Also working, also bored.

[alysten]

Comment and I'll:
a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your list.
g) If you want, post this on your own journal.

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[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

Hit me

[alysten.livejournal.com]

You were a herald, a fencer, and you seemed like a good human being to know.
Knowledge. You know a boat load of random, cool things.
You tell it like it is.
There are several, but they usually start out with "let Auntie Alys tell you a story".
How did you get started as a herald?
Of your current ones?

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

How did you get started as a herald?

I am a research geek. There's nothing I enjoy quite so much as plowing through books to find lost treasures. And one day I found this book on the history of British surnames . . . And then I decided to fix my own name to be period and accurate . . . And the rest was history.

If I had stuck with Gaelic, my name would have been Ailis inghean mhic an Toisich, but that was *never* going to get pronounced right, and Scots is so much simpler.

As for court heraldry, it was a case of one too many inaudible courts and the realization that after teaching people how to argue to real world courts, multiple years of singing and multiple years of theater, I could do better than some guy randomly dragged up there to be the herald when no one else would do it.