another chat-with-your-friends meme

[cellio]

I saw this in several people's journals and was curious, so now it's here, in slightly modified form.

If you comment, and I can...

1. I'll respond with something I like about you.
2. I'll name something we should do together.
3. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
4. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
5. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
6. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you, if I have such a thought.

If I do this for you, please post this in your journal so you can do the same for other people.

Comments

[alienor.livejournal.com]

comment. ;-)

[cellio]

1. Your interest, from the start, in historical accuracy in the SCA; a lot of people (especially ones who found the SCA when they were fairly young) come first for the party and/or sports and only look at the re-creation aspects later.

2. Make music. :-) (Well, meet, but as long as we're meeting, bring your instruments.)

3. Sorry, coming up empty here.

4. I don't remember how we ran into each other on LJ, but fairly early we had a discussion about choosing dances to teach at events and weaning people off of the four dances of the apocalypse and onto the ones with scary-sounding (= foreign) names.

5. "To get answers from usenet, don't ask questions: post errors." Some of the mailing-list stuff you've mentioned brought this to mind. (Alas, I have no source.)

6. You're interested in both the SCA and living-history groups. The first gives you flexibility; the second gives you more authenticity. How do you trade off those two factors? If you could have a really authentic experience, but at the cost of things you enjoy doing that a woman in such-and-such time wouldn't have done, is that cool or frustrating?

[alienor.livejournal.com]

2. Definately! :-)

5. Oh, that quote is *really* good!

6. Trade-offs: I think first, realize that LH events are only 2 or 3 times a year, and so there aren't that many times (a year) that I end up saying to myself "oh, a woman of my social situation wouldn't do XYZ that I want to do" in the context of a LH event.

Second, the atmospheres are totally different. I don't go to LH events and see people doing inauthentic things, so if I wanted to do them, I'd be doing them by myself. Since most of my interests are *group* things, I don't end up saying to myself many times during an event "oh, a woman of my social situation wouldn't do XYZ that I want to do."

About the authentic experience, I think it's about moderation. A lot of (my experience with) LH *events* is sitting in camp sewing and watching the kids. I find that the monthly meetings are more interesting, since that's when research gets discussed and things get made... the events are about first person interpretation, so you don't DO that.

I think if I did the authentic LH experience once or twice a month, I'd go crazy with boredom! So... I think the only reason I'm not frustrated is because it doesn't happen that often, and I treasure it when it does. When I want to do things that "I" wouldn't have done, I go to an SCA event. :-)

This year has been particularly sparse: between my travel schedule and introducing fenrir1323 to the concept. One of the major events is this weekend, so this afternoon we're going to go play "tourist" ;-) It's open to the public, so we're going to be public.

Hopefully we'll get to go to the October event this year (it was cancelled last year). Since that one isn't open to the public, it's both more and less authentic - the standards are a little more lenient, but the public and other reenactors from WWII and stuff aren't around. :-)

[cellio]

I think first, realize that LH events are only 2 or 3 times a year,

Oh, I didn't realize they were that infrequent. Thanks for the response.