Spring, when a young person's fancy turns to.....

1. Making a hell of a racket. It's official. I am registered (and paid) for Taiko For Beginners. Classes start April 15 and it probably won't be ANYTHING like this. In my favor, I can keep a beat and know how to listen to others in an ensemble. Fitness-wise I suspect this is going to kick my ass - two miles a day or not.

2. Making new clothes. The day started with someone squeakingly new on sca-jml. Then I got TWO emails today from people who'd hit my website. One is some high school kid who wants to make her own Heian outfit looking for a nagabakama pattern, the other was a young man involved in Dagohir (LARP) looking for patterns for men's stuff. I referred them to the appropriate places since those are wheels I have not seen fit to reinvent.  Personally, I will probably start work on Mike's squire obi this weekend.

Kingdoms, THOSE other kingdoms!

Never get involved in a land war in Asia, never go up against a Sicilian where death is involved and do NOT expect someone from Jersey not to keep score.

This  was posted to someone's journal today. I have never found this "joke" amusing, especially as a transplant to this kingdom who successfully (I think) kept a personal oath not to be The Ugly Easterner when I first arrived.

So, I decided to time travel back to last spring and respond with THIS.

It's still true this year. It always will be. I am proud of my affiliations and friendships and achievements. There are currently 19 kingdoms in the SCA. I have attended events in eight of them (and taught in four of those), I have people I consider friends (live and electronic correspondent kind) in at least eleven.