Re: [EK] Operation Renaissance Persona

[BLorenz753 <BLorenz753@aol.com>]

Poster: BLorenz753 <BLorenz753@aol.com>

In a message dated 97-12-17 09:02:55 EST, schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
writes:

<< 
 I joined the SCA for the people, and to play a game.  Over the many years, I
 have made too many wonderful friends.  I say too many, because I cannot keep
 up with them all, no matter how hard I try.
 
 Frequently, when arriving or attending events, I spend some "face time"
 catching up with these friends, and enjoying their company.  Not just as
 part of a game, but as whole people.  "How is graduate school", "Is your
 mother feeling better", that sort of thing.
 
 Perhaps it is wrong for me to do so: but it's certainly something that I
 would like to continue doing.  Of course, someone just overhearing our
 conversation may sniff and think "if they don't want to play our game, why
 don't they stay home."
 
 I do want to play the game, and I do play it.  But sometimes I just want to
 say (as I did at the last event I attended) "Carl, how are you?>  I haven't
 seen you for a while at events, is everything alright?  You're working 50
 hours a week, and in school?  How wonderful, what are you studying?
 Computers?  How exciting!  I remember when... >>

   As I said in my original poster---there is no way to totally eliminate
"mundane" things from our conversations at events.  I, for one, could never do
that because I, like my lord Tibor, see some of my closest friends only at
events.  I wish to reitterate that I am only hoping that perhaps we can
eliminate *some* of the modern talk at events behavior, to perhaps "play our
game" a little more than we do.  Post revels are the perfect opportunity to
catch up on the rest of the mundane tedium (of course, I'm not really one to
speak, as my parents do not allow me to stay out late enough to attend post
revels...:-(

judith
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