One step forward

At Mimdancer's urging, I saw a GP this morning.

He said that my self-diagnosis sounds accurate.

He told me of a local clinic dealing with this sort of thing, and tried to contact their triage officer (for want of a better term). He was busy, so the GP will get back to me today with details, and a referral if needed.




It was much more stressful than I thought it would be. I came out trembling more than I had been going in.



EDIT: The people the GP wanted to talk to aren't in today, and he won't be able to get back to me until next Monday. So another week of waiting.

SCA ranting.

Mimdancer has been keeping me updated with the goings-on on the Shambles.

It seems that it has been proposed that Fencers and Archers be allowed entry to the Knighthood.

And, predictably, the Knnnnn-ig-its have been throwing a collective hissy-fit.

‘But but but, then we wouldn't be speciallll!’ They whinge, and are, by account (and from Mimdancer has read out to me), throwing a most spectacular temper-tantrum.


Look, guys: the SCA has three peerages: A peerage for helping, a peerage for teaching, and a peerage for getting beaten around the head. Your (you knights) insistence that Fencers and Archers should be happy with the sops you decide to graciously allow them is, regrettably, entirely period. It's the periodicity of entrenched privilege, of immutable class boundaries, of political favour outweighing common sense and decency, of servants and untermenschen knowing their proper place.

It is the antithesis of Chivalric Behaviour.

And the suggestion of one individual that Fencers and Archers should just be happy with a GoA has been appropriately jumped on, I think, with people asking why, similarly, women shouldn't be happy with 60% of a man's salary.