what a week! i'm back home now and i've had an absolute ball.
the nywf was excellent, a lot different to what i was expecting it to be like, and it's a definite that i'm going again next year. gunna take mark with me too this time. and we'll stay at a backpackers, or somewhere with a communal kitchen - or maybe not, if we want to get any sleep at all! hehe. but who needs sleep when there are so many people to meet, so much silliness to be shared, so many beers to drink? this festival i found myself focussed on what i was scheduled to do, and the rest of the time was spent just talking to people, taking disco naps, drinking beer, sitting in the park, wandering around going 'woah', and occasionally eating something. next year i'd still ike to be a participant, involved in events and such, but i'd also like to actually go to some of the other sessions that i'd marked out with highlighter on the train trip up there.
i think it's funny how i went all the way to newcastle to make friends with a bunch of people from melbourne. what a hoot! i now have a whole extended family - literally, we're all sham-wives in the same sham-marriage - in melbourne.
next year, i wanna come back with a zine for the fair. maybe i'll call it sham-wife.