2001-01-18 - 16:09:48
Historical meeting; historical romance

The million-dollar answer was A. Laetitia Casta. I applaud anyone who knew that answer without having to look it up. =)

The SCA meeting last night went pretty well. We arrived about the time they were starting, and we sat in the back while they spent a couple of hours talking about business. I was glad we weren't earlier ... this way, I got to sit nearly unnoticed and absorb the mood of the room. By the time the meeting broke up and people began to talk to us, I was comfortable enough to be myself (well, except that I was nearly asleep from exhaustion).

I'm really not sure what I'm doing here anymore. I still like the format, and I enjoy seeing the numbers on my sitemeter climb (ego boost). I might change it to a password system, though ... and I won't be giving the password out, no matter how sweetly anyone asks. No offense intended; I would just like a little more freedom to experiment with the format, and to air issues that the half-dozen or so folks that I know in real life who read this have no business reading about.

I'll decide sometime this week whether or not to do that. I could, of course, change to another site and leave this one hanging ... but I dislike cyber-littering. =)

Another novel idea has come to mind ... I think I mentioned a week or two ago that I watched three Jane Austen movie adaptions in a row (Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility) and that led me to investigate the online Jane Austen world. I stumbled across the Republic of Pemberley first, and to my surprise discovered that dozens of Jane Austen sequels exist. However, none of them appear to center on the last unmarried Bennet sisters ... Kitty and Mary.

Austen herself says of their future only that Kitty "became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid"; Mary "was obliged to mix more with the world, but she could still moralize over every morning visit" and, due to her sisters' absence, she "was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own".

So what really happened to them afterwards? *shrug* I'd like to know ... I hear several sequels at least mention one or the other of them, but they are not focussed on, neither are they given much hope of turning out well. Why shouldn't they have a chance at a good future, too?

*yawn* Enough for today; Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's back to work I go ... *whistling softly*