Cowboy R and the Medievalist Society

On Sunday, I spent the day in much the same way as Saturday, but I lathered myself with sunblock first (and apparently didn't get it all blended in, as atensibilla was kind enough to help me with that), so I didn't get sunburnt any further. It's a pretty mild sunburn, as sunburns go, and I'm not in agony.

I did better with making sure I got people's names right in the two courts on Sunday. Which gave me cause to think. Not that I did better, but that I was doing something in court at all.

It's been just over a year since I went out to Crown Tourney to visit with raventhourne and was convinced that I should rejoin the Society for Creative Anachronism after a twenty-year hiatus.

In that time, remarkable things have happened. When I rejoined the Society, I hooked up with the College of Sankt Vladimir, They happened to be thinking about a populace badge, and I knew something about heraldry, so I offered to work on it. Which got me elected Herald of the College.

I went to a war, Southern Crusades X, and offered my Baron and Baroness my help for our own war, Highlands War... which, a few months later, ended up with me being the primary event steward for that war.

It's my belief that the amazing success of that war was down largely to Baron Christopher of Ered Sûl, to Lady Aoife and Lady Violet, but other people persist in congratulating me on the job I did. They seem surprised that a first time event steward could pull off such a large event.

When I came back to Tucson, I offered my services, figuring I'd get slotted in somewhere, as someone's deputy, and never be heard from again. To my surprise, the Baronial Herald was stepping down, and the leading candidate to be her successor was tied up doing something else... which again, meant that I stepped right into an office I've little history to prove that I could do.

But I think that I've done reasonably well at it, and I hope that as we go forward, atensibilla and I find ways to overcome the couple of minor challenges (notably the fact that I'm partially deaf) that came up this weekend.

In about ten months, I'm going to be stepping aside as Herald, so that the afore-mentioned primary candidate can step into the job. I hope that, when we reach that point, everyone will look back on this as an experiment that worked. And maybe then, I'll be someone's deputy, and never be heard from again.

Or maybe some other office will mysteriously open up at just the right time for me to step into it.