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Collegium Report
May. 21st, 2007 03:53 pmFor the sake of simplicity I'm going to break my weekend report into 2 parts. First off, Collegium!
For starters, I got to spend time with Matt and Crystal. We started off with C. picking me up from work and going to a lovely (if noisy) tapas place in Mt. View. Much good food was eaten, including these proscutto-wrapped dates stuffed with cheese that were served warm. :-) At dinner we bagan discussing a topic that dominated all of our conversations, namely, the Perfectly Period Feast that C&M are planning for next year's Spring Collegium. Time frame will be 1430-1470 England. C&M have been researching not just food but table settings and *how* feasts were served. This will be very cool, folks, pen this in on your calanders.
We got to our hotel room and into bed by 11 PM, and then it was an early start to get breakfast and to Collegium to help out. I had a nice time chatting with folks at the info table, and then spent much of my day bugging ermine_rat and aastg to help me with my calligraphy. Ermine_rat was very generous with his time and walked me through some stuff that I just did not know, and even lent me a much better pen holder than the one I'd been trying to use. He also showed me a book that I ordered as soon as I got home: Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters, by Felix Pryor. It wasn't meant to be a calligraphy book but since it has a bunch of good photos of Elizabeth's correspondence it functionally is (especially for me, who wants ultimately to be able to write letters). And aastg sat with me as well and really helped with my "a" letter groups, since how the book told you how to do it didn't really work. Silly chattage with Beorn (of Hilliary and Beorn) was an added bonus.
Got to take barone_antonio's Castiglione for Fighter's class. Very much enjoyed it. Folks, if our Good Baron is ever teaching a class, *take it*! He is such a good speaker, truely. It was also good to see that those attending were thinking in terms of how The Book of the Courtier can relate to their SCA experiance. One of those classes were people (including me) stuck around and continued talking after the class. Bonus: aastg and I got to talk to Ximon after class and tell him about A Man for All Seasons, which he had never seen or read.
On to the feast: It was fantabulous! Ldyanna (Anna Serra) should be hurting herself patting herself on the back for this, as should madbaker. Loved the sugarpaste majoilica plates, and how she echoed the sugarpast garden scene by putting up flower trelleses around the feast tables. :-) Much good chattage with baron_antonio, Matt and Crystal. Then M&C and I had to leave early to get home, since once in the south bay I still had to drive home to Livermore. Coffee was consumed before leaving Sacremento. It helped a lot.
Overall a very nice experiance. Many Congrats to bonacorsi for pulling off a Fine Collegium Indeed.
For starters, I got to spend time with Matt and Crystal. We started off with C. picking me up from work and going to a lovely (if noisy) tapas place in Mt. View. Much good food was eaten, including these proscutto-wrapped dates stuffed with cheese that were served warm. :-) At dinner we bagan discussing a topic that dominated all of our conversations, namely, the Perfectly Period Feast that C&M are planning for next year's Spring Collegium. Time frame will be 1430-1470 England. C&M have been researching not just food but table settings and *how* feasts were served. This will be very cool, folks, pen this in on your calanders.
We got to our hotel room and into bed by 11 PM, and then it was an early start to get breakfast and to Collegium to help out. I had a nice time chatting with folks at the info table, and then spent much of my day bugging ermine_rat and aastg to help me with my calligraphy. Ermine_rat was very generous with his time and walked me through some stuff that I just did not know, and even lent me a much better pen holder than the one I'd been trying to use. He also showed me a book that I ordered as soon as I got home: Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters, by Felix Pryor. It wasn't meant to be a calligraphy book but since it has a bunch of good photos of Elizabeth's correspondence it functionally is (especially for me, who wants ultimately to be able to write letters). And aastg sat with me as well and really helped with my "a" letter groups, since how the book told you how to do it didn't really work. Silly chattage with Beorn (of Hilliary and Beorn) was an added bonus.
Got to take barone_antonio's Castiglione for Fighter's class. Very much enjoyed it. Folks, if our Good Baron is ever teaching a class, *take it*! He is such a good speaker, truely. It was also good to see that those attending were thinking in terms of how The Book of the Courtier can relate to their SCA experiance. One of those classes were people (including me) stuck around and continued talking after the class. Bonus: aastg and I got to talk to Ximon after class and tell him about A Man for All Seasons, which he had never seen or read.
On to the feast: It was fantabulous! Ldyanna (Anna Serra) should be hurting herself patting herself on the back for this, as should madbaker. Loved the sugarpaste majoilica plates, and how she echoed the sugarpast garden scene by putting up flower trelleses around the feast tables. :-) Much good chattage with baron_antonio, Matt and Crystal. Then M&C and I had to leave early to get home, since once in the south bay I still had to drive home to Livermore. Coffee was consumed before leaving Sacremento. It helped a lot.
Overall a very nice experiance. Many Congrats to bonacorsi for pulling off a Fine Collegium Indeed.
