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Hello from Bjalfi!

Edward the Discalceate quotes Hal:
>  > It looked a bit dicey there for a minute, but [Court is]
>  > a tough place to say no....
>
>Which is precisely the problem I have with surprise awards. 
>
>I have a local "award" which I neither fit the criteria for nor 
>deserve (two different things). However being caught by surprise 
>doesn't exactly give one a chance to think about the matter.

I was given an AoA in absentia; some "interested parties" actually
tried to keep it secret from me until my scroll was ready.  I did
find out, but not until two months after the award was given.

On another occasion, earlier, some people had hinted about writing AoA
recommendation letters for me, at a time when I did not feel I had
done anything to deserve an AoA.  (I had JUST moved to the West, and
JUST been railr--er, appointed to a local office, but had only served
for a couple of weeks.)  I said then, in no uncertain terms, that if
offered an AoA I would not accept it at that time.

If these two events had happened together--say, the hints dropped about
the letters were too subtle or not dropped at all--the whole thing
would have been very awkward and embarrassing.  I would NOT have
accepted the award, and things would have been pretty messy.

---------------------  Bjalfi Thordharson/College of St. Katherine/Province of
 |\  | |\  |\  |// |       the Mists/Principality of the Mists/West Kingdom
 | > | |\\ | \ |/  |   David Greenebaum/University of California/Berkeley, CA
 |<  | | \ |   |   |   dgreen@athena.berkeley.edu, dgreen@garnet.berkeley.edu
 | > | |   |   |   |
 |/  | |   |   |   |   "I make mistakes, but I am on the side of good -- by
---------------------  accident and happenchance." -- the Golux