So, how's this icon for a blast from the past? :p ( Read more... )

So, I am now half a purple belt. I was generally shaky on a lot of stuff at the grading, and only managed a half past. But it's still a purple belt! Major goofs: doing "the wheels on the bus" during basics because I was getting my hands confused when doing a rising block with reverse punch and... leaving my glasses on during the katta. The plan had ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty fun weekend. Friday was a "SIMS D*MMIT" day, which I greatly enjoyed. Simon, amusingly, has been playing piano at his son's house for three solid days. I'm starting to wonder if he's just planning to sit there until Amos and Helen GRADUATE. :p I played Luke's house a bit, he's boring right now, he just skills and goes to work as ( Read more... )

Wow, surprisingly tired from karate today. We did a blindfolded exercise, which is ALWAYS an adventure. And by adventure, I mean I flail a lot. :p And apparently body check. :p I don't do well blindfolded, especially since I have filtering issues so I don't hear the people moving over the other group giggling. (Apparently, their blindfolded person ( Read more... )

So, the convention? GEtting RIDICULOUSLY close. *flail* This was the focus of Saturday's staff meeting. :p We watched some pretty fun stuff at the club meeting afterwards. We started out with Fruits Basket, which is really quite cute. Then we watched Paradise Kiss, which I'm very taken with. So Vicki, Patricia, Sara and I are going to marathon it ( Read more... )

It's that wonderful time of year when iconmakers photoshop Santa hats on to unsuspecting characters. Why should I be any different? :p ( Read more... )

We're making slow progress on the spec labs of doom. We keep having sessions to chip away at the questions, but ACK the end of semester is looming. We shall overcome though ( Read more... )

Almost didn't make it to church this morning. I woke up feeling vaguely migrainey, but I decided to give it a shot anyway. It wound up working out fine, at any rate. :p ( Read more... )

Rainy Mondays are really not fun. It poured basically all day, which made going back and forth to campus unpleasant ( Read more... )

I've decided that the worst part of marking is when I have no choice but to give a REALLY bad mark. I still did it, but I felt bad about it. :p ( Read more... )