Where to go from here (in a few months)

I'm stepping down from my most recent SCA job in September(ish - I promised to help my successor with the Pennsic letter first) and I'm mulling over what to take on next. I had thought I'd be putting in for the Kingdom Herald job but have learned that the current one has forgotten our years of conversations about my interest and she's grooming her new drop-dead for the position. I'm not really interested in bucking the tide, as it were, and the new guy deserves a chance at a kingdom job rather than having an old fart challenge him for it (he is basically unknown to most of the kingdom) but I have come to realize that I enjoy working in this field and don't want to just go back to being, at most, a baronial herald. I think I could contribute more to the College than just that. I could work on being a commenter "at large" - I haven't had a great deal of practice in conflict-checking and that would be a good way to learn it - but that seems, at the same time a rather lame thing to "move onto". The thing is, I don't really know where there is need as I'd been so focused on the kingdom job as the natural next step that I haven't been paying attention to what is needed elsewhere. That's what I get for becoming complacent, isn't it? All that talk about forming policies and backing up hers with mine... stupid me. I feel a tad silly about it. (Along with a tad hurt and disappointed, too, but as an admin-person, I cannot see the harm in giving a new person a chance to take on a position and becoming, perhaps in time, more recognized through their work. It just hurt a bit that I had to find out about the about-face via a third party.)

Then again, I could spend some time actually doing the (set aside) research in Viking-era lifestyles - cooking and clothing - that I've not been able to get to. That would most likely mean that I'll be distracted away from heraldry though, and I'm balking at the thought. And I haven't done much embroidery in years. I miss that. Of course, all of that is going to be more possible when I'm not holding down a job requiring quite so much keyboard time.

I don't know. I have a few month to figure it out. The question keeps rearing its head in my leisure moments now that I've learned that I don't have the support for the 'next' job that I thought I did. It leaves me at loose ends, a bit, but at the same time it frees me for other things if I could just figure out what I want to concentrate on. And at last, I'll be doing this with my brain back! Three years of mental cloudiness will be behind me. I need a new challenge.

I'm on slate for a couple of years of more involvement with Pennsic staff. That is going to be fun but it only takes a few months of a year for that... I need to look around and see where the need is and if I can fill it.