JSw, I have friends who just got back from Pennsic. Obviously, it's a HUGE event, and I also have no idea what group (clan? family?) they're a part of, but I think maybe my friends did something organize-y this year, like with the money/treasury. Maybe.

t edit I'm not expecting you to know them -- that's like finding out someone goes to NYU and asking "Oh, do you know so-and-so?" -- but I just felt like mentioning it. Basically, just sucking up bandwidth.

I KICK IN THE DOOR!

You find a Plutonium Dragon. He is quickly made Ancient and Enraged.

It's not looking good for Team Aims.

GWB is on tv right now with Clinton and GB.

Personally, Steph, I am using you as my doctor, and then when I go to a real one, I get to laugh and tell them "my other doctor SUCKS".

ION, I just got "caught" by my boss looking at my personal email. (2 seconds earlier, and it would have been LJ). Luckily she laughed and agreed that this place is deader than dead this week.

Nicole, insent a little while ago to your AOL account.

Cindy, I'm quickly learning this. Plus, only my second day on it and for some reason it's giving me nasty headaches. Ick.

Make sure you drink a lot of water with it. That probably has nothing to do with the headache, but still...

Scott's been going without cereal (he's very much a cereal for breakfast man) every morning, because you have to wait a few hours before and after taking it, to have dairy. He's got to be on it for three weeks at least, to treat the Lyme Disease infection. The other night, we got subs for supper. He got a Chicken Parmesean sub, and never thought about the cheese. When he went to get cookies and milk, and I said something about not wanting to have the dairy with it, because he would have to take his pill, soon. He said, "Oh, no. I took it right after supper."

I said, "And what'd you have for supper, again?"

We were on vacation (at the beach) when he first went on it, so we had to avoid the sun. Even putting SPF 45 on him, every hour or so, when we went to the beach, after 2:00pm, he got a little color. Then we were looking at the ingredients in the sunscreen, and wondering if the magnesium and salicylates in those were also going to cause an absorption problem. Ugh.

JSw, I have friends who just got back from Pennsic. Obviously, it's a HUGE event, and I also have no idea what group (clan? family?) they're a part of, but I think maybe my friends did something organize-y this year, like with the money/treasury. Maybe.

Cincinnati is the Barony of the Fenix (alarming I still know this stuff by heart when Ontario left the Midrealm 8 years ago), but your friends could be part of one of many different types of sub-organizations (SCA structure and culture is multi-faceted, for sure). Like you say, Tep, Pennsic is a big beast and volunteer work there is vital to the success of the event. Props to your friends for taking up some of that mantle.

It comes with a shiny coronet and you have to attend no additional meetings or take up any new responsibilities.

That is the best rank ever!! Shinies and no responsibilities. That rocks!

fall of Rome until 1600

I was wondering because I saw a lot of women sans corset. As a civil war reenactor, that sets me on my teeth. The women dressed as pre-1500-ish wouldn't wear one.

Make sure you drink a lot of water with it.

This. I hate this part. Why, you ask? Because I took a dose last night at 9pm and *then* remembered I had to drink a gallon (not really - but it feels like it) of water with it. Guess who was up peeing all night? You know you were curious about my evening activities.

Drugs are difficult.

Personally, Steph, I am using you as my doctor, and then when I go to a real one, I get to laugh and tell them "my other doctor SUCKS".

Bwahahaha!

Nicole, insent a little while ago to your AOL account.

Yay! Mail! I'll go check for it.

Drugs are difficult.

Heh. Scott and I had an argument over how much water he was drinking. I think it's actually a kidney issue. He was drinking a glassful of whatever glass he first grabbed out of the cabinet, regardless of size.

I was wondering because I saw a lot of women sans corset. As a civil war reenactor, that sets me on my teeth. The women dressed as pre-1500-ish wouldn't wear one.

Costuming standards and conventions are admittedly much less rigorous in the SCA than in the re-enactment groups. There isn't any rigour at all, really. However, there is social/peer pressure to learn about your chosen time period and make your gear more accurate over time. Having said that, the ladies who choose late period (by our standards) personas, tend to have really good clothing. On the overall subject of clothing accuracy at Pennsic, well, I saw a ninja in the marketplace. You tend to develop filters about these things. With no enforcement body in the organization, the general standard isn't very high, but that's not what the SCA is about. It is a big tent organization where people learn about and express their interest in the middle ages. You get everything from the astonishing to the miserable.