Obligatory Post-Festival Post
Yep, turned up on the Saturday and stayed overnight, leaving around lunch on Sunday. At least it felt like lunch, buggered if I know.
Saw a whole stack of people, most I haven't seen in 3+ years, so that was nice and I got to spend some good quality time with people who were quite lovely to be with. I think I may well have offended the Royalty when I forgot my manners as I was being introduced to them (3 years away and I manage "Hi..." what sort of Peer am I?).
I did manage, however, to lose my voice along the way, so I kind of wish I'd thought of including a fact sheet:
Yes, it's nice to be here/home.
I'm ok
He's ok
She's ok
She's ok
He's ok
China was wacky, US is next
Plaster comes off end of June
We will join Mr C sometime around end of July.
Because as much as I love talking about myself (just ask me), I really like to talk about everyone else and see what everyone else is doing too. But by the time I'd get through my spiel, someone else would come along and the person I was originally talking to would just get bored and politely kind of just slip away...
Sigh...
Was really lovely to camp with Hrothers and Ava and the nice people of Abbotsford, who really have their act together. It was a joy to see and great to have the reminder that sometimes, the SCA is really quite cool with what clever people can achieve.
On the whole, it was nice to be there, but at the same time, it was also quite weird. Do I fit in there anymore? Can I relate to people the way I used to? Most people don't get why we're doing what we do. "Surely family comes first!" They would exclaim. Yes it does, and that's why we are doing what we are doing. Sure, it sucks right now that we're not all in the same country, but it is not forever and then we'll be back on track again. Others couldn't understand why on earth Mr C might want to advance his career prospects by spending time offshore and they didn't hold back giving me their opinion. I have come to the conclusion that they can have an opinion and that's lovely for them, I hope it makes them feel better (condescending bitch that I am). I guess I am feeling slightly reverse culture shocked? I dunno. It's not a pleasant feeling, that's for sure.
I did find in the very short amount of time that I had there, that I am infact a lot less tolerant. Of people who can't play nicely. Of people talking shit, very intelligently and with much authority. And people in mundane garb wondering through the site? Pop a tunic on, chaps!
But apart from that, it was nice. It might have been nicer if I could have spent some more time there, doing something useful. But then again, reading all the commentary on the post-festival washing, maybe I'm glad I didn't...
Ah well, back to the grind...
Saw a whole stack of people, most I haven't seen in 3+ years, so that was nice and I got to spend some good quality time with people who were quite lovely to be with. I think I may well have offended the Royalty when I forgot my manners as I was being introduced to them (3 years away and I manage "Hi..." what sort of Peer am I?).
I did manage, however, to lose my voice along the way, so I kind of wish I'd thought of including a fact sheet:
Yes, it's nice to be here/home.
I'm ok
He's ok
She's ok
She's ok
He's ok
China was wacky, US is next
Plaster comes off end of June
We will join Mr C sometime around end of July.
Because as much as I love talking about myself (just ask me), I really like to talk about everyone else and see what everyone else is doing too. But by the time I'd get through my spiel, someone else would come along and the person I was originally talking to would just get bored and politely kind of just slip away...
Sigh...
Was really lovely to camp with Hrothers and Ava and the nice people of Abbotsford, who really have their act together. It was a joy to see and great to have the reminder that sometimes, the SCA is really quite cool with what clever people can achieve.
On the whole, it was nice to be there, but at the same time, it was also quite weird. Do I fit in there anymore? Can I relate to people the way I used to? Most people don't get why we're doing what we do. "Surely family comes first!" They would exclaim. Yes it does, and that's why we are doing what we are doing. Sure, it sucks right now that we're not all in the same country, but it is not forever and then we'll be back on track again. Others couldn't understand why on earth Mr C might want to advance his career prospects by spending time offshore and they didn't hold back giving me their opinion. I have come to the conclusion that they can have an opinion and that's lovely for them, I hope it makes them feel better (condescending bitch that I am). I guess I am feeling slightly reverse culture shocked? I dunno. It's not a pleasant feeling, that's for sure.
I did find in the very short amount of time that I had there, that I am infact a lot less tolerant. Of people who can't play nicely. Of people talking shit, very intelligently and with much authority. And people in mundane garb wondering through the site? Pop a tunic on, chaps!
But apart from that, it was nice. It might have been nicer if I could have spent some more time there, doing something useful. But then again, reading all the commentary on the post-festival washing, maybe I'm glad I didn't...
Ah well, back to the grind...