Well, that was new and different

At Coronet this weekend, thread_walker won me a rose in the Tournament of Roses. It's been rather amusing to watch people react to the information that this is the first time in my entire 34-year SCA career that anyone has ever fought for me. It's been even more amusing to watch some people try to comprehend that I never considered this a lack. It made me overwhelmingly happy to have her do it, because it made her happy to do it.

(There have been a number of occasions over the years when I've wanted to point out to Certain People that one can live a perfectly happy and fulfilled SCA life without ever fighting or being fought for, but I mostly kept my mouth shut because I didn't want anyone to think that I was fishing for someone to spoil my perfect record out of pity.)