#ooc

sigh

SCA suspended all in-person stuff through may

i understand, I know, I really do

but I am allowed to be sad, right?

Of course you are. You're not an automaton

And yet, plans for Pennsic 2021 are go.

I guess if we DON'T suspend stuff through May, there's no chance of a Pennsic.

HOnestly, I think the SCA should have some sort of medal or commendation for those that stayed in the SCA and were in the community during Covid. Like withstanding a seige, there should be some 'Wall against the Plague' honorific handed out in 2022

I am not holding out much hope for pennsic

our shire has mostly gone into hbernation

I just CAN'T with this e-SCA stuff, I am zoomed out

Think I have a first name for Doomwind even if it isn't Norwegian

oo?

Doomy Doomwind?

Dernhelm which was the name Eowyn used in the novels while pretending to be a male soldier

ooo!

Ha! I like it.

And Catnik, I was burned out on my local shire before the pandemic. Right now...I just can't even with these people.

I'm the seneschal

Odd sidenote, apparently in Rohanic, Eowyn could be translated to "Delighter in Horses"

HA!

Eowyn's the best!

Catnik, I think I've been the exchequer for eight years now.

Possibly more.

yeah

I'm supposed to take over that job in january

I don't wanna

been seneschal for three years

Hmmm...just checked, looks more like ten years.

yeah

we term limited seneschal & exchequer because burnout was high

i don't wanna do it

i am super burned out right now

exchequer has monthly reports

Oh, I've been "given a sock" and released multiple times...but then something always happens to the new exchequer, and I'm right back in the job. And the request for monthly reports is bullshit. I do my quarterlies. The end.

Midrealm loves its bullshit.

We don't do monthlies, they will yank our charter

The month my father died, I was late on my herald's quarterly - Kingdom sent screaming emails to our then-seneschal threatening to shutter us

I wasn't a month late. I wasn't a week late. It was like two days after.

Geez, pardon me, but Kingdom needs to stop being assholes

agreed

UGH. Yeah, that's sucky.

And then, like, okay, gonna bitch

I was getting reminders when I was WEEKS late with exchequer reports...but they were kind. (Plus, we've had zero transactions to record since January.)

but I have held an office continuously for over five years, I have been chatelaine, herald, and seneschal. Ya'll know how it feels to go to court and see somebody get an AOA-level service award for autocrating a single event?