Friday Miscellania.

[arontius]

.....It was good to see The Beloved Tamm (TM) geek out with friends last night. With just Rhys and I at home, she needs to have the opportunity to have an ADULT CONVERSATION every now and then. And just for the record, I did not feel 'run off' by anyone. It looked like Tamm was having great fun and I did not want to interrupt. Besides, I answered e-mail and then promptly fell asleep. :-)

.....Off to a Pelican meeting tomorrow at Ursulmas. Hope that the snow stays to a minimum. I don't mind driving in it, just makes any commute that much longer. Plus, we'd really like Rhys to get some more 'kid time' with Nimue and family, and snow would put a real damper on that.

.....Is Mistress Khalja going to be at Ursulmas? I need to find out. She said that she might be able to fit my armor into her load of stuff going to Estrella. I have to talk to her about it and see what arrangements I have to get made, and how much it is going to cost. I'm getting excited though. Can't wait to go! :-)

.....Was putting on armor the other day and ran across a favor that Dame Ellen had made for me a while back. It was a really nice gesture and I certainly appreciated it. It was always a reminder that someone really always has cared about who I am and what I did. I asked The Beloved Tamm (TM) the other day if she would make me a favor to wear. I thought that maybe she would laugh or look at me as if wondering why I needed one. But she actually seemed happy to take it on as a new Project. Some people seem to have the opinion that 'favors' are not what 'serious' SCA players do. But, I don't agree. Maybe it is just a romantic idea on my part. But I like the symbolism involved. The chivalry and the reminder that you do not champion a cause or call forth a challenge just for yourself. Doing something for another like this makes you responsible for a little bit of their honour as well. Gives you a different, and more awesome, aspect of this game we are playing. Kinda gives you goosebumps if you think about it at all. :-)

.....Thinking of challenges, the following Saturday is Candlemas. Traditionally, that is when the call goes out for Sargeantry candidates. I haven't heard anything from Her Excellency Brighid, so I'm guessing that She is still mulling over the whole concept. I understand why She is unsure about how to progress, but I don't necessarily agree with all of Her reasoning (but it is O.K. for friends to disagree, right? :-)). I DO agree with Her that the whole concept has changed since its early days. But for my part, I relish the challenge of seeing whether or not I have the knowledge and skill-set to actually BE a member of the Sargeantry. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time. Not as any sort of 'peerage stepping stone', but for everything I would learn and experience in the process. If Her Excellency decides that She really doesn't want to take this on this year, maybe She wouldn't mind if I went to another for the challenge? I'll have to talk to Her about it.

.....Gotta run, looks like a busy Friday already. But it IS Friday! Yeah!!!

.....Arontius / Aaron.

Comments

[gwen-the-potter.livejournal.com]

Gosh, Arontius, I think you are challenging yourself pretty good this year. You're fighting at Estrella, right? How many years have you wanted to do that?

I don't know what HE's is thinking about in ref to Sergeantry, but I betcha that would be an interesting conversation. I have my own opinions, but since I'm not a landed Baroness, it does not really matter. It would still make a fun conversaiton. The Sergentry has changed, and...well, let's not get into that now.

As for favors, I luv them. I treasured the favor you gave me for my very first A & S competition so many years ago. It was very, very special, and meant a lot to me. All the favors I have received over the years do. An I make favors for R (or, at least one. He wears a strip of red and black card weaving that I made on his belt.) I need to make a nifty one if he makes it to Crown this year.

[gwen-the-potter.livejournal.com]

BTW, Arontius, did you get my message about Rafaella's stuff and bringing it to Ursalmas? I meant to ask you about it, but it slipped my mind.

[khalja.livejournal.com]

Heya. I will not be at Ursulmas, unfortunately. I'm taking an enameling class this weekend.

Oh, by the way, the title I use is Baroness. I'll use Companion in a pinch. *hugs*

[brighidross.livejournal.com]

Wow....the Sargentry....sigh....

[gwen-the-potter.livejournal.com]

One of these days, I'd like to hear you opinion on it. Really, just for fun.

[tsuruko-sensei.livejournal.com]

I'd love to talk to you about it. Yes, it sure has changed over the years.

Sargentry

[fear-the-cow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm still around. And I actually *have* most of the material associated with it. If you ever do decide to have a serious discussion about it, I'd love to weigh in - having been on both sides of the fence so to speak.

-Jacques

Re: Sargentry

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for those discussions... I've always been fascinated by the Searjeantry.

Re: Sargentry

[fear-the-cow.livejournal.com]

"I've always been fascinated by the Searjeantry"

Well, I'm sure that's all because of *me*. :)

Seriously though, it is really a matter of the group. It is different things in dirrerent baronies, and difeerent things in the same barony depending on who is running things.

A lot of it is up to the powers that be, but at the same time, you have to have a group of individuals who are willing to make it be that way as welll.

Sargentry has been a pretty quiet subject in DL for a while as far as I know. I'd love to see it take off and be what it was (in terms of numbers) when I was still a Gallant. But that is up to TE and the remaining sargentry.

[tsuruko-sensei.livejournal.com]

About favors - the SCA has changed a LOT over the many years I've been in, with the move toward being more accurate and authentic among them. I'm all for being as 'period' as possible but people forget that we're also a community with it's own traditions. One of them is favors. I like that tradition and I think it adds to our SCA experience. I've given and received a few in my time and I'll continue to do so because it's very meaningful to me and to the recipients. Besides, there are WORSE things we could be doing ...

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Do we even _have_ a Serjeantry?

[parlor-games.livejournal.com]

My husband wears a favor. You should ask him if you can take a gander at it.

:)

I think it is really silly when people wear every favor they have ever been giving, such that they look like an extra from the Pat Benatar "Love is a Battlefield" video. Thorin wears the favors of the ladies he knows will be present at an event.