2006-04-09

ursula: ursula with rotational symmetry (ambigram)
2006-04-09 05:27 pm

Heraldic weekend

This morning I slept as long as I wanted, then made coffee and brunch: whole-wheat pasta with eggplant, mushrooms, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes from my mother's garden, and myzithra cheese. Later I might make bread!

Saturday morning I got up early -- though not quite early enough to be on time -- to teach my class at An Tir Heraldic Symposium. Juliana of [livejournal.com profile] sue_n_julia was one of my two students, and we chatted happily for two hours. Then I found [livejournal.com profile] sablebadger, [livejournal.com profile] hanksan, and [livejournal.com profile] glasseye in the common room. [livejournal.com profile] hanksan gave me the pennon he made for me. It's gorgeous! It's made of red and black silk, with tails to flutter in the wind. I just need to find a pole to display it, though maybe in the meantime I should hang it on my apartment wall?

I took classes, too: online conflict-checking, and Countess Elisabeth's Graphical Heraldry class. She had some lovely slides, including a Scandinavian cushion with a heraldic unicorn motif and an illuminated manuscript with tree roots crawling all over the margins. Then there was feast, including a lovely artichoke pie with dates and raisins, though they weren't as careful about feeding the vegetarians first as they should have been -- not that I'm vegetarian myself, but I felt bad for [livejournal.com profile] glasseye. Z. didn't get to eat dinner with us young folk, which made me sad -- Countess Elisabeth dragged her away -- but [livejournal.com profile] aelfgyfu, [livejournal.com profile] hanksan, [livejournal.com profile] glasseye, and I discussed summer plans, and it was great to talk to [livejournal.com profile] sablebadger, whom I haven't seen since September!

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