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Ow. Thud.
I've had a very involved weekend. I actually made a couple of new friends, and enjoyed meeting the Meridian Torch, Baron Alexander, who taught one of my heraldry classes. I spent time at the heraldic consultation table, which is where I made the new friend, although I also have pictures of several new acquaintances in my camera.
By the way, I find uploading pictures to LiveJournal tedious, so, for the most part, they'll be at Flicker.com/scyllacat. But they're not up yet! Don't go!
It's true, if you go to court enough times, eventually you'll understand what's going on at court! Our seneschal, Marie, and her husband, with whom I am not as familiar (since he's not sitting next to me at meetings), were made a Court Baron and Baroness. One of my new heraldic friends got his Award of Arms. Awards don't mean anything outside of the SCA, but they are presumably given for merit. Anyone can show up, and anyone can pay their membership fee and get a card, but the Society exists on teaching and working together, so your service to the group is what gets notice. There's a complete order of precedence, which, as a new Herald, is on my list of things to study up on. But the most notable landmarks are A) getting an Award of Arms, which is usually a service award that basically says, you've consistently shown up and are working and learning; B) Becoming a protege, squire, or apprentice, which means you've been chosen by someone in one of three branches, Pelicanate, Chivalry, or Laurelate, to become their student; C) being named Pelican, Knight, or Laurel, (these are administrative, fighting, and arts&sciences specialties, respectively) D) Being named a Court Baron, which means you're officially a member of the Royal Court, I guess... I'm not as clear on what you get to do.:)
There's many, many others -- including service awards for dancing, teaching, costuming, research, etc. I can't even remember them all. Heck, I can't remember everything that was given out in court this time! And, since it was the Royal University Meridies, those who had completed an entire set of courses received Scholarly Recognition as befit them.
While I was talking to the consulting Herald, he asked me if my name were registered. I said no, he said, would you like to? He even loaned me $2 and change to complete the fee for doing so. I'm not surprised he received his Award of Arms. That's the kind of thing SCA is about. So, if it is approved, I will officially be Lucia di Padua. Simply, Lucy from Padua. But Lucia means light, also illumination, which is one of my interests, and Padua in the 13th c. (which is, roughly, my time period as chosen) was the site of a University, still there today, founded by scholars seeking intellectual freedom, another interest of mine, as you might guess. But I got tired of trying to find a "just right," too complicated, too-hard-to-document name. This is good.
My travels to and fro were little worth speaking of. I missed out on feast, so drove off to Waffle House for about a gallon of coffee and a patty melt. I made up for the shortcomings foodwise today after helping with the Starbridge Workday. Logan made chicken and hamburgers and hotdogs and I ate both chicken and hamburgers with two helpings of watermelon and mixed fruit. No bread, no chips, but I did have a Coke on the way home.
Before lunch I spent a good amount of time whacking the weeds around the square field where the music stage is. Then I put Round-Up on the rest of them. My arms are still annoyed at me and wondering what I have done.
After lunch, Logan let us have a "sneak peak" of 4 tracks from the new Emerald Rose album. Sweet. I laughed aloud at "Danny in the Jar."
And I've done the first listen on the last 25 reports of transcription. So, I've gotten over the first bit of the last bit: That part where I dread opening up the sound file and discovering it's mush. There's no more mush, as far as I can tell.
It's already 7:30, though, and I don't know how much more I'll do tonight. I may bed early in order to start bright and early, but... tomorrow is the LAST day of classwork. *deep breath* DON'T PANIC.
While I was gone, Charlie received the last HP and has already read it. So it's just sitting there, waiting for me.... Damn.
By the way, I find uploading pictures to LiveJournal tedious, so, for the most part, they'll be at Flicker.com/scyllacat. But they're not up yet! Don't go!
It's true, if you go to court enough times, eventually you'll understand what's going on at court! Our seneschal, Marie, and her husband, with whom I am not as familiar (since he's not sitting next to me at meetings), were made a Court Baron and Baroness. One of my new heraldic friends got his Award of Arms. Awards don't mean anything outside of the SCA, but they are presumably given for merit. Anyone can show up, and anyone can pay their membership fee and get a card, but the Society exists on teaching and working together, so your service to the group is what gets notice. There's a complete order of precedence, which, as a new Herald, is on my list of things to study up on. But the most notable landmarks are A) getting an Award of Arms, which is usually a service award that basically says, you've consistently shown up and are working and learning; B) Becoming a protege, squire, or apprentice, which means you've been chosen by someone in one of three branches, Pelicanate, Chivalry, or Laurelate, to become their student; C) being named Pelican, Knight, or Laurel, (these are administrative, fighting, and arts&sciences specialties, respectively) D) Being named a Court Baron, which means you're officially a member of the Royal Court, I guess... I'm not as clear on what you get to do.:)
There's many, many others -- including service awards for dancing, teaching, costuming, research, etc. I can't even remember them all. Heck, I can't remember everything that was given out in court this time! And, since it was the Royal University Meridies, those who had completed an entire set of courses received Scholarly Recognition as befit them.
While I was talking to the consulting Herald, he asked me if my name were registered. I said no, he said, would you like to? He even loaned me $2 and change to complete the fee for doing so. I'm not surprised he received his Award of Arms. That's the kind of thing SCA is about. So, if it is approved, I will officially be Lucia di Padua. Simply, Lucy from Padua. But Lucia means light, also illumination, which is one of my interests, and Padua in the 13th c. (which is, roughly, my time period as chosen) was the site of a University, still there today, founded by scholars seeking intellectual freedom, another interest of mine, as you might guess. But I got tired of trying to find a "just right," too complicated, too-hard-to-document name. This is good.
My travels to and fro were little worth speaking of. I missed out on feast, so drove off to Waffle House for about a gallon of coffee and a patty melt. I made up for the shortcomings foodwise today after helping with the Starbridge Workday. Logan made chicken and hamburgers and hotdogs and I ate both chicken and hamburgers with two helpings of watermelon and mixed fruit. No bread, no chips, but I did have a Coke on the way home.
Before lunch I spent a good amount of time whacking the weeds around the square field where the music stage is. Then I put Round-Up on the rest of them. My arms are still annoyed at me and wondering what I have done.
After lunch, Logan let us have a "sneak peak" of 4 tracks from the new Emerald Rose album. Sweet. I laughed aloud at "Danny in the Jar."
And I've done the first listen on the last 25 reports of transcription. So, I've gotten over the first bit of the last bit: That part where I dread opening up the sound file and discovering it's mush. There's no more mush, as far as I can tell.
It's already 7:30, though, and I don't know how much more I'll do tonight. I may bed early in order to start bright and early, but... tomorrow is the LAST day of classwork. *deep breath* DON'T PANIC.
While I was gone, Charlie received the last HP and has already read it. So it's just sitting there, waiting for me.... Damn.
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Despite the many traditions involved in the process, the Peer-associate relationship (squire/protege/apprentice) is completely unofficial and is not part of the SCA award structure or precedence. It is a major milestone in many people's SCA career, though it is not a required or necessary part of the game.
The Court Barony is an unusual sort of award, given for many different reasons. The connotations of the award vary greatly from kingdom to kingdom.
You can always add a family surname later if you find one you like. I think that the proper formation of the locative surname would be "Lucia da Padua", but you may be able to do it both ways.
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And I do not claim to give any kind of official anything, just the kind of "landmarks" one has in a long and presumably prosperous Society life. Perhaps I should go ahead and ask Mr. Pratt for a nice disclaimer, if I should be so bold as to keep talking about such things here. ;)
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And if I find a suitable surname, I can re-register, right?
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As I said, I can't speak authoritatively for 13th century Padua. A little googling and Wikipedia browsing, however, suggests that Marchetto da Padova (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetto_da_Padova) was the name of an early Trecento (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trecento) composer, born in late 13th century Padua. Wikipedia is obviously not an official source for heralds, but at least it hints that you're on the right track.
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