Coffee Break Short Takes
Jan. 18th, 2010 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callistotoni-- Another 12th Night come and gone. Good art displays, *fantastic* play, working court was fun, and I always love getting to talk to people. Kinda stressful vibe for me personally, though.
-- Avenue Q was fabulous! If you get a chance to see this show you should do it. Favorite part = The Bad Idea Bears ;-)
-- Operation Move J/S South continues apace. We ordered a Pod instead of renting a U-Haul because it was the better deal on several levels. The Pod will arrive to get his stuff on Feb 2, I'll fly up Feb 4, the pod will be picked up Feb. 5, J/S and I (with J/S' poor about-to-be-traumitized kitty) will drive south on the 6-7th, and the Pod will arrive in Livermore on Feb 10. It will be good to have a couple of days to work on the house/garage before the pod arrives.
I was up there this last weekend in we made a dent in packing his stuff -- mostly SCA stuff and books. But, oh man I have *so* much work I have to do in Livermore to get ready for this. :-0
And moving is expensive :-( .
But, truely, J/S and I know at a cellular level that this is the right thing to do. We're better people together than we are apart. And being with him this weekend, well, I was just overwhelmed with the sense of us being together is The Right Thing.
-- Saw the "Sherlock Holmes" movie with J/S. Enjoyable enough if one just thinks of it as a steampunk action movie, rather than a movie based on the late 19th C and/or Doyle's character. One thing I found super irritating was the repeat of an action sequence *after* you'd already been through it in slo-mo as the R. Downey Jr. thought through it. And can there be a bad guy in a movie anymore without a black leather trench coat? Do they kick you out of the Bad Guy Union if you don't have one? (Hey, Guy Ritchie, haven't you ever heard of the Evil League of Evil? Keep up with the times, dude! ;-) )
-- Got some fabric from J/S's ex-s fabric stash, including some stuff I can make a gambason out of for J/S (copying his archeologically old one that he's been using). A new gambason is now do-able.
-- Money continues to be crazy tight. Having to take several days as no-pay because of being sick and travel over the last month and a bit was a blow.
-- Life (TM) has to take precedent these days, and the move and Brandee and work is filling up my time. But the SCA is a fun place for me and J/S, and I've got some SCA responsibilities. Finding a balance I think will be a daily exercise during 2010.
-- A Final "And now for something completely different"-Inter-Kingdom Anthropology moment:
J/S and I have these discussions about the SCA, the West, and An Tir, and I continue to find them personally eye-opening. In conversation he found out that in the West, the Principality Princes and Princes (as opposed to the Crown Heirs) do not attend peerage order meetings unless, of course, they are a member of those orders. They do in An Tir, which makes perfect sense given how spread out An Tir is. I told him that we don't do that in the West because we have no need to, because most of the West is so centralized that we don't need the Mists and Cynaguan P&P's at meetings because the Crown sees the same pool of people (not worded well -- sorry). But J/S thought that seemed kinda disrespectful -- the P&P are royalty, after all, and they have a responsibility to foster Arts and Service and Chivalry in Their Principalities, so why aren't they represented in the meetings. The fact that peers are offered the opportunity to swear fealty to the P&P re-inforces this, I dunno, sponsor/patron/lord relationship as well. So now I'm wondering, other than "That's not what we do in the West" is there a logical, systematic reason why the Pricipality royalty don't attend meetings? Just wondering, really; I trust we can all play nice while discussing this question. :-)
Back to work. Stay well, folks.
-- Avenue Q was fabulous! If you get a chance to see this show you should do it. Favorite part = The Bad Idea Bears ;-)
-- Operation Move J/S South continues apace. We ordered a Pod instead of renting a U-Haul because it was the better deal on several levels. The Pod will arrive to get his stuff on Feb 2, I'll fly up Feb 4, the pod will be picked up Feb. 5, J/S and I (with J/S' poor about-to-be-traumitized kitty) will drive south on the 6-7th, and the Pod will arrive in Livermore on Feb 10. It will be good to have a couple of days to work on the house/garage before the pod arrives.
I was up there this last weekend in we made a dent in packing his stuff -- mostly SCA stuff and books. But, oh man I have *so* much work I have to do in Livermore to get ready for this. :-0
And moving is expensive :-( .
But, truely, J/S and I know at a cellular level that this is the right thing to do. We're better people together than we are apart. And being with him this weekend, well, I was just overwhelmed with the sense of us being together is The Right Thing.
-- Saw the "Sherlock Holmes" movie with J/S. Enjoyable enough if one just thinks of it as a steampunk action movie, rather than a movie based on the late 19th C and/or Doyle's character. One thing I found super irritating was the repeat of an action sequence *after* you'd already been through it in slo-mo as the R. Downey Jr. thought through it. And can there be a bad guy in a movie anymore without a black leather trench coat? Do they kick you out of the Bad Guy Union if you don't have one? (Hey, Guy Ritchie, haven't you ever heard of the Evil League of Evil? Keep up with the times, dude! ;-) )
-- Got some fabric from J/S's ex-s fabric stash, including some stuff I can make a gambason out of for J/S (copying his archeologically old one that he's been using). A new gambason is now do-able.
-- Money continues to be crazy tight. Having to take several days as no-pay because of being sick and travel over the last month and a bit was a blow.
-- Life (TM) has to take precedent these days, and the move and Brandee and work is filling up my time. But the SCA is a fun place for me and J/S, and I've got some SCA responsibilities. Finding a balance I think will be a daily exercise during 2010.
-- A Final "And now for something completely different"-Inter-Kingdom Anthropology moment:
J/S and I have these discussions about the SCA, the West, and An Tir, and I continue to find them personally eye-opening. In conversation he found out that in the West, the Principality Princes and Princes (as opposed to the Crown Heirs) do not attend peerage order meetings unless, of course, they are a member of those orders. They do in An Tir, which makes perfect sense given how spread out An Tir is. I told him that we don't do that in the West because we have no need to, because most of the West is so centralized that we don't need the Mists and Cynaguan P&P's at meetings because the Crown sees the same pool of people (not worded well -- sorry). But J/S thought that seemed kinda disrespectful -- the P&P are royalty, after all, and they have a responsibility to foster Arts and Service and Chivalry in Their Principalities, so why aren't they represented in the meetings. The fact that peers are offered the opportunity to swear fealty to the P&P re-inforces this, I dunno, sponsor/patron/lord relationship as well. So now I'm wondering, other than "That's not what we do in the West" is there a logical, systematic reason why the Pricipality royalty don't attend meetings? Just wondering, really; I trust we can all play nice while discussing this question. :-)
Back to work. Stay well, folks.
