SC - food bashing

[Siegfried Heydrich]

M'lady Ari said,
>
>         Me, well, there's nothing I can do that equates to anything that I
>know in the here and now that I could get anything for.

No 'real world' equation is necessary. The wonderful thing about SCA is it 
gives you an excuse and a place to 'try on' skills you think you have no 
reason to attempt in regular life. Not all knights were ever modern 
soldiers.  Some bards don't have wonderful voices, but they have a love of 
performing and entertaining and enjoy the research and thought that goes 
into being a bard in the current middle ages.  Through much practice, their 
voices may be average at best, but they can still be a d*mned good bard.  I 
know scribes who could never be modern artists, but they manage well enough, 
while many scrolls are stunningly lovely and professional, many more 
perfectly adequate, and it's exciting to receive one either way.  I have one 
lovely one, and one clumsy one, and I'm equally proud of them. (and I do 
know that the clumsy one far exceeds the person's earlier attempts.  She may 
never get a lot better at it, but no matter, she does well enough, and 
because of her efforts, the Great ATlantian Scroll backlog has been 
decreased by a dozen scrols or so.  No small thing.)

So if you don't have a particular skill you are already proud of, and you 
don't intend to be a fighter, you can still serve the SCA by being an event 
reservationist, organizing servers, running a kitchen (period, we hope, if 
you are on this list), organizing events, learning to be a chirurgeion or 
mistress of the lists, be a herald, be an officer of your group, or many 
other supportive tasks.  Do these things because it's fun to do them and 
hang out with friends, and do these things because it's fun to help your 
friends have their fun.

Sooner or later, you may get the bird too.  But don't aim for that, because 
if you get to feeling you deserve it, you'll get resentful for being passed 
over.  That's not fun.

>* (sorry, I don't know if you are male
>or female.)
>
>          *Peers down very well endowed front, and chuckles*  Femals as of
>last check, my Lady.  :)
>
>         Arianne


I know an Ari that is not female, so I edited my post from 'Lord Ari" at the 
last minute!

Bonne
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