SC - Clean-up

[Mary Morman]

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael F. Gunter wrote:

> I do hope you appreciate what you have. That has never happened to me. I have
> usually spent the time cooking and then cleaning the hall until the wee hours
> of the morning. It's just pretty much become a fact of life around our shire.
> It didn't happen last 12th Night for a couple of reasons. The first is that I
> was told by my assistants that I WOULD NOT clean the kitchen so I was made to
> leave, also a certain knight owed me a favor and I called it. He sent a 
> particularly lovely squire out to gather up the rest of the Chivalry in attendance
> and they cleaned for me. I still felt guilty as hell for being so lazy. :-{)}
> 
Perhaps, my lord, you are still young and strong.  Now, I remember many
years in which I cooked all day and cleaned all night and went home
exhausted for the next 48 hours.  Now, however, in my age and experience I
have become NASTY.  I make it absolutely clear to autocrats that I will
sit, with my feet up, after the feast and direct the cleaning crew that
the autocrat provides, but that I will NOT do cleanup.  Perhaps this is
why they call me Evil Elaina?  Whatcha think?

More seriously though, I find that at 45 I no longer have the physical
stamina for the 15 hours of cooking AND cleaning that I used to have when
I cooked feasts 20 years ago.

Evil Elaina

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