Jan. 19th, 2008

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Ganked from [personal profile] danabren
1. What is your SCA Name?
Jehanne de Wodeford (registered)
or Saionji no Hanae

2. What time and where do you portray?
Late 13th c. England or 13th century Japan

3. In plain English describe your device.
Black and red diagonally divided field with a pissed off attack swan and three fleurs de lis above it in a row, all in white.

4. How long have you been in the SCA?
SCA since 1995, since getting Beowulf and Chaucer as storytime before the age of 5 doesn't appear to count.

5. Do you have any special titles you have earned?
I'm particularly partial to "Goddess of Common Sense," though I will answer to "Crazy Monkey Lady."

6. What kingdom and local group do you belong to?
I am a citizen of The Known World. My local group is the West Kingdom.

7. Do you have preferred colors for your SCA Persona?
Jehanne has a preferred color palette (jewel tones). So does Saionji (EVERYTHING!!!!!! The blingier the better!)

8. What is your war that you look forward to going to every year?
Estrella.

9. Do you hold any offices?
After being made an emotional wreck and physically ill by the last one, make that Never Again.

10. Favorite memory from an event?
I have to pick just ONE? If there was only one do you think I'd keep coming back?

11. Are you a fighter? What kind?
No. One battle as a staff slinger several years ago doesn't really count.

12. Are you crafty (making things)?
Guilty as charged. See http://www.wodefordhall.com

13. Do you teach classes at events?
Yes.

14. Do you play instruments at events?
Yes. Obnoxious ones even.

15. Do you dance at events?
See #14. Mission From God requires me to prevent the use of electronic devices when a perfectly good live musician is onsite.

16. Do you feel that there is enough flirting and chivalrous behavior in the SCA ?
Flirting? What's that?

There is never enough chivalrous behavior. There can never be too much chivalrous behavior.

17. Are you a "Black Hat" or a "White Hat"?.
I'm a Straw Hat.

18. What is one of the reasons you've remained in the SCA?
Friends.

19. What peerage(s) do you aspire to?
I don't. I do what I do for my own reasons. As in, "This is fun."  Or "This is not fun right now so I'm going to do something else."

20. Who was Crown when you joined the SCA?
Balfar and Luna in the East.

21. If you are a Peer, who was the Crown that elevated you?
N/A. Got my AoA from Lucan and Caitlin.

22. Have you lived in more than 1 kingdom and which ones?
East Kingdom, West Kingdom, have attended events in Atlantia, Outlands, CAID and Atenveldt.

23. Have you helped found a group?
Check back with me after Estrella to see if the Rising Sun camp was a success or not.

24. Have you had any house affiliations?
House Auklandus, for one brief, shining moment. 
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From our friends at Y! Astrology:
  1. SagittariusSagittarius (11/22-12/21)

    Your attitude will be mismatched with your company today -- the people around you will be on a completely different wavelength than you are. Luckily, that won't bother you one tiny bit! Your tolerance for diversity is very high right now, and you can effortlessly get along with anyone. To you, their oddball behavior is interesting to the point of almost being charming. This is a good time for you to learn how other people see the world, and find out if you could see it that way, too.


Interesting that I found this AFTER getting home from a reconnaissance run to San Francisco. Yeah, I know, I was supposed to be sewing, but the weather was too nice to be stuck inside!

I figured I'd hit Daiso in Daly City early and see if I could pick up a couple more teacups, so I went there first. They were out of the style I liked, but I found a few useful kitchen tools, and a couple of pretty, inexpensive paper fans as tokens for the two ladies whose husbands said, "Yeah! I wanna camp with Makiwara!" But how do I break the news to [personal profile] bovil and [personal profile] kproche the news that they had 10" high tanuki figures for only $10? Sorry, guys, they DIDN'T have them when I went there in the fall, or I'd've given you the head's up. (No, I didn't buy one. I'm going to have enough crap loading down 'Tite Blanche for the war.)

From there I went into Japantown in San Francisco. Restocked my supply of Moss Garden incense and bought a couple Shoyeido sampler packs at Asakichi's "Incense Closet" on the bridge between Kintetsu Mall and the Kinokuniya building. So of course I HAD to go to their downstairs shop and browse - and found a couple more things for my gift stash. Managed not to buy anything at Kinokuniya, but I was pleased to see that they moved the manga out of the main store and put it by itself in a new store downstairs. It just makes much more sense logistically, and now the main store has more room for books with words in them.

Found Nijiya Market and it's NOT the one I usually buy lunch at. (That's Sakai, further up the hill on the other side of Post Street). Crowded as all hell at lunchtime on a Saturday, their selection was very impressive. I got myself some seaweed salad and tuna sashimi to eat in the Peace Plaza and picked up a few non-perishables. I'll make a final grocery run for the Rising Sun party the Saturday before war. Things like mochi do better fresh.

Last stop, Soko Hardware. Not open on Sundays, it's worth a visit. In addition to the sorts of things you'd expect to find in a hardware store, they have a great selection of Japanese kitchenware, plus other Japanese gifts and clothing. I picked up a sando-gasa (hat) for Sakurai, who's flying in all the way from Nova Scotia to attend Estrella. I also found some inexpensive teacups. See, I discovered at GWW that having more teacups would've been a very good thing for the House of Cheerful Monkeys. So now I have three different sets of three teacups (four is an unlucky number in Japan), which ought to be plenty. Soko also turned out to have the plastic sake cups I like, so now I don't have to mail order 'em from House Of Rice.

And now I shall repair downstairs, find a movie to watch and work on banners for Rising Sun.

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