Celebration of St. Cecilia
Nov. 28th, 2010 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaThis weekend's SCA event was much fun! I didn't get much sleep this weekend though. In order to catch my flight on Friday morning it was necessary to leave my home around 03:30, to catch the 04:00 bus to the airport. Having lots to be done before I left, I got only a short nap before leaving. I did, however, manage to nap during the 1 hour bus ride to the airport, and again during the 2.5 hour flight. I landed in "Stockholm" around mid-day (the RyanAir airport is actually 1.5 hour bus ride from there), and was overjoyed to see that unlike Milan, where it was raining, there was Snow in Stockholm. This made for a much more pleasant walk (~30 min) to the home of the event autocrat than my morning walk had been. When I arrived I was put to work in the kitchen, and spent a very delightful afternoon visiting with people there and making stuff. The crust for the apple tarts is RICH. One huge block of butter (full kg?) to 5 dl of flour and 3.5 dl of sugar. Tasted yummy (I cannot resist eating pie crust dough, or short bread, which this is more like), but it was amusing to look into the oven and see that the crusts were literally boiling in oil when we baked them. Alas, I never did get to try the tarts--they were served with the evening banquet, and I'm not interested in food at that hour.
After the kitchen work to be done had largely wound down I helped folk load a car of stuff to go to the event, and walked the few blocks to the site with one of the other helpers. Met a few people, and enjoyed listing to people practice singing in the stairway (this school has Amazing acoustics in the stairway), but was so tired I wound up going to sleep before 10:00pm, and slept through till 07:30. Saturday during the day was all classes--I attended the morning singing class, and then switched to the intermediate dance room, where I discovered that they'd had to make some changes in the schedule. One teacher was sick and couldn't make it, and the other stuck in Frankfurt due to weather problems or something cancelling her flight. However, there were enough people willing to cover that we managed to keep dancing all afternoon. I confess to skipping out on the second half of the galiard variations class because I needed a nap.
I did my yoga during the break between classes and the evening ball. However, having failed to do my 1000 the day before I left, I opted to keep luggage light and didn't bring a 1000 to read. Felt kind of naughty and kind of nice to not have that responsibility on the weekend--made me feel much like I did at events back before I started that PhD project, when the SCA was the largest single time commitment (with the possible exception of sleep). The evening ball was much fun-we did many dances I am very fond of (some of which I'd not done in years), between dancing there was much interesting conversation with a variety of people, and we even got a back-rub chain going at one point.
My flight home was scheduled for 09:30, which gave me a choice--the 05:00 bus, or the 06:30 bus. Given the 1.5 hour drive to the airport I opted for the earlier bus--the 06:30 bus would have arrived before scheduled departure, but if there were any delays at security I'd risk missing the flight, and Ryan Air won't hesitate to take off without people who are in the building but not at the gate. However, as it turned out, I could have taken a much later bus--due to weather at the airport my flight didn't actually take off till after 14:30! However, I used the opportunity to get naps on the bus and at the airport, so I'm not as tired as I might have been. I now have a few days to do as much work as possible, and on Thursday evening I take off to the UK to attend an SCA event there.
After the kitchen work to be done had largely wound down I helped folk load a car of stuff to go to the event, and walked the few blocks to the site with one of the other helpers. Met a few people, and enjoyed listing to people practice singing in the stairway (this school has Amazing acoustics in the stairway), but was so tired I wound up going to sleep before 10:00pm, and slept through till 07:30. Saturday during the day was all classes--I attended the morning singing class, and then switched to the intermediate dance room, where I discovered that they'd had to make some changes in the schedule. One teacher was sick and couldn't make it, and the other stuck in Frankfurt due to weather problems or something cancelling her flight. However, there were enough people willing to cover that we managed to keep dancing all afternoon. I confess to skipping out on the second half of the galiard variations class because I needed a nap.
I did my yoga during the break between classes and the evening ball. However, having failed to do my 1000 the day before I left, I opted to keep luggage light and didn't bring a 1000 to read. Felt kind of naughty and kind of nice to not have that responsibility on the weekend--made me feel much like I did at events back before I started that PhD project, when the SCA was the largest single time commitment (with the possible exception of sleep). The evening ball was much fun-we did many dances I am very fond of (some of which I'd not done in years), between dancing there was much interesting conversation with a variety of people, and we even got a back-rub chain going at one point.
My flight home was scheduled for 09:30, which gave me a choice--the 05:00 bus, or the 06:30 bus. Given the 1.5 hour drive to the airport I opted for the earlier bus--the 06:30 bus would have arrived before scheduled departure, but if there were any delays at security I'd risk missing the flight, and Ryan Air won't hesitate to take off without people who are in the building but not at the gate. However, as it turned out, I could have taken a much later bus--due to weather at the airport my flight didn't actually take off till after 14:30! However, I used the opportunity to get naps on the bus and at the airport, so I'm not as tired as I might have been. I now have a few days to do as much work as possible, and on Thursday evening I take off to the UK to attend an SCA event there.
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Date: 2010-11-29 01:56 pm (UTC)You said you're not interested in food at that hour - does that mean you don't generally eat in the evening? I also noticed you call the meal a "banquet". Folks in Ealdormere used the word "feast" pretty ubiquitously; a habit that's been annoying me of late since I think "feast" has fairly specific denotations and connotations beyond simply meaning "evening meal". Do you ever attend SCA "feasts"?
The story about the stairway singing made me smile. Years ago, my siblings were attending a CIY conference and discovered that the stairwell had excellent acoustics. Afterwards a certain song with four-part harmony was forever known to us as "The Stairwell Song."
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