yellow house. The Yellow House seems to have a variable menu, but I haven't eaten there yet, so I can't say for certain. The third place is the Copper Rose, at the very end of Renfaire Drive. The Copper Rose is the only place that is open all week long, and last year they got a beer liscene, so they sell beer as well.
The Coppper Rose is the most amenable of these places for socializing, as it is open all week, and they just got a pool table, and keep a couple board games out. However, whereever there are two people gathered, you can expect there is some socializing going on.
On Sunday nights, after everyone is back from work, there is a drum jam that starts about 11pm. It's pretty neat: There is a large circle of benches (yes, stone ones) around a fire, with the drummers all on the far end. Later at night there might be some dancing or fire-spinning. Non-dancers-or-drummers just sit around and chat or whatever as they see fit.
Monday morning/early afternoon is the Bizarre Bazaar. This is a flea-market/garage-sale that goes on in Rio's back yard (or maybe the yard next door?). Pretty much anyone is welcome to come and set up a table or a blanket (or massage table) and sell their stuff, whether is be bone carvings, jewelry, or old clothes.
Throughout the week, if you are so inclined, you can edify yourself through Rennie U. At the start of any given show, potential instructors will fill out a sheet listing what they are teaching, and how and/or when you can get ahold of them, and cost. These are all gathered into a binder and left at some prominent gathering spot (at the moment, at Rio's). Some of the classes being offered at TRF:
- Poi
- Hatha Yoga
- instrument lessons (Guitar and Violin, I think)
- an improv class
- Character Development for Fun and Profit (taught by one of the Washing Well Wenches)
Generally, there is at least a free-will donation of $1 per class taught or taken. This goes into a pot for something, whether it be a show-end party, or donated to RESCU, a non-profit that helps Rennies with medical emergencies.
On Wednesday nights there is a dance party. It starts around 7 or 8, but doesn't really get swinging until 10 or 11. It's really, really swank there - the host has the ultimate party deck, methinks. I don't get to sleep until late on Wednesdays, even if I wanted to - the 'Hump Dance' is just a few places up the road from where I am.
Those are the organized things that go on on Renfaire Drive. Of course, there are plenty of ways people entertain themselves. There's a lot of drinking that goes on - I feel conspicuous drinking my 6-pack of Shmirnof Ice over the course of the week, while there are people in my camp who drink 4 or 5 cans of Shiners (a Texan beer) a night. People ride their bikes, walk their dogs, work on projects, a couple people in my camp are starting a month-long herbal cleanse. It's all what you make of it.
