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callistotoni
1) So how did you and Etaine meet?
2) When you've graduated and spent all the time in Germany that you want, where do you want to settle back in the US? Do you want to settle at all?
3) I have no talent for languages, so I admire your talent. :-) What do the differences in English and German say about how differently those speakers' minds work?
4) Weightloss and maintenance I know (from personal experiance :-0 ) is a constant challenge. What words of advice would you give to someone starting a weightloss effort?
5) I love the sound of old english, and I think other people would find it cool too. Any chance you'd do a public reading of something in Old English at an SCA event sometime (given an interested audience, of course)? What would you choose to read?
1. It was Ducal in 2004. It was ridiculously hot and she was dressed in Germans and heading to the Folsom Faire I think. When I saw her I had been in the SCA for less than a year. I thought "Holy crap, she looks so cool. Way too cool to be my friend." We started talking, mostly e-mailing. Looking back on our friendship/laurel-apprentice relationship cracks me up. I didn't care about clothes until I met her. Never in 100 million years would I have thought that I would have been her apprentice because when we met the arts were so not my focus. I actually switched focus because of her. I think if people see us together we are sort of like the Odd Couple, pretty much opposites. She's usually all up in her 14th century hotness, while I'm up in my 16th century cuteness (I wouldn't call it hotness), and it extends to more than what we wear.
2. I keep thinking the midwest would be such a sweet place to live, specifically Missouri. Even its coldest isn't as cold as Nevada (based on Averages). One Feb it was so cold here, the condensation in the windows froze. Ucky! Right now I am drawn to warm GREEN climates. I am just so burnt out on Nevada. If we had stayed in California I would be burnt out on it too, but at least California had climate going for it. If I could ski or snowboard, I would probably also feel differently. I can't even ice skate.
3. I am really not sure it says anything important - in general I did find the Germans to be sincere and a little slow to warm up to strangers, but I don't know that the language has much to do with it. At first German seems to be so rule oriented, and it actually is, and when you are speaking German in Germany you are worried about the correct gender of the noun and oh man, you just goofed. But then you realize that a bunch of slightly less educated Germans use the dative case instead of the genitive case when it should be genitive, and it matters a little bit less.
4. It doesn't all just disappear during week one and that really sucks. Getting moving is important, even if it is just dancing around in your bedroom in your underpants for 10 minutes at a time. You can dance around in clothes too. Fruit is delicious. So are French Fries. One is more filling than the other.
5. Yes!! I would read a selection from The Battle of Maldon because this poem is based on an actual historical event and is freaking epic. Bryhtnoth (the freaking nub), let the vikings across the river even though his troops had them at a disadvantage. But for the love of battle (and his pride) he lets them cross anyway. Naturally the English get their butts kicked. They might have had a chance if someone didn't run away on their leaders horse. . . Byrhtnoth is shanked by a spear and to break the shaft he rams his shield up under it until it breaks and then rams his shield under it again until it falls out of his body. He is wounded again. He dies while thanking God and then the poem still goes on for approx another 150 lines. EPIC I TELL YOU. Plus it is fairly straight forward as far as syntax goes, unlike The Wanderer (which is also good but I hated translating it like cats hate water).
callistotoni 1) So how did you and Etaine meet?
2) When you've graduated and spent all the time in Germany that you want, where do you want to settle back in the US? Do you want to settle at all?
3) I have no talent for languages, so I admire your talent. :-) What do the differences in English and German say about how differently those speakers' minds work?
4) Weightloss and maintenance I know (from personal experiance :-0 ) is a constant challenge. What words of advice would you give to someone starting a weightloss effort?
5) I love the sound of old english, and I think other people would find it cool too. Any chance you'd do a public reading of something in Old English at an SCA event sometime (given an interested audience, of course)? What would you choose to read?
1. It was Ducal in 2004. It was ridiculously hot and she was dressed in Germans and heading to the Folsom Faire I think. When I saw her I had been in the SCA for less than a year. I thought "Holy crap, she looks so cool. Way too cool to be my friend." We started talking, mostly e-mailing. Looking back on our friendship/laurel-apprentice relationship cracks me up. I didn't care about clothes until I met her. Never in 100 million years would I have thought that I would have been her apprentice because when we met the arts were so not my focus. I actually switched focus because of her. I think if people see us together we are sort of like the Odd Couple, pretty much opposites. She's usually all up in her 14th century hotness, while I'm up in my 16th century cuteness (I wouldn't call it hotness), and it extends to more than what we wear.
2. I keep thinking the midwest would be such a sweet place to live, specifically Missouri. Even its coldest isn't as cold as Nevada (based on Averages). One Feb it was so cold here, the condensation in the windows froze. Ucky! Right now I am drawn to warm GREEN climates. I am just so burnt out on Nevada. If we had stayed in California I would be burnt out on it too, but at least California had climate going for it. If I could ski or snowboard, I would probably also feel differently. I can't even ice skate.
3. I am really not sure it says anything important - in general I did find the Germans to be sincere and a little slow to warm up to strangers, but I don't know that the language has much to do with it. At first German seems to be so rule oriented, and it actually is, and when you are speaking German in Germany you are worried about the correct gender of the noun and oh man, you just goofed. But then you realize that a bunch of slightly less educated Germans use the dative case instead of the genitive case when it should be genitive, and it matters a little bit less.
4. It doesn't all just disappear during week one and that really sucks. Getting moving is important, even if it is just dancing around in your bedroom in your underpants for 10 minutes at a time. You can dance around in clothes too. Fruit is delicious. So are French Fries. One is more filling than the other.
5. Yes!! I would read a selection from The Battle of Maldon because this poem is based on an actual historical event and is freaking epic. Bryhtnoth (the freaking nub), let the vikings across the river even though his troops had them at a disadvantage. But for the love of battle (and his pride) he lets them cross anyway. Naturally the English get their butts kicked. They might have had a chance if someone didn't run away on their leaders horse. . . Byrhtnoth is shanked by a spear and to break the shaft he rams his shield up under it until it breaks and then rams his shield under it again until it falls out of his body. He is wounded again. He dies while thanking God and then the poem still goes on for approx another 150 lines. EPIC I TELL YOU. Plus it is fairly straight forward as far as syntax goes, unlike The Wanderer (which is also good but I hated translating it like cats hate water).
