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juldeaSo let me see... I guess I need to write about the SCA event and what has happened since then.
Well, on Friday night I was up until 5-6am finishing my dress. This was interesting because I had to be awake at 8:30, and I had already been shorting myself on sleep all week. I was able to get up, but decided I wanted to actually have caffeine. I don't have much caffeine these days. So Jim and I stopped at a Dunkin' Donuts on the way to MIT (where the event was held - the MIT student center) and I got a latte. However, the latte was too hot to drink. I set it in the cup holder to cool while we drove. We arrived late - classes started at 11, and we pulled up with a walk to get to the center at 10:55. A few hundred yards away from the car I remembered my latte, but I preferred being on time to being caffeinated and decided to leave it in the car.
I got lots of compliments on my dress, and even a girl who wanted to take a picture of me :) Yay!
I went to several classes. "SCA 101", where I learned about the organization of the group and how people become Barons and Kings and such, and what awards people get to make them nobles, etc etc. And how to address such people. Then I went to "Introduction to Heraldry" and learned a lot of neat things about making a coat of arms. Then "Developing a Persona", where someone who won a award for staying in persona talked about how to do so without being stupid about it (i.e. how to make yourself sound like a real person).
After that was my most anticipated class, "Intro to Music in the SCA," which happily was filled with people I recognized. Except for the teacher, but I had heard of her. One of the people in the class was Troy, aka Uldarich, the leader of the Waytes (the medieval dance band) and someone I had seen often at dance practices and got along well with. Y'know, received backrubs from and such. After the music class the instructor (Tibicen), Troy, and I sat down and talked about what instruments I could and couldn't play that worked in that time period (pre 1600 - french horn and keyed flutes don't count). A trombone does work, and I've played that before, so Troy offered to lend me his if I'd come to Waytes practice on Monday (i.e., tonight). I heartily agreed. :)
Finally there were a couple hours of dance classes which covered a lot of the dances we do at dance class, and some new ones. I was able to be a person that KNEW DANCES! Yay. I like dancing.
Then there was a dinner break. It was 5:30pm-ish, and the ball started at 7. Most people got food from the little grocery store downstairs in the student center. Part of my meal was a 20oz. Dr. Pepper. Troy got a packaged sushi meal that included a small cup of wasabi. I took that from him, examined it for a minute, and dropped a bit of wasabi into my Dr. Pepper. It bubbled and fizzed and looked mighty scary. Then I drank it, and couldn't taste it at all. So I put more wasabi in. I ended up putting more wasabi in my DP than I know I can handle, so I assume the fizzing was some type of reaction that took away the spiciness of the wasabi. However, everyone else thought I was pretty crazy, which was fine by me. ;)
The ball was awesome. It was like a dance practice with everyone dressed correctly and the Waytes playing instead of tapes and CDs. I knew enough people to always have a dance partner, and many of them were men I enjoyed flirting with while dancing. However, I must've been a bit overboard because one of them felt the need to tell me afterwards that he was a happily married man.... in a fully open relationship. However, I was only flirting with him for flirting's sake and told him so.
After the ball there was a post-revel at Wadsworth House. This is a large Happiness Hotel-style house where at least six SCA people live (one of them being Troy. Laugh, I'm mentioning him a lot...). It's the kind of place where the door is never locked. There are multiple couches in the living room made for people to drape themselves over. I spent a large part of the time with one man on each side of me massaging my neck, back, or hands, and one man in front of me massaging my feet. I'm an attention whore and they love it. ;) Oh, and another part of the time was lying across the laps of Jen, her boyfriend Matt, and another guy Aaron. Aaron is a lot of fun. He tickled me lots and played with my bellybutton ring. Heh.
I really like these people. I am able to act like I want to act - totally attention-crazy and flirtatious - and people understand and deal with that and don't think I'm crazy or annoying. There are men who will feed it right back to me just for the fun of it. People are in open relationships all over the place - polyamorous is the default setting. They can have a great time without having to drink, but they don't shun alcohol as an evil either. It's just all-around good.
So tonight, I went to Waytes practice. I took the trombone (Troy had lent it to me that night at the post-revel) on the T to MIT in rush-hour. That was fun. :P Since it was the first practice after a show AND it was a holiday, there were only 3 other people there besides me - Troy, Linus (fiddle player), and Tom (drum/recorder player). Troy plays the lute, trombone, cornetino, and probably lots of other instruments he didn't pull out today because he mainly stayed on trombone to help me gain my ground. Which went very well. After a bit I was getting through full songs :) I'm very sad that the french horn is a post-1600 instrument and therefore not valid to use. So is Linus, he really wants the horn in there for sound. But the next idea is for Troy to buy a cornetto for me to use aside his cornetino. :)
After Waytes practice is Quire practice.... say it aloud, Quire... choir. I stayed for that because I like the people and singing is fun. There were also few people there. They were really happy to have me because I can sing alto and they didn't have an alto. Yay, me! However my sight reading skills are lame at the moment and I often messed up. I'll get better.
After practice it's normal for the people involved to go to Cinderella's, a close-by Italian place, for dinner. Troy, Linus, and I went. We had yummy food and talked a lot about music. Eventually Linus left and Troy and I decided we wanted to continue the evening together, so we walked down the street to a restaurant/club/bar called The Middle East, where there was an aud player soloing (aud = middle eastern stringed instrument). We had drinks and talked and listened to the aud player. Eventually the place had to close, so we then went to Wadsworth House and played around on the computer for a while. Then it was too late to take the subway home, so Troy drove me home.
Well, on Friday night I was up until 5-6am finishing my dress. This was interesting because I had to be awake at 8:30, and I had already been shorting myself on sleep all week. I was able to get up, but decided I wanted to actually have caffeine. I don't have much caffeine these days. So Jim and I stopped at a Dunkin' Donuts on the way to MIT (where the event was held - the MIT student center) and I got a latte. However, the latte was too hot to drink. I set it in the cup holder to cool while we drove. We arrived late - classes started at 11, and we pulled up with a walk to get to the center at 10:55. A few hundred yards away from the car I remembered my latte, but I preferred being on time to being caffeinated and decided to leave it in the car.
I got lots of compliments on my dress, and even a girl who wanted to take a picture of me :) Yay!
I went to several classes. "SCA 101", where I learned about the organization of the group and how people become Barons and Kings and such, and what awards people get to make them nobles, etc etc. And how to address such people. Then I went to "Introduction to Heraldry" and learned a lot of neat things about making a coat of arms. Then "Developing a Persona", where someone who won a award for staying in persona talked about how to do so without being stupid about it (i.e. how to make yourself sound like a real person).
After that was my most anticipated class, "Intro to Music in the SCA," which happily was filled with people I recognized. Except for the teacher, but I had heard of her. One of the people in the class was Troy, aka Uldarich, the leader of the Waytes (the medieval dance band) and someone I had seen often at dance practices and got along well with. Y'know, received backrubs from and such. After the music class the instructor (Tibicen), Troy, and I sat down and talked about what instruments I could and couldn't play that worked in that time period (pre 1600 - french horn and keyed flutes don't count). A trombone does work, and I've played that before, so Troy offered to lend me his if I'd come to Waytes practice on Monday (i.e., tonight). I heartily agreed. :)
Finally there were a couple hours of dance classes which covered a lot of the dances we do at dance class, and some new ones. I was able to be a person that KNEW DANCES! Yay. I like dancing.
Then there was a dinner break. It was 5:30pm-ish, and the ball started at 7. Most people got food from the little grocery store downstairs in the student center. Part of my meal was a 20oz. Dr. Pepper. Troy got a packaged sushi meal that included a small cup of wasabi. I took that from him, examined it for a minute, and dropped a bit of wasabi into my Dr. Pepper. It bubbled and fizzed and looked mighty scary. Then I drank it, and couldn't taste it at all. So I put more wasabi in. I ended up putting more wasabi in my DP than I know I can handle, so I assume the fizzing was some type of reaction that took away the spiciness of the wasabi. However, everyone else thought I was pretty crazy, which was fine by me. ;)
The ball was awesome. It was like a dance practice with everyone dressed correctly and the Waytes playing instead of tapes and CDs. I knew enough people to always have a dance partner, and many of them were men I enjoyed flirting with while dancing. However, I must've been a bit overboard because one of them felt the need to tell me afterwards that he was a happily married man.... in a fully open relationship. However, I was only flirting with him for flirting's sake and told him so.
After the ball there was a post-revel at Wadsworth House. This is a large Happiness Hotel-style house where at least six SCA people live (one of them being Troy. Laugh, I'm mentioning him a lot...). It's the kind of place where the door is never locked. There are multiple couches in the living room made for people to drape themselves over. I spent a large part of the time with one man on each side of me massaging my neck, back, or hands, and one man in front of me massaging my feet. I'm an attention whore and they love it. ;) Oh, and another part of the time was lying across the laps of Jen, her boyfriend Matt, and another guy Aaron. Aaron is a lot of fun. He tickled me lots and played with my bellybutton ring. Heh.
I really like these people. I am able to act like I want to act - totally attention-crazy and flirtatious - and people understand and deal with that and don't think I'm crazy or annoying. There are men who will feed it right back to me just for the fun of it. People are in open relationships all over the place - polyamorous is the default setting. They can have a great time without having to drink, but they don't shun alcohol as an evil either. It's just all-around good.
So tonight, I went to Waytes practice. I took the trombone (Troy had lent it to me that night at the post-revel) on the T to MIT in rush-hour. That was fun. :P Since it was the first practice after a show AND it was a holiday, there were only 3 other people there besides me - Troy, Linus (fiddle player), and Tom (drum/recorder player). Troy plays the lute, trombone, cornetino, and probably lots of other instruments he didn't pull out today because he mainly stayed on trombone to help me gain my ground. Which went very well. After a bit I was getting through full songs :) I'm very sad that the french horn is a post-1600 instrument and therefore not valid to use. So is Linus, he really wants the horn in there for sound. But the next idea is for Troy to buy a cornetto for me to use aside his cornetino. :)
After Waytes practice is Quire practice.... say it aloud, Quire... choir. I stayed for that because I like the people and singing is fun. There were also few people there. They were really happy to have me because I can sing alto and they didn't have an alto. Yay, me! However my sight reading skills are lame at the moment and I often messed up. I'll get better.
After practice it's normal for the people involved to go to Cinderella's, a close-by Italian place, for dinner. Troy, Linus, and I went. We had yummy food and talked a lot about music. Eventually Linus left and Troy and I decided we wanted to continue the evening together, so we walked down the street to a restaurant/club/bar called The Middle East, where there was an aud player soloing (aud = middle eastern stringed instrument). We had drinks and talked and listened to the aud player. Eventually the place had to close, so we then went to Wadsworth House and played around on the computer for a while. Then it was too late to take the subway home, so Troy drove me home.
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on 14 Oct 2003 04:09 (UTC)no subject
on 14 Oct 2003 10:09 (UTC)And from what I've been told, it's possible that there are more polybis (polysexual bisexual) in Carolingia (the Greater-Boston SCA Barony) than in other places, but they do exist everywhere.
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on 14 Oct 2003 18:29 (UTC)I wish I were closer to Boston so I could come check things out.
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on 14 Oct 2003 20:30 (UTC)To quote:
The Palatine Barony of the Far West includes Japan, South Korea, Guam, Diego Garcia, the Philipines, Singapore and the British Indian Ocean Territory. The Barony is under the rule of the Kingdom of the West, which includes Northern California, Nevada, Alaska, and the Pacific Rim. All 17 kingdoms in the Knowne World (world wide) are guided by SCA, Inc.
Of course, there's no guarantee the people are the same everywhere.
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on 17 Oct 2003 09:36 (UTC)To be strictly honest, this varies a lot from branch to branch, and time to time. Carolingia didn't used to be nearly as kid-friendly -- even when I started, very few parents were managing to stay active, and children at events were fairly rare. But as the population's gotten a bit older, the number of parents has come to balance the number of college students, and folks have gotten used to the idea of kids at events...
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on 14 Oct 2003 20:25 (UTC)no subject
on 17 Oct 2003 09:33 (UTC)Well, you were on *my* lap for some of it (at least, your legs were). But lap rights are included with marriage...
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on 14 Oct 2003 10:10 (UTC)Oh my. That's almost sniffly. *sniff*
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on 17 Oct 2003 09:31 (UTC)That's
I was able to be a person that KNEW DANCES!
Yaas, and thank you for attending. It made the class much easier to teach, knowing that I had a bunch of ringers with a clue in it, helping show the total novices what it's supposed to look like...
[Wasabi in Dr. Pepper] However, everyone else thought I was pretty crazy
Well, I don't know about "crazy". "Excessively adventurous", perhaps. Well, okay, maybe "crazy". It was very entertaining to watch, though...
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on 17 Oct 2003 19:52 (UTC)So you (and others at the post-revel) told me, so I posted, and slowly you're coming out of the woodwork so I can find you :)
[dance stuff]
I am just a smidgen away from coming to Academia (sp?). Then I could be coming to MIT three nights a week! The only thing holding me back is the fear that filling up my schedule with all of this fun stuff will hinder me from getting a job like I need to do... or that I'll get into something that I won't be able to continue once I get a job.
excessivly adventurous ... crazy ... very entertaining
I try, I really do. :)