Not a mermaid.

Went to the Summer Flea with arawen and whispercricket today. My second public outing in a state of formal collarage (the first being dinner last night).

Puttered about for the shopping. Looked at things. Poked at things. Was hit with a few things. Successfully managed to meet maymay and Eileen for a couple of wave-bys. Found flogger that is functional for the ritual purposes that I wanted one for, and is gorgeous.

Was mildly baffled by a vendor who asked me if I was a mermaid. Er, no? (Yes, I am wearing blue. Nonetheless, I do not have fins, and I do have genitalia. People are strange.) (Did you know mermaids are one of the classic symbols of sexual frustration? Hence my using a sculpture I was already making as a presentation piece for the cross-disciplinary Madame Bovary English presentation ....)

Went to late lunch/early dinner at an Ethiopian place right across from the Flea that whispercricket had heard of. It was good. Stopped at the Alewife Whole Foods on the way out, which was less hellish than the last time I was there.

Home now. Very tired and blurry. I will probably manage dwarves for a while now to decompress.