jamesq | 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!"