Another 2 cents

There has been a lot of discussion recently on attaining Peerages and various ways some folks have been addressing this.
So for my input I found the following which has been going around the net in arts communities for awhile. I changed the questions to reflect the current discussion on Peerage and the frustrations some people have expressed about not being Peers.
Some comparisons are right on, others not so much.
If anyone has better re-writes, please add them!

HOW TO FEEL MISERABLE AS AN ARTIST IN THE SCA

1) Constantly compare yourself to other artists
Peers and other people pursuing the same interests.

2) Talk to your family SCA friends, Barony about what you do and expect them to cheer you on.

3) Base the success of your entire career on one project
Attaining a Peerage.

4) Stick with what you know.
no changes

5) Undervalue your expertise.
no changes

6) Let money award possibilities dictate what you do.


7) Bow to societal pressures.
no changes

8) Only do work that your family the Peers, your friends & Barony would love.

9) Do whatever the client/customer/gallery owner, patron/investor the Peers, your friends ask.

10) Set unachievable/overwhelming goals. To be accomplished by tomorrow.
heh, no change

and now for the weather

I'm still marooned, I can't get out no one else can get in.

I suppose I could sit back and enjoy my enforced vacation, but I am too much of an A type personality to do that. I probably wouldn't have driven to work today even if my car was accessable because the highway has visibility of 100 feet & that isn't enough for the serious drifting and blizzard conditions.

Snow plow guy didn't come yesterday, my guess is the roads he had scheduled to plow before mine were so difficult to clear that he underestimated the time it took. Today is worse than before, so I might ask him to wait until tomorrow to plow, there is still snow predicted Friday, but less wind. Yesterday I shoveled quite a bit, but the wind and snow filled in all my efforts.

While I won't say I'm panicing, I have run out of shredded wheat and am unable to get more. THAT is the kind of suffering I am going through.