SCA @ UVa

Thjora is off to Jamestown for a training weekend, so I'm at home dogsitting and working on gear. While it just might get warm enough to fight, the ground will probably be too muddy. But we can do some slow work in the carport if anyone wants to.

Timm has said he'd like to finish his vambraces this weekend. Who else is interested?

We can probably arrange rides, but let's work it out with a little lead time.

I'm free all day Saturday and Sunday. Get in touch if you're interested!

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Thanks to Thjora, I now have a bodice pattern for my Elisabethan garb. Ideally this will be used for the dance component of KASF, but it's kinda questionable if it will all get done in time given school deadlines. Though in the end, I will eventually make the E garb one way or another.

(This is also a test for cross-posting to LJ) ;)

Cold cold cold. Then of course on Sunday it was much nicer.

Lazy-ass me never got around to fixing my second vambrace, so I couldn't do any polearm, even though there were two unbelted polemen standing around during pickups. At least I got to work with Tim from Marinus a bit, showing him some stances and techniques.

Great to see Armand, but the big doof didn't bring his gear so I didn't get to fight him. Some lame excuse about flying in kept him from bringing it.

Susanna was on site, but too sick to come to the field.

Thjora's back bothered her all weekend, keeping her from fighting.

Great to see Thorbrandr, though sad that he's now 90% certain to be moving to the Outlands.

Ragnar Ribcracker's two sword continues to improve. I fought him in pickups and must now remember not to just expect to hit his left leg whenever I want. I think every bruise I have is from him.

Wow it was cold, but the fellowship was warm.

This is one of many good pictures taken by Matthew Olney, aka Kennyth Pyke, that you can look at here.

Congratulations once again to my Brother Roland.

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We just finished Personas & Pizza night where we (11 students) ate pizza while Lord Gotfrid talked to us about heraldry, personas, and devices. With a mix of stories, examples, and documentation he explained how one might come up with a name, how to think about doing a persona, and answered questions.

I knew a little about how names were registered in the SCA but I definitely learned a lot more. For example, evidently I can have up to four names officially registered. Given that I don't even have one persona done yet, that is plenty. I had no clue about anything in the devices arena and now I understand some of the rules about color and symbols. Perhaps by this time next year I shall have a device. I know the general idea of what I want to do, but other things like finishing my Elisabethan garb in time for KASF are higher priority.

More than anything, Gotfrid was just fun to listen to and hear stories about German naming and the history thereof. Thanks again Gotfrid for talking to us.

Last night we had one of our normal practices and we were nicely balance. 6 women, 6 men, so we could do pretty much any dance we wanted. We did some English Country, a few Italian ones, and were generally social.

As always we went to the College Inn afterwards to get food. Evidently the group has been doing this for a VERY long time. The menu hadn't really changed in 16 years... but poof... last night it was different. They now have some flat screen TVs in there, a little mini-bar, and some new menu items. I still got my normal as always, but all of us noticed how different (yet the same) the place seemed.

Hey! I hope to be more active on the Isenfir Website.
It is almost 6 PM and we re almost done with our meeting.

I mentioned this idea at the dessert revel in December and got good feedback.

What do you think of these designs for club t-shirts? I still need to get the exact UVa colors, but these are close. Click for large versions.

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