So, a couple of very different topics in this post. First is unrelated to the subject, second is very related ( Read more... )

Last night, I got in my first sparring match in Kum-do. It was quite fun. We had Master Jun show up, and after watching Bob and the-guy-whose-name-I-can't-remember fight, he had Bob and Beth fight, then decided to throw me in against Beth. Needless to say, I got my ass handed to me - Beth has only been doing Kum-do for a few years more than I, ( Read more... )

After you die...
Heaven

After death, you will exist in heaven. Everything and everyone you love will constantly surround you for all of eternity. You lucky scoundrel.


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Thursday at Kum-Do, Martian-Bob informed me that his goal was to have me trained enough in kum-do to participate in a tournament in Chicago on March 24th.  I'm really looking forward to it, but I'm also a little apprehensive - I've never even sparred before.  I've known tournament form attacks for less than a week (tournament form attacks are ( Read more... )

I need to find a good local punk or ska show.  Just feel like I need to get out and skank.  I've heard Gabes Oasis is a good place to go for punk - I'll have to see if I can find anything online about the genres of bands they have playing - they just list band names on their site.

I also have to find people to go with, which shouldn't be a problem ( Read more... )

http://kevan.org/johari?name=semanticdm is this crazy thing that lets me know what you think of me. Crazy, isn't it! Anyway, yeah, do it! Make me feel good about myself! Or crappy about myself, depending on what you select. Yeah! Goodness!

New poem at http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~tbowerso/story Read, comment, and love!

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The more I learn about being human, does it make me moreso human because I now know it, or does it actually detract from my humanness because I had to figure it out, rather than it coming to me naturally?

I think I suffer from some sort of social anxiety. Last night, I went out to Bo James to hang out with a bunch of people at work. There was one point where it seemed everything was going on at once, the conversations around me started to get really loud while the one I wanted to be involved in got quieter and quieter, and I just had to get out of ( Read more... )