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After the madness of the last fortnight, I was having trouble slowing down - my competitive blood was up and suggestions like "take a moment, relax" weren't really doing it for me. So, I set a course for Maximum Relaxation - determined to relax MORE than anything else on the horizon. I ran rings around weekend holidaymakers, woke up at the crack of dawn to get a head start on a hard day's sleeping in. It was grand... I've never relaxed so hard in my life ;)

Friday night was Traum:Fabrik, with Stefan and

aeliel. I'm reluctant to say how little I enjoyed the night, after reading the organisers flaming someone on the gothic.org.au forums for daring to speak their mind... Sure, there were plenty of people watching the bands. There were even a couple of people dancing to them. On the whole, though, we just ended up waiting until 2am when the DJs started playing something I felt like dancing to... Upstairs, there were about a dozen people staring at an empty dancefloor, getting drunk to the sounds of tired old 80's tunes. The mezzanine level (no music, seats, pool table) was the most interesting of the lot, but I didn't pay $10 to watch people playing pool. The last hour we stayed for was better, but it should have happened much earlier than that. If this was really a "big crowd" for Cabaret Nocturne, I won't be going back until the next Lychnobyte happens. In the promoter's words, "Whoop-de-fuck. Sounds like you'd rather go somewhere else... so please, do. Nobody forces you to go to Dream, so if you dislike it so much, sod off." I just hope they never complain about having trouble making money on the door...

Saturday was a day of lazing about, punctuated only by heading over to

bishi_wannabe and

miss_rynn's place to begin the Garden of Jade Roses game. Characters were planned, schemes were hatched, cake was eaten. I'm looking forward to having a weekend game running again ;)

Sunday night was the Great Creperie Search of 2005. The weekend marks a year's anniversary for

aeliel and I, and we had planned to head to the Briezoz Creperie for dinner. After finding that it's moved, and isn't open on a Sunday night, we ended up going to Mao's on Brunswick Street. Wonderful food, but I still crave crepes...

In other news, the

mousebane's,

lynsis' and other Gaiman fans out there may want to look at the MirrorMask website - a film by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman. Thanks to

peacockangel for the link - I think I'll have to see this one ;)