To all the folk I'll see at Pennsic:

[mightyjesse]

The mugs for the Coffee Shoppe have arrived and while they aren’t *quite* the shade of red print I had envisioned, they are beautiful because they are custom and just for us. I am drinking coffee out of one now… (They’re more orangey than red… but I wanted fire colors and this counts, I suppose. I was running with a “fire cleanses all” theme, you know.) As usual, I will be accepting Coffee, Bushmills/Jamesons, and Bailey’s donations for the shoppe, only this year I can give you something OTHER than hostess services in exchange for your gift… I can give you coffee – IN A CUP – instead of just making you hold out your hands while I pour boiling coffee into them.

(Here's the finished design that was printed on the mug:)


I can’t WAIT for Pennsic. I don’t care if I’m DEAD by Pennsic, I will have Zig pack my corpse into the car and drop it off at Troll. I. Need. A. Vacation.

Also I miss you all a lot. You make me laugh.

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[nuclear-toast.livejournal.com]

Do you own a coffee shop?

Coffee Shoppe, Group Therapie, and Assassins' Guilde

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

Not... exactly...

It's a long story, but here's as short a version as I can give you:

Every year I attend a medieval war re-enactment called Pennsic. It is 2 weeks long and involves roughly 15,000 people all camping in rural Pennsylvania. About 7 years ago when I started camping with Vlad's (It's a group of 44 or so people who always "circle their wagons" and camp together.) I was dating a person who NEEDED coffee to wake up. SO I made sure he always had it. Eventually it became known that I had coffee-production technology in the woods, and people other than my boyfriend started showing up with empty mugs and looking pathetic. After a number of years, I found myself serving 4 GALLONS of irish coffee every morning to a group of "regulars". We would sip our hot brew, gossip about the previous night's drama (group therapy), and make our "battle plan" for the rest of the day (assassins guild). I jokingly started referring to my tent as the "Coffee Shoppe" and the name stuck as more and more people started filing in for their morning caffiene. Eventually I got a sign for out front that said "Coffee Shoppe, Group Therapie & Assassins' Guilde (rates vary). People started making donations of booze and coffee to me so that I could continue serving the Irish without being killed by the expense of 4 handle bottles of liquor being consumed in 2 weeks...

So yes and no. I am the "originator" of the inside joke of the "coffee shoppe". Really it's just my tent and my love of hostessing duties and the fact that if anyone looks sufficiently pathetic, I will caffienate them.

Re: Coffee Shoppe, Group Therapie, and Assassins' Guilde

[nuclear-toast.livejournal.com]

With a name like that... You could really open a coffee shop and probably do well. It sounds edgy and trendy.

[othelianna.livejournal.com]

Heh. I like it.

[gigawattwarlock.livejournal.com]

Heh. I like the text. :)