Okay, ignore the date, it’s a real post.

For a lot of years, I was very careful to split my academic and SCA worlds. I was going to take my BA (then my MA) in anthropology and get my PhD, focused on a multi-disciplinary Archaeology/History and Lit study of Early Medieval Ireland. As such, I didn’t do Irish history in the SCA, because I didn’t want there to be anything that might bite me if someone I was working with academically didn’t respect the SCA.

*glances at her non-academic career, her age, her willingness to make the money of a PhD student at this stage in her life*

Yeahhhh, I’m increasingly accepting it isn’t happening, but what that means is that Ireland is no longer off limits for my SCA classes, and I’m excited that I’m doing my first run through of a new class at the Myrkfaelinn War Practice in June… The SCA is getting it’s own Drunk History class, with a focus on the Invasion of Ireland by Richard FitzGerland de Clare (Strongbow) in 1166. We’ll see how well it works, and if it goes well, I’ll be teaching it at war too (and once it’s been taught once and further edited, I will of course be posting it here!)

On a separate topic, I might have figured out a way to enter a competition (next spring’s Ice Dragon). Once I get a little further and have more to talk about, I’ll be doing semi-regular updates on that too.