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I'm putting the questions out here in case one of them looks interesting to whoever reads this.

From baronessadriana
1. What have I taught you as your student?
2. What is favorite Pennsic memory?
3. What is one decision you regret making?
4. Who inspires you in the SCA?
5. If you could choose to give one of your SCA awards to someone else who didn't have it which one would it be and why?

From sunniva_kyrre
1.Why did you join the Horde?
2.Who has inspired/influenced you the most in the SCA?
3.If you had to pick a different time period which one ?
4.What is the hardest part about being a Peer?
5.Now that your kids are older, is there a part of raising them would you do different, if so what?

( Here are my answers. )

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From molly_world
1) What has been your biggest challenge in the SCA?
2) Which virtue do you most admire? Why?
3) If you could give up one day of your life to speak with someone from your past, who would it be and why?
4) What outfit do you own that absolutely makes you strut everytime you wear it?
5) If I was coming to your home for dinner, what would you prepare to knock my socks off?

and

From laruse
1. What do you find is the most common misconception about modern pagans?
2. The Navy was very hard on you but what positives did you take from it?
3. If you could wave a wand and magically make one thing about the SCA change, what would it be?
4. I know you had back problems, and wore a brace for a while. What kind of problems did you have and did the surgery help? Are you better for the most part?
5. East coast or west coast? :-)

and finally from isenglass
1. Do you choose your protoge's/apprentices, or do they chose you?
2. (personal, therefore optional) How did your early abuse affect the way you chose to parent?
3. Did you know that you used to scare the crap out of me?
4. What advice do you have for someone who is trying to balance their activity in the SCA and raising children?
5. What advice would you give to a newcomer to your group?

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Interesting experience

The Diet Gods bapped me one in the gut last night.

See, yesterday was our 31st wedding anniversary. It was also the evening of our monthly baronial business meeting and Arni is the Seneschal so he runs that meeting. So I knew better than to think we'd skip it but was determined to celebrate somehow. My solution was to take a side-step from the Atkin's diet I've been doing and eat a slice of apple pie ala mode.

The stomachache started about three hours later. Like labour, it intensified throughout the night and into the morning, to the point that I became somewhat lightheaded and stupid from the pain. I kept feeling my gut, laying my hand over the most painful spot and saying things to myself like, "That's way too high for the appendix, too much in front for the kidneys, too low for the stomach..." It at least diverted me from, "OMG! I'm gonna die! Worse, what if I don't? Will this ever stop???"

It did finally fade. And now I know that going nearly carb-less for an extended time and then shocking my system with a sucker-punch of sugar is, shall we say, a baaaad idea.

I just slogged through the Merry Rose

And all I can think is that if it ever comes to happen, Marinus and Tir-Y-Don will get hindteat. Folks think we're too far now - how will being the designated fringe help us?

Answer: it won't. And if it goes as it did last time, we're going to be hearing a lot of "we want XX group, your neighbors, but we don't want your group."

It made me heart-sick last time around when it was said to my face.

Folks are suggesting two seperate 12th nights and thing like that - do they not understand that they are already supporting the idea of a split? That they are saying, "I do not intend to travel beyond Point X"?