I’m really not up for much this weekend. I did see the “final” episode and I’m pissed that it’s left hanging like this (although it wasn’t the horrible cliffhanger I was afraid of) but after that it was like go-go-go until a few hours ago and now I’m ready to do a faceplant and snore until I have to get up for work tomorrow. I left my house Saturday at 9 AM and was on my feet from nearly 10 AM until 10:15 PM with the exception of a couple of quarter to half hour breaks to eat. And then I found out that I was supposed to receive an award from the King and Queen of An Tir, that I had been awarded it last month but having been absent at the event was supposed to receive it this month. But it was forgotten in the mad rush for all the nobles and stuff to get to the event (for those of you who have no freaking clue what I’m talking about, it’s all SCA stuff) so I have to wait yet another month and I just found out I don’t have to avoid the situation because they realize some of us have knee problems and an inability to kneel isn’t as embarrassing as I was afraid it would be. (I’m just ranting here and you can skip this without upsetting me…) But the King and Queen have two little boys, two year old twins, and the position of King and Queen requires them to be traveling and traveling and traveling for the six months of their reign so I can’t really fault them. And the Baron and Baroness, who were the ones who were supposed to remember the award, had just had duel panicky situations where he was suddenly gravely ill and she was sent out of town for work for two weeks. So I can’t fault them, either. (And I kind of adore them because they’re enormously cute and fun to be around…) So all I can do is whine. And as it’s kind of unseemly to whine to other Scadians, I’m whining to you.
I feel nominally better now. The event was fantastic, we even managed to get done an hour ahead of schedule, and I even made some new friends there. Aubrey, whose title I’m unsure of but she seems to be the Baroness’ aide-de-camp or somesuch, and I discussed doing a show on HGTV called “Decorating, SCA style.” And when one of the Vikings a table away from where I was standing pulled out his laptop and got online to show off pictures of his current project several of us joined in to discuss how this really IS “The Middle Ages the way they SHOULD have been, with flush toilets, antibiotics, and laptop computers with wifi cards.” One of the teenaged members wants help making her own garb and is offering to help me clean my house in exchange for that help. And the woman I took the spinning class from remembered me and made an effort to seat me at her table during my dinner break. Those of you who don’t know me well might not realize how astonishing this is for me. It’s like with this group; I have to remind myself every once in a while that there really are great people out there who like me. I must be a pretty good person if folks like Claire and Tango and Bridget (SCA) and Laurel and Arrowyn and Jacinda (SCA) and Danae and Prtfvr and Margaret and all of you and all of them (and don’t take it wrong if I didn’t name you; I’m actually going down a posting list from a while back and I picked out a bunch of names just in order) like me. So I send hugs to you all, and when I’m up and totally sane again I’ll send holiday love, too.
One of the women I was running myself ragged alongside had just come back from Orycon and she said there was absolutely NO “Blood Ties” presence there. So I must encourage all of you attending Megacon to MAKE OUR PRESENCE KNOWN! Had I realized no one would be representing anything to do with BT there, I’d have tried like hell to find a way to get to Orycon. Now I need to save my pennies for Confilkt .
On that note (pun, get it? filk–note? Bad pun. Sorry) I think I see a bed that misses me and a puppy who needs some cuddles and some time chasing a toy. Enjoy the macro and talk amongst yourselves. I’ll be back during the week.
