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aliskyeJeez it's been a totally f*cked up day! I was supposed to spend most of the day working on this Rights clearanc especial project (which has a deadline of next week!) and I spent almost the entire day putting out little fires. I need to teach the crews I work with to not bug me immediately after a research report from an outside company comes in, cuz, you know! I just might need a little time to look it over and I *might* actually be dealing with a previous crisis!
TGIF but I'm taking a script home to read and work on over the weekend.
I've decided that I can't wait any longer to find my missing shift pattern. I'm going to take about an old shift and make that into a pattern. (The old shift is really a shirt, I like them longer now, with (not great) blackwork on the sleeves but it's out of some fabric that must have a high poly content that I would never use now.) I know the pattern isn't a period one, but if I make the shift out of linen at least part of it will be right. I finished some (not great) blackwork to go on the collar and cuffs.
So weekend plans are:
Start a new shift.
Finish the layout on a really simple scroll
Write an article for the Tydes
Work on my chair
Read a script
Write the memo on the script.
Clean my work inbox.
Relax. :)
TGIF but I'm taking a script home to read and work on over the weekend.
I've decided that I can't wait any longer to find my missing shift pattern. I'm going to take about an old shift and make that into a pattern. (The old shift is really a shirt, I like them longer now, with (not great) blackwork on the sleeves but it's out of some fabric that must have a high poly content that I would never use now.) I know the pattern isn't a period one, but if I make the shift out of linen at least part of it will be right. I finished some (not great) blackwork to go on the collar and cuffs.
So weekend plans are:
Start a new shift.
Finish the layout on a really simple scroll
Write an article for the Tydes
Work on my chair
Read a script
Write the memo on the script.
Clean my work inbox.
Relax. :)
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Date: 2007-08-25 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-25 05:14 pm (UTC)I don't tend to play politics and frequently have a "head in the sand" general policy about it. In one respect that isn't good, but I can go to events and enjoy them and mostly be friends with everyone.
Most of my enthusiasm is from having all my friends in the SCA and having a huge string of unfinished projects that are mostly all SCA related. There have been years where I wasn't as interested and barely made it to more that 3-4 events a year, but I keep coming back to these things I really want to do or finish. I want to really study the Elizabethan era, I want to finish my sweetbag, learn card weaving, learn to do really good scrolls and teach people to do scrolls. I'd like to make some Elizabethan style jewelry and do more pewter casting. I want to try knitting again and make a pair of socks and a hat. I want to test myself by entering Pentathlon and learn to write a sonnet.
I guess it doesn't require the SCA to do most of that, but most of my friends are in the SCA and they are such a fascinating bunch of people. I'd really miss them if I totally dropped out or stopped going to events. As I get older in the SCA, the number of the old guard gets smaller and I realize that many of these are the people I have a long history with. And as the SCA gets older, new people join with new interests and new enthusiasm and that keeps me going too.
I don't ever want to be the snarky old-timer who just has knee-jerk reactions to everything that isn't how we did it in the olden days. Everything needs to be looked at with fresh eyes. We have beautiful old traditions that can be maintained while still opening the door and welcoming new ideas and new ways. We just have to be open to them.
Wow....that got longer and more far afield then I planned. :)