it feels like my back was twisted into a pretzel and then stomped on. oh wait... it was! argh!!

i'm thinking about going to judo this week. i've been going on and off the past year or so. money's been tight and i've been surprisingly injury free as a result of not going. ok, maybe it's not really all that surprising, but whatever. i miss the people at judo and i feel really guilty that i haven't been back in a while so... maybe i'll go M ( Read more... )

i did well enough at judo tonight to not care that i didn't hospitalize anyone. :) besides, the a-holes weren't there so i'm glad no one got hurt. the a-holes are usually the ones that cause them, anyway and i don't want to be in their stupid little club.

at judo last night, this new kid showed up. i'm not quite sure how to explain this kid... i'm imagining he was in his mid to late 20's, about 6'2" or so, dark spiky hair, about 160 or so... and he was either really high or nuts. you had to repeat stuff to him like... twenty times and each time he'd say back the wrong thing to you. if i said ( Read more... )

i decided to start a new flickr set devoted to my various judo injuries. while i'm WAY late on starting to chronicle them (broken nose, broken ribs, broken toes, sprained ankle, sprained thumb, stretched knee ligaments, broken shoulders, multiple black eyes, multiple scratches, bruises and general grossness) i figured better now than never. so, ( Read more... )

ok, so on friday it was john and jen's party. since it was at about 7pm or so i still had plenty of time to hook up my new hdmi cables to my dvd player and tv. after being a nerd about that for a while, i drove over to john and jen's and started with the socializing. i usually look forward to john and jen's parties because a bunch of my friends ( Read more... )

you know what i hate? i hate it when parents enroll their kids in a class they don't want to take. i really hate it, cuz it makes everyone else's time their a waste. instead of helping the kids who have a genuine interest in judo, i have to constantly stop the ones who aren't interested from jumping off the walls/punching each other/sniffing ( Read more... )

so on friday, i got to mr saito's dojo in birmingham early and started warming up with the other brown belt (his daughter) and the two younger black belts that i see there all the time. the senior yudansha (don and mr. saito) were talking and shuffling papers around and stuff. mr saito mentioned something to me about how i needed to fill some ( Read more... )

it's so dark and stormy right now i can barely see across the parking lot. r0xx0r!!!11 \m ( Read more... )

so last night after the warm up, jerry comes up to me and asks me what size belt i wear. i say a 4, and he says "ahh, good." puzzled by why jerry is asking what size my belt is, i open my mouth to enquire as to why he wants to know. before i can, he says "i bought your black belt a few months ago and it's been sitting around my basement. i ( Read more... )