Geeking out!
On everything. Thought it might be nice to post something after two weeks of silence, heh.
Reading Othello right now. Generally not happy with reading things that're meant to be seen, but. But that's not the issue. I've had a gander at study guides - "Iago is a complex character; he hates Othello for ambiguous reasons that even he cannot explain." No. No, that's not complex, that's bad writing. (Shakespeare was an amateur. :-D) No self-respecting villain wakes up in the morning and contemplates how evil he is. To have Iago just going around playing the difficulty? Suck. :-p
Have my TKD test on Wednesday. I've been rallying to double-test for green belt in addition to green stripe. I've got everything down (except the terminology, which is meant to be blown off until the night before anyway :-p). So my sole problem is... I can't do Do-San in front of anyone. Master Stevens asked me if I wanted to stick around while the class did it. With me doing good in front of a mass of black belts. I bombed the first half entirely. Oy. Then it was just me and him later and I could do it then, if he hadn't called Keith up. I've never done anything with Keith before, and he was rusty, so that threw me off. So Master Stevens's faith in me? Shot. Grr. But I do do do know my patterns. It's just that everyone's geared up enough at the test to pee their pants and it'd be several times that with a pattern I'm not confident in. But otherwise it's like "I'm double-testing, double-testing, yay for double-testing... wait a minute, no I'm not. Dammit." It's just yucky. But I'm going to Do-San until I puke and we'll confer with Master Stevens tomorrow, oh yes.
Finally, Find a Grave is rad. Luckily, I haven't died yet, I checked a few minutes ago. Ben Franklin has though. And Emily Dickinson. So cool. :-D
Reading Othello right now. Generally not happy with reading things that're meant to be seen, but. But that's not the issue. I've had a gander at study guides - "Iago is a complex character; he hates Othello for ambiguous reasons that even he cannot explain." No. No, that's not complex, that's bad writing. (Shakespeare was an amateur. :-D) No self-respecting villain wakes up in the morning and contemplates how evil he is. To have Iago just going around playing the difficulty? Suck. :-p
Have my TKD test on Wednesday. I've been rallying to double-test for green belt in addition to green stripe. I've got everything down (except the terminology, which is meant to be blown off until the night before anyway :-p). So my sole problem is... I can't do Do-San in front of anyone. Master Stevens asked me if I wanted to stick around while the class did it. With me doing good in front of a mass of black belts. I bombed the first half entirely. Oy. Then it was just me and him later and I could do it then, if he hadn't called Keith up. I've never done anything with Keith before, and he was rusty, so that threw me off. So Master Stevens's faith in me? Shot. Grr. But I do do do know my patterns. It's just that everyone's geared up enough at the test to pee their pants and it'd be several times that with a pattern I'm not confident in. But otherwise it's like "I'm double-testing, double-testing, yay for double-testing... wait a minute, no I'm not. Dammit." It's just yucky. But I'm going to Do-San until I puke and we'll confer with Master Stevens tomorrow, oh yes.
Finally, Find a Grave is rad. Luckily, I haven't died yet, I checked a few minutes ago. Ben Franklin has though. And Emily Dickinson. So cool. :-D