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Okay, this new update screen is weird. What, disappear for a couple of months, and everything changes?

Went to the medieval festical at the Cloisters today, and was filled with a crazed desire to embark on an SCA career. I'm slightly concerned that the reason I haven't followed through on so many of the weird quirks that I've wanted to pursue is lack of follow through. And why should investment be so frightening?Am I really that much of a dabbler/dillettante? That's a horrific thought.

There's also the fear that I only have so much room for commitment. This whole doctorate business is eating my soul. And while I do so love being obsessive about the pursuit of knowledge and its subtle power of secrets and mysteries; and my ambition seems like an all-devouring beast sometimes, unlike my fellow classmates, who seem to have embarked on this course for the true desire to teach and help others, where I merely revel in the thought of a captive audience, and the potential of notoriety in small ivory-tower circles, surely there is, and should be more to me than that.

And now, to return to Welsh (which sounds precisely like Elvish, and gives me a strange thrill every time I pronounce a word correctly...)

Comments

[patashoqua.livejournal.com]

There's a great Stephen Fry quote about being a jack-of-all-trades; I think Gaiman quoted it in his blog recently.

And I still can't believe you're going to be Dr. Kali!

me neither

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

though sometimes it does seem predestined.

however miles (and years) to go before we sleep, or doctor-ate (verb, meaning to be doctored,and then possibly eaten?).

are you not impressed at my ability to mangle a quotation out of all sense and humourous significance? that's why you love me, no?

Re: me neither

[patashoqua.livejournal.com]

One of many, many, many reasons.

Whist!!!

Re: me neither

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

little ghost things!

Re: me neither

[patashoqua.livejournal.com]

Are you on the internets right now?

Re: me neither

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

yes, I casts out my internets in hopes of catching me a katfish.

Re: me neither

[patashoqua.livejournal.com]

I don't see you! wah.

[soulhaus.livejournal.com]

welsh is unnatural.. it has no vowels? ;)

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

actually it does, though they are mostly 'y's and 'w's, pronounced mostly as e's, i's and o's. though there are exceptions. it does get a bit confusing rather.

long time no talk. how's tricks?

[soulhaus.livejournal.com]

tricks are allright, you know, same old. thinking of becoming a gypsy/nomad/bum in a few months, it's kind of exciting ;)

how bout you, pretty girl?

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm sickly. But don't worry, I didn't catch it from you yesterday. I was coughing a bit before then.

I can't believe you didn't post about Jack!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

heh. yes jack was very pretty. even though he did think my name was "holly". heh. we could secretly tell people that our names are 'holly' and 'ivy'. they could be our super secret code names for our evil dark secret deeds. okay. i'm obviously a little tired, and have used the word 'secret' far too often in this comment.

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

He heard it wrong because he was drunk on RUM! You can't blame JACK for that! ;-)

I'm down for usin' ivy! Sure beats the hell out of Lynn or Rachel, remember them ::BIG GRIN::?

[calloocallay.livejournal.com]

I find the PhD program eats my time more than it eats my soul, but both infringe on SCA activities... plus, do you really want creative anachronism? I, personally, want historical accuracy... worked at the Northern Californian Faire for four years....

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

hee. You found me!

I don't know, my soul seems to be pretty much devoured, but not quite digested. Every so often it tries to regurgitate itself. But otherwise I feel like I go around like some sort of English zombie, occasionally opening my mouth to go, "Brains! Shaaaaaakespeare! Brains! Faeries! Braaaaains!"

I was using SCA as a kind of shorthand term, but historical accuracy is definitely preferable. Recently however, I've been chasing (read: aimlessly daydreaming about things I would do if I had more time/money) the Regency period. Have just discovered that they run Assemblies in the NYC area. Mmmm...port, whist and country dances. Also empire-waist dresses. Perhaps I have been reading too much of Miss Austen...

Mind if I add you?

Shakespearian Braaaaains

[calloocallay.livejournal.com]

It wasn't difficult! You told me your livejournal name, I just typed it in. And dude, I worked at Faire, I bellydance, I worked at the Old California Faire and I worked at the Dickens Faire. Costumes are my middle name. Not too into the emire waists, though. Give me a corset and a hoop skirt any day.

Of course you should add me!