Seeing people! In person!

When we last left our superhero...

My barony has had two in person events now! We only have one event site in the area, and it's got a HUGE outdoor space, so the events can be safely held to the comfort of the more cautious people. Me. I'm cautious people. 

I offered to do the champion scrolls. And 2 weeks before the first event (Arrows Axes and Ales, so three champions) I realized I needed scrolls blanks. Lilly Morgaine said she had one, a black hours scroll she had done just to try it out. She's freaking amazing. So she lent me gold ink and I got that one done up. Vettorio said he found a scroll blank his apprentice Oda Lally had done, so I used that and got the second one done. I decided to shoot for the stars and found a simple cadel online. I traced that and made the third scroll by myself. Which has always been a goal of mine, so yay! I'm proud of myself for that. When I posted it to facebook after the event I got a message from a gentle who's well known for cadels and he gave me a tip or two on how to improve on that. But I got those scrolls done 2 days before the event, whew.

At the event I took a turn at serving dayboard. To keep things clean as people came up to the table I would say "Hello! Welcome to dayboard, please use the utensils!" Because I had discussed previously with the autocrat that people are oblivious and would just reach in for stuff with their hands, right next to the spoons and tongs. So this was a friendly yet firm reminder. We also had sanitizing wipes to use every so often on high-touch areas.

After that I hung out with my friends a bunch, and relaxed.

Until the competitions were finished. I suddenly realized I didn't print out cut sheets like I'd intended to before leaving the house. So I begged some paper and was frantically writing out the words for the herald. As I'm halfway through that I'm told the winners names and that court should start soon. So between the chill in the air and the adrenaline from rushing to write out words my hands were a bit shaky and I'm not proud of the way the names came out. Oh well, can't be helped.

Court was enjoyable, it was late October and still warm enough to hold it on the outside stage. After that was a quick cleanup and break down and then headed home.

Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach...

There are many people in my family who are or were teachers. There's even more of my friends who are teachers. There is good reason why I'm not a teacher. My thought process is "I can take 2 hours to teach a person how to do a thing, or I can do it myself in 30 minutes." It's frustrating for myself when I know that part of the SCA and the Peer track is teaching others.

I've wrangled feast serving for a handful of events. For St. Andrews, Lily volunteered to be in charge of feast servers and asked me to teach her how to do it. There's so many little things that I just *do* and don't think about that it's difficult for me to lay out step by step what to do. And I wanted to bug her about "Have you nailed down volunteers yet? Have you done this yet? Have you done that yet?", but I didn't want to be a micromanager. Luckily she's intelligent and has common sense and is very receptive of my suggestions. So either I'd be on top of her so much that she'd get resentful, or I back off and toss her emails as I think of things and hope for the best. I went with the latter, confident that she'd be on top of things. Of course I had volunteered to be one of the servers so if things did go pear-shaped I could step in and help get it sorted out.

Unfortunately things never go to plan. All the hiccups that happened at feast were not the fault of the servers, and there was nothing we could do to prevent it or fix it. But Lily was watching, trying to keep our end of things going smoothly, I was hovering nearby her see if there was anything I could do to help. The other servers were people from her household and I know the specific ones that were helping were good ones. I told her at the end of the night that usually feast isn't quite so frantic, and it's much more relaxed. But she did a good job and now she knows how to do it. So there's 2 people in the barony that feastocrats can go to for heading up serving.