While I love the idea of time travel, and while my bookshelves are jam packed with fantasy and science fiction books, I really don't want to live back during the medieval period. I truly don't want to fight for my life with swords and chains and clubs. And, if you want to get right down to it, I sure as hell wouldn't want to live any time before the invention of antibiotics. (This is a theme upon which my former father-in-law, a long practicing, small town OB/GYN loved to wax poetic. I'd never given much thought to life before modern medicine until I sat through some of his colorful dinnertime monologues.)

But that doesn't keep me from enjoying a good jousting match.