A Whirlwind Random Vacation Part 4: Dragonslayer GBU

I ended up talking myself into the job of co-steward for Dragonslayer this year. As events go, it's probably the easiest to run. My participation amounted to ordering extra toilets, being around at council meetings to answer any questions about the event with "I don't know" and doing a final walk-through when everything was done.

Good:

• bow_bitch did most of the heavy lifting.
  
• Several kind gentles took it upon themselves to clean up the site, meaning I didn't have to.
• There might be things that irritate me about the SCA, but service in general and leaving sites better than you found them are not among them.
  
• The Hidden Treasures shoot was fun, I had great company doing it (BB, garething, stragin, RC), and it wasn't a death march like previous years (cutting it in half was a great decision).
  
• Sitting around the bardic fire Friday and Saturday nights was a lot of fun.
  

Bad:

• I gave myself a minor groin-pull Friday afternoon while helping people set up their camps. Thankfully it was minor enough that it didn't stop me from having fun, and it was 75% better the next day and 100% gone by Sunday.
  
• We finally got the site nicely balanced. Sadly we're likely only going to have the site one more year.
  
  

Ugly:

• Had a brief depressive attack due to my poor showing in the Dragonblinder tournament. I really need to come to terms with the fact that I'm nowhere near as good an archer as I was before, and the one tournament I've truly coveted is the one I'm never going to win. Sigh. The Hidden Treasures shoot snapped me out of it.
  

Other stuff happened that I won't go into here. Suffice to say it generated a small amount of drama but ultimately went in a positive direction. If oblivions can be deliberately vague in her LJ, then so can I!

While taking down the Baronial Pavilion, I had the following exchange with a lady I didn't know:

"What if you want to serve, but you're an asshole," asked the lady, who I think was being self-deprecating.
"Those are excellent qualities for a Seneschal!"

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Lyrics Quiz

Let's see if I get more hits via non-LJ folk. Guess the song title and band.:

Let it lift you off the ground
Starry eyes, and love is all around
I can take you where you want to go


If morning's echo says we've sinned,
well, it was what I wanted now.
And if we're the victims of the night,
I won't be blinded by light.
Angel of the Morning – Juice Newton (Guessed by petranef)

You're old enough some people say
To read the signs and walk away.
It's only time that heals the pain
And makes the sun come out again.
It's Raining Again – Supertramp (Guessed by mallt)

They say the Devil's water, it ain't so sweet.
You don't have to drink right now.
But you can dip your feet every once in a little while.
When You Were Young – The Killers (Guessed by conejita_diabla)

I have here a cask of most magical wine
A vintage that blessed every ship in the line.
It's wrung from the blood of sailor's who died
Young white bodies adrift in the tide.


We we're thinking we would never be apart
With your name tattooed across my heart
Who would have thought it would end up like this?


I study nuclear science, I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3 (Guessed by conejita_diabla and thebrucie)

What does it matter to ya
When you got a job to do
You gotta do it well
You gotta give the other fellow hell.
Live & Let Die - Paul McCartney (Guessed by mallt)

Love is the leech
sucking you up
Love is the vampire
drunk on your blood.
The Beast - Concrete Blond (Guessed by ladytaryn)

Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
Stronger and harder then a bad-girl's dream.
The power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News (Guessed by conejita_diabla)