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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

[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!