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msmemory_archive) wrote2004-05-03 01:19 pm
msmemory_archive) wrote2004-05-03 01:19 pm
Unformed musing on events
This is a not-quite-yet-gelled thought....
When I first joined the SCA, events were Big Deals. The rest of the month(s) would slide past in a mix of completely trivial mundane committments that all mushed together, punctuated by panicky sessions making new garb, or shopping for cheap feastgear, or cooking (badly documented) picnic fare. Then the Event would happen. I'd be there all day, it would be the focus of my month.
Lately, without gafiating in the least, I've discovered that the mush of mundane stuff doesn't take care of itself quite as readily. I can't just dash out leaving the laundry or bills untended, or the gas tank empty. I need to sleep more than 4-5 hours a night, too.
Plus, there are now multiple nearby events every month (example: within the last two months I've been to four - King Lear, Coronation, the masked ball, and May Day - and this wasn't a heavy schedule). So the breathless focus on The Upcoming Event is rather diminished when there are so many.
I'd like to get back some of the excitement about going to events. Not by cutting back to going only once a month, however. I still enjoy events a lot, so it's not a search for gratification from eventing. Yet I don't want to give up those quiet Saturdays when I have time to tend the house, make a complex dinner, see a movie, take a walk along the Charles River.... Maybe I'm just becoming a fogey after all. Hmmmmm......
When I first joined the SCA, events were Big Deals. The rest of the month(s) would slide past in a mix of completely trivial mundane committments that all mushed together, punctuated by panicky sessions making new garb, or shopping for cheap feastgear, or cooking (badly documented) picnic fare. Then the Event would happen. I'd be there all day, it would be the focus of my month.
Lately, without gafiating in the least, I've discovered that the mush of mundane stuff doesn't take care of itself quite as readily. I can't just dash out leaving the laundry or bills untended, or the gas tank empty. I need to sleep more than 4-5 hours a night, too.
Plus, there are now multiple nearby events every month (example: within the last two months I've been to four - King Lear, Coronation, the masked ball, and May Day - and this wasn't a heavy schedule). So the breathless focus on The Upcoming Event is rather diminished when there are so many.
I'd like to get back some of the excitement about going to events. Not by cutting back to going only once a month, however. I still enjoy events a lot, so it's not a search for gratification from eventing. Yet I don't want to give up those quiet Saturdays when I have time to tend the house, make a complex dinner, see a movie, take a walk along the Charles River.... Maybe I'm just becoming a fogey after all. Hmmmmm......
Events and such ...
Heck, I felt a bit like that for Beltane, and that was the first camping event we'd been to in awhile. Once there and set up, however, we had a grand time (including the domus entropius chuckle hut ... we laughed a lot ...).
Sometimes just getting the impetus to get out of the house is hard. However, it's worth it, most of the time at least, or we wouldn't still be playing this silly game. All that rambling probably doesn't help much, but there you go. <g>