Herald has leveled up!

A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to up my herald game. So I sent an email to Blue Tyger and Brigantia with my qualifications and asked if they had any position openings in the next year.

I got an email back from Blue Tyger offering for me to join in on their slack sessions. So I've been doing that the past 2 weeks, and getting more confident on my contributions to the discussion. It's confidential submission stuff, so I can't document here what's going on, but my help seems to be warmly appreciated! They like me! They really really like me!

I signed up for some shifts for Pennsic at Heralds point, doing admin entry stuff if needed. I am committing myself to helping for those two shifts and am determined to pop in other times to help out where I can. While I'm not even 90% confident on my consulting sans the ability to say "Let me check and I'll get back to you" I know there's plenty of backup to look over my shoulder, so I'm jumping in with both feet and offering to help with submitters.

As I told my sister, I know it takes like 30 years to become a Pelican, so if I don't start now, then it's just that much further out that I can hope for it. Heralding is what I am most confident at and enjoy the most, so that is where I'm going to concentrate my efforts in growth. Also heralding is very enjoyable and heralds are such fun people! So: learn, grow, help, and have fun while doing it. Yes, thank you!



I'm still working on scroll backlogs. I started pencilling out the words for one while I was on vacation with the extended family last week. The other night I started inking the calligraphy, and after about 3 or 4 lines I noticed that some words were spread out and others were squished together. It was seriously not acceptable for me. And besides, it was just a practice/layout page, so I'm not upset, I'll just start over. But that will be the last time I try working on scrolls while at the beach house. Too many mundane people around, especially kids age 11 and under. I meant to do another pencil layout tonight, but got caught up in helping Blue Tyger office hours again. And my cat settled down and was purring in my lap, so I obviously couldn't move. It'll get done tomorrow.