What a delightful weekend!
Mar. 30th, 2008 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaFriday night I hosted a spur-of-the moment party to welcome our visitor from the Canton of Eofowrick (Kingdom of Ealdomere), and despite the shortness of the notice, we still had a good dozen guests & way too much food! I wound up spending part of the evening helping one of the new ladies turn a king-sized sheet into a bliaut (some assembly required ;-) because she's got a very, very long waist, and therefore she needs a dress from a time when long waists were popular!
Saturday night was the Tasmanian Folk Federation's Masked Medieval Ball with the band Harlequin. http://harlequintas.googlepages.com/home As always, the dance was much fun! I was delighted with how many of the non-SCA folk present had decent attempts at costumes and/or masks. We did an announcement about the SCA and suggested that now that they have their costumes they might want somewhere else to wear them. I didn't do a count, but we had enough people that it was needful to break the circle dance into three concentric circles so as to have room to move!
I've spent time talking with the various members of Harlequin on any number of occasions over the past several years, but it was only last night that their singer and I realized that we'd also met at Uni, but didn't recognize one another out of costume! She is also doing a PhD, working on a project which involves looking at very tiny fossils on the scanning electron microscope (SEM). Said microscope is in the room through which one must pass to get to the electron microprobe, which I use on a regular basis. There was one afternoon when I was scheduled for the microprobe, but the operator wasn't yet ready for me, so I spoke to a lady using the SEM and she showed me the tiny fossils she was looking at while I waited. They say that it is a small world, but Tasmania is even smaller!
Now to devote what remains of the weekend to Uni work...
Saturday night was the Tasmanian Folk Federation's Masked Medieval Ball with the band Harlequin. http://harlequintas.googlepages.com/home As always, the dance was much fun! I was delighted with how many of the non-SCA folk present had decent attempts at costumes and/or masks. We did an announcement about the SCA and suggested that now that they have their costumes they might want somewhere else to wear them. I didn't do a count, but we had enough people that it was needful to break the circle dance into three concentric circles so as to have room to move!
I've spent time talking with the various members of Harlequin on any number of occasions over the past several years, but it was only last night that their singer and I realized that we'd also met at Uni, but didn't recognize one another out of costume! She is also doing a PhD, working on a project which involves looking at very tiny fossils on the scanning electron microscope (SEM). Said microscope is in the room through which one must pass to get to the electron microprobe, which I use on a regular basis. There was one afternoon when I was scheduled for the microprobe, but the operator wasn't yet ready for me, so I spoke to a lady using the SEM and she showed me the tiny fossils she was looking at while I waited. They say that it is a small world, but Tasmania is even smaller!
Now to devote what remains of the weekend to Uni work...