Intercon request

Just got through reading my All's Well That Ends character sheet, and I think I'm really going to enjoy this game. It's a character with a complicated plot, and I think I'm going to need to do some planning as to how to operate before I go into this game. I love scheming and strategizing in larps, so I'm very much looking forward to the challenges ahead of me. I very much want to go into this game with a strategy already in mind. I should reread the character sheet and do some thinking. I really need to schedule time to go take a look at the Hold Thy Peace costumes and borrow my old Dromio stuff; that should suit this character nicely. If I can get a hold of it, then my costuming for the con should be completely finished.

Also, it has come to my attention that my brother will be going home for his random Boston-area-school break the weekend of Intercon. Therefore he will be taking my car to go home on Friday. This is troublesome because it means our intrepid band of Brandeis congoers has one less ride option for those of us who, like me, will not be able to go up on Thursday. I had been hoping to just be able to drive myself and anyone else in our group who would be coming early Friday afternoon, but that's not an option. Anyone able to rideshare for that time? Any information and/or offers would be much appreciated.

Kosher for Lent

In about a half hour, Mardi Gras will be over and Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will begin. For several years now I gave up processed sugar, which was tough but good for my health and weight, and I always managed to make it. This year, however, I'm trying something different. Very different, in fact-- I'm going to keep kosher.

Now, I'm not the biggest fan of kashrut; I have enough issues about demonizing food without doing it for reasons that are even more arbitary. But since it's part of the lives of some of the people who are most important to me, I'd like to know what it's like to live with. I expect it will be a pain at times-- I do love me some pork, shellfish, and butter in pretty much everything --but I actually don't think it will be that hard. Cooking for and eating with Jared as much as I do means I usually stick to kosher food anyway so we can share. I can't remember the last time I cooked a dish that wasn't kosher except at home with my parents, so it's not like I don't know how to manage without resorting to the trayf.

As to the rules I'm going to stick to, I'm planning on going with what I gather is a fairly mainstream standard of kosher. I won't mix meat and milk, and I'll wait at least a half hour after eating one before I eat the other. While I will abstain from pork, rabbit, shellfish, and all other trayf animals, I will not worry about whether or not it's certified kosher meat. I am also not kashering my kitchen. I do know how to keep a kosher kitchen, as I help Jared to do so in his own kitchen at grad, but at Elsinore it's not practical and we don't have enough dishes for that. This roughly the standard that Jared keeps, so it's the one I am most familiar with.

It's certainly a sacrifice, but that's in the spirit of Lent. And hey-- Jesus most certainly kept kosher; he was the best Jew of all time. :-D