A Few Things

[themegaloo]

My Valentines was...okay it was pretty brilliant. I had a lot of fun and gave Matt a card shaped like the TARDIS (hand-made, of course) with an invisible ink message that became visible when he pointed his newly-acquired (not via me) sonic screwdriver at it

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[overtsock]

Sharing the sad that there is no new White Collar this week. There are only a few shows I follow on TV and they all seem to be re-runs. Ho-hum. Is this an Olympics outage?

Also, I see you follow the Equestrian sports in the summer Olympics...do you/did you ride? I did show jumping for many many years (and am determined to get back to someday) although I dabbled in the dressage arena too.

[themegaloo]

Well, White Collar is the dog show, Chuck is the Olympics, everything else is....IDK? Beats me.

I did! A fellow show-jumper at that! I rode growing up, did the show jumping through high school, was on the Equestrian team in college and got bored with equitation and shifted to Western, did reining for a while. But in my heart, I'm a jumper.

[overtsock]

I opted not to do the eq team in college...I did do a little eq on the side of my show jumping career and found it kind of boring too. I missed the "really going for it" feeling, or something along those lines.

I admit I haven't ridden Western much, but I was always impressed by the reiners. They say it actually has a lot in common with dressage, which I can totally see.

In my head somewhere there is a Merlin/Arthur fic set in the equestrian world; Arthur is the kid who grew up with lots of $ and all the best horses, Merlin had to catch-ride and work to compete. Antics ensue.

[themegaloo]

Yeah I opted not to in grad school because I didn't think I'd be able to afford it. But that's exactly what happened with me having to go from a big circuit with mini prix's and gunning for it and turning on a dime to...nice and slow and going to the end of the ring over tiny jumps??? Yeah, not happening.

REINING however was a ton of fun! Especially on the horses that were really trained for it and could do the sliding slops and fast spins &etc. I really enjoyed that part of it and dropped the English competitions after a year of doing both.

I would LOVE to read that. IF YOU EVER DO WRITE IT AND NEED A BETA?? This is me volunteering.

[overtsock]

Oh EXACTLY. After doing the Jr's and Mini-Prix's and going for broke...well, eq can't really deliver on competitive fun and overall feeling. Plus, I didn't have the $$ to have a nice eq horse (and a backup, like some have) and all that jazz. You know how it is.

Haha, if I ever do write something I'll remember your offer :). I think part of me is worried I'd get a bit too into the horse world and would have to explain a lot of things I take for granted (like hunters vs. jumpers, terminology, competition basics, etc). Of course, that could also make it really immersive, so..IDK. Can you tell I've though a lot about this :P?