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Of Beowulf
So as I have said before and make no secret of I'm in the SCA. Specifically I'm an itty bitty baby bard in the SCA. Well next month is Eastern King and Queen's Bardic championships and my laurel (current queen's bard) and his apprentice sister (current king's bard) have told me I'm competing. No amount of vague panic and threats of heart attacks will dissuade them from making me, ya know, work for my apprentice belt.
In March my Farmstead is doing Beowulf: The Event. Its a full immersion 10th century Anglo-Saxon event. To do this we are doing everything period down to the decorations in the hall (bardic aunt's husband is a theater tech guy, we got this down to an art) and period Saxon trundle tables (One of the dear friends of our farmstead is former East arts and science champion for carpentry). The whole point of this event is to have some really really awesome bards recite Beowulf in its entirety over the course of the afternoon and evening.
How are these two related? Well somehow someone decided I should have a part in Beowulf. Not a behind the scenes painting and assembling part, no a 60 line section of poem to preform. Since I'm more concerned with getting it right for the event in March I'm using King and Queen's as a dry run for it. I'm going in with it memorized how I want to preform it and going to see how well it does in front of an audience and what I need to tweak. No I do NOT want to even get to the third round in King and Queen's let alone win the dratted thing. My boyfriend fights for the Midrealm. Somehow the idea of a royal bard sleeping with the enemy sounds like a poor plan.
Of Firefly
So I have The Boy and I have Kilt Boy. These are two different people who know each other like each other and don't mind the other is having fun with me too. Kilt Boy doesn't have a scarf. I'm a knitter. He waited until the coldest day we've had this winter to tell me this. He has a Jayne hat. I have yarn that matches said Jayne hat. I have a knitting pattern that involves simple viking knot cables.
I am knitting him a scarf of shame of Jayne hat colors out of red heart, with celtic knot work to make him think I put more effort into it than I did. This way he'll wear it. I feel this is just punishment for not telling your knitter that you needed something until much too late for it to be optimally effective.
Of Beowulf
So as I have said before and make no secret of I'm in the SCA. Specifically I'm an itty bitty baby bard in the SCA. Well next month is Eastern King and Queen's Bardic championships and my laurel (current queen's bard) and his apprentice sister (current king's bard) have told me I'm competing. No amount of vague panic and threats of heart attacks will dissuade them from making me, ya know, work for my apprentice belt.
In March my Farmstead is doing Beowulf: The Event. Its a full immersion 10th century Anglo-Saxon event. To do this we are doing everything period down to the decorations in the hall (bardic aunt's husband is a theater tech guy, we got this down to an art) and period Saxon trundle tables (One of the dear friends of our farmstead is former East arts and science champion for carpentry). The whole point of this event is to have some really really awesome bards recite Beowulf in its entirety over the course of the afternoon and evening.
How are these two related? Well somehow someone decided I should have a part in Beowulf. Not a behind the scenes painting and assembling part, no a 60 line section of poem to preform. Since I'm more concerned with getting it right for the event in March I'm using King and Queen's as a dry run for it. I'm going in with it memorized how I want to preform it and going to see how well it does in front of an audience and what I need to tweak. No I do NOT want to even get to the third round in King and Queen's let alone win the dratted thing. My boyfriend fights for the Midrealm. Somehow the idea of a royal bard sleeping with the enemy sounds like a poor plan.
Of Firefly
So I have The Boy and I have Kilt Boy. These are two different people who know each other like each other and don't mind the other is having fun with me too. Kilt Boy doesn't have a scarf. I'm a knitter. He waited until the coldest day we've had this winter to tell me this. He has a Jayne hat. I have yarn that matches said Jayne hat. I have a knitting pattern that involves simple viking knot cables.
I am knitting him a scarf of shame of Jayne hat colors out of red heart, with celtic knot work to make him think I put more effort into it than I did. This way he'll wear it. I feel this is just punishment for not telling your knitter that you needed something until much too late for it to be optimally effective.
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