I say the phrase "in my world" a lot. I also spend a lot of time driving, I prefer Pink Floyd's The Wall on long trips on I 95. For anyone who hasn't spent time on I 95 in Northern Virginia, say, on a Friday afternoon going South...or at this time of year ...going anywhere...the experience varies between feeling like Mario Andretti and hanging on for dear life in one's car, or spending a lot of time moving five miles an hour reading license plates and counting the leaves on the trees. The good thing I guess is that there are still trees to look at, which normally you don't get to see when 95 is in it's Indy 500 phase. So I spend a lot of time thinking, in between listening to the wall, and turning up my Bagpipe music just to tick off the guy next to me who's music is annoying me :) and who just happens to be in a convertible, and who just happens to think he is "all that" and who just can't understand why a woman in a Volvo Stationwagon blasting Pink Floyd or Bagpipes isn't gushing all over his car and his bad choice of music :) And those are the little moments when I think...in my world:?

In my world, my chariot may be old...but it is surrounded by steel and could plow over your little pretty chariot. In my world, wearing chainmail is perfectly normal...in any social circumstance. In my world, I would have a dragon....and yes I would pay the farmer for the occassional missing cow. :) In my world, women would say...."hey nice sword--is it new?" instead of "oh I love your shoes". In my world I would have a castle. In my world, I would shop at a store with a name like "Castle's R'Us" and there would be sales on Tapestries and all the essentials to keep your drawbridge from fundtioning properly. In my world, everyone would say things like m'lady, because I like that. In my world, one would be allowed to invade the neighboring cubicles or companies...wherever one may work and plunder for staplers and pens...and then maybe sign a peace treaty after one has agreed to make an offering. In my world, talking like a Pirate would be normal, and expected in certain situations and one could take one's vacations learning how to be a Pirate ending on a deserted Island with Captain Sparrow and a whole lot of Rum!!!

There's more in my world....but one must go back to the real world...where's my sword??