NK - The Philosophical Aspects of Free Time

[Marc Carlson]

<Nathan W. Jones> wrote:
> *chuckle*  Oh please don't!  DAng, and I can't even claim not to be
> responsible.  (But for the record, I used Diary, not Dairy.  He
> came up with that improvement himself.  *grin*

Don't worry, Gio, *I* won't hold you responsible...  much.

Actually, after being called everything from "Dammit" to "Kermit", you
just tend to ignore the fact that NOBODY pronounces it "correctly"
(i.e., dJAIR-midh).

BTW, I hope everyone's having a good time at the Revel.  We were
literally walking out the door when my father called and asked to
"drop by" (I think this is the second time that's ever happened since
we moved here), so...


Marc/Diarmaid



> >This hits my quest to find a
> >name.  I do want something I will be able to spell and to even
> >answer to.  I think I am leaning more toward the Susan the _____
> >type, just so I will know it is me.  I am rather absentminded,
> >so that will help.  All we have come up
> >with thus far is Susan the Curious.
> 
> Susan the [fill in the blank] is a perfectly period naming practice, BTW.
> (the Heralds call it some funny name, but they still let us register
> them.)  The question is, what do fill in the blank with.
> 
> Here is my first question, and I apologize if you have mentioned it before,
> but I do have the attention span of a gnat at time.  How long
> have you been playing in the SCA?  My general rule is not to rush
> into giving yourself a name.  You might just want to be Susan of Northkeep
> for a while (months even) until you find a name that you just simply love
> and wouldn't mind being called for the rest of your SCA career...or until
> you decide to change it again.  But be warned, changing names is easier
> said than done.  The first time is somewhat easy, the later name changes
> harder.  (Unless you don't mind people always forgetting what your
> current name might be.)
> 
> So...take some time.
> 
> Also, consider the culture that you might want to be from.  If you
> were interested in Celtic, Norse, French, Italian, you might want to
> investigate what "Susan the [fill in the blank]" might sound like
> in those other languages.  Might be very pretty and something you'd like.
> 
> >If people have time, I would love stories of how you chose your names and
> >personas and which came first period or name.
> 
> Once upon a time when I was a clueless newbie, my friends decided that
> Nathan of Bjornsborg just wouldn't work anymore.  I'd been in for three-
> six-ish months.(Okay, I don't remember exactly how long I'd been playing,
> but it was betwenn three and six months)
> 
> So, my friend Mellisande decided that she was tired of her
> English/SCottish/Whatever personna and was going to turn Italian.  She
> had decided to call herself Dianora Lisabetta Vittoria di Cellini, and
> thought it would be a great thing if all her friends would turn Italian
> and be Late Period (because Bjornsorg was a horrid place filled with tons
> of Early Period Celts and Norsemen). *chuckle*
> 
> Not knowing any better, and not having any better ideas about a name or
> personna, I agreed to play along.  I still needed a first name though.
> So, I procrastinated, and procrastinated, and finally they nagged me
> again about it while we were grocery shopping for an event.  I just
> mouthed off, "Fine, just call me Giovanni Antonio...how's that?  I'll come
> up with something better later."
> 
> Well, later never came, and I decided that I really liked the clothes,
> history, and politics of Florence around 1380-1425.  And the name stuck.
> 
> And, because I followed the heraldic rule "if you don't use it, why
> register it", I dropped "Antonio" when I decided to register my name
> and arms.
> 
> And that's how it all began, lo those many years ago.  *sob*
> 
> Gio.
> 
> p.s.  Oh, and I wanted to be called Gianni, cus it sounds like "Jonny"
> if you say it fast with a Texas accent.  But that didn't happen either.
> Gio
> Northkeep
> Ansteorra