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Feb. 20th, 2013 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichI was just working on a SCA heraldic submission (recoloring a grey elephant in a 'light enough grey') and was noodling while I worked, and realised how far I've come since I took on the Kingdom Submission Herald job.
Before October of 2011, I knew what a chief was on a device, what a charge was (in that I could recognise the word's meaning but would have been hard-pressed to think of that word myself) and what 'per saltire' was. If I needed to tell someone about a device that was "per pale" I would have said, "divided down the middle with a color/metal on this side and another one on the other". I also knew that colors couldn't go on a colored field, or metal on metal - but would have needed a good ten minutes to think of the specific heraldic terms for any of them.
I didn't know how to use OSCAR - as a reader, much less a submitter or commentor. I didn't know how to scan images, nor how to edit them and then create new files that were not specifically Word files. I didn't know any of the html codes besides the three or so we need for posting on LiveJournal. I had no idea about how to create the special alphabetical letters (Da'ud notation) necessary to enter submissions into OSCAR.
I didn't know anything about our rules of submission (except for what is noted above) and when SENA was being brought forward, I would have been hard-pressed to tell you what was different between it and the past rules, as I was equally unfamiliar with either of them.
"Geirr Bassi" had no significance to me. Neither did "Reaney and Wilson" nor "Withycombe".
I didn't know a darned thing about what was in the LoAR except for the list of acceptances & approvals. Nor how useful precedences would be. Neither did I learn to cuss out webministers who stopped posting past issues of Kingdom Letters of Decision, nor how very stupid I was to agree to let my predecessor keep the submission files so he could continue to work on creating electronic copies of them. (Never, ever, ever do that. I'm still working on getting those darned files and am dependent on one long-memoried Herald to let me know if something is a resubmission older than two years.)
All I knew was how to be a good secretary and how to do research. And who to cry on when I was lost again.
I'm kinda happy with myself now. There is still a huge amount for me to learn but I'm going to take this evening to just appreciate how much this job has already taught me and how much fun it all has become now that it isn't so confusing.
Before October of 2011, I knew what a chief was on a device, what a charge was (in that I could recognise the word's meaning but would have been hard-pressed to think of that word myself) and what 'per saltire' was. If I needed to tell someone about a device that was "per pale" I would have said, "divided down the middle with a color/metal on this side and another one on the other". I also knew that colors couldn't go on a colored field, or metal on metal - but would have needed a good ten minutes to think of the specific heraldic terms for any of them.
I didn't know how to use OSCAR - as a reader, much less a submitter or commentor. I didn't know how to scan images, nor how to edit them and then create new files that were not specifically Word files. I didn't know any of the html codes besides the three or so we need for posting on LiveJournal. I had no idea about how to create the special alphabetical letters (Da'ud notation) necessary to enter submissions into OSCAR.
I didn't know anything about our rules of submission (except for what is noted above) and when SENA was being brought forward, I would have been hard-pressed to tell you what was different between it and the past rules, as I was equally unfamiliar with either of them.
"Geirr Bassi" had no significance to me. Neither did "Reaney and Wilson" nor "Withycombe".
I didn't know a darned thing about what was in the LoAR except for the list of acceptances & approvals. Nor how useful precedences would be. Neither did I learn to cuss out webministers who stopped posting past issues of Kingdom Letters of Decision, nor how very stupid I was to agree to let my predecessor keep the submission files so he could continue to work on creating electronic copies of them. (Never, ever, ever do that. I'm still working on getting those darned files and am dependent on one long-memoried Herald to let me know if something is a resubmission older than two years.)
All I knew was how to be a good secretary and how to do research. And who to cry on when I was lost again.
I'm kinda happy with myself now. There is still a huge amount for me to learn but I'm going to take this evening to just appreciate how much this job has already taught me and how much fun it all has become now that it isn't so confusing.
