Cooking and SCA Heraldry

I'm on the computer when I should be baking. I meant to bake but realised that I was going to use up all of the eggs so since it was 2300 I practically flew to the local big grocery store (Krogers) to get supplies. And ended up dawdling enough that I was there when the "we close in 30 minutes" announcement was made. Drove my little cart to the checkout area and ran my groceries through the register and - - oops! my wallet was not in my pocket. It was back home on the kitchen table. The clerk said she'd watch my stuff for me so again I flew down our streets and actually made it home and back again in time. But sometime between loading and unloading the groceries I tweaked my back so bending over bowls and our table isn't high on my desired activity list right now. It will be. Arni knows that I am making snickerdoodles since those came in a bake mix, but he doesn't know that I plan on making oatmeal raisin cookies and also chocolate chip ones. He won't ask for them. He is very careful not to put too much cooking pressure on me since it is not something I do easily lately (depression does odd things to people. Playing in the kitchen is not anything I really enjoy anymore.) So if I get these done before he comes home from work tomorrow he will be so happy and so surprised.

I asked for membership in two FB heraldry groups just now. I left them when I hit burnout three years ago and now I'm slowly slipping my toes back into the water. Or not so slowly, since I brought a subject up at our Kingdom's Unevent meeting (officer's and orders annual "work day") and the Kingdom Herald turned it right back around and made it my problem to address. Cheeky guy! A guy with a Mongolian persona just became a member of the Order of the Laurel and rather than use the title "Master" he has announced that he will be using "Bagsh", which is the Mongolian word for "teacher". Since the Mongols did not have a social system like the Europeans, it is the closest thing they have to what our Order members would be known for (respected skill holders who pass on their knowledge and craft). But what my friend didn't do was cite where he got this word from. I suspect he got it by chatting with the Mongolian expats he knows, which is great for modern vocabulary but not so great for medieval usage. So now I have to go digging, or maybe begging, to find if this is a medievally-used Mongol word and under which circumstances it was used, whether as a descriptor or a title/descriptor. Buddhists certainly used the equivalent as a title. Consider the Japanese "Sensei". But getting it into consideration by the College of Heralds is my assignment.