*grooaaaaaan*

okay, working out straight from 7am-5pm on Saturday and 7am-1pm on Sunday = not a good idea. Lordy am I in pain. But I did have fun and I learned a lot... I'm going to try to post pictures of my bruises from kioga and seiyo-jutsu practice... and doing forearm exercises with Tchjdaedn... *pokes at bruises playfully with a big grin on her face*

Nicole and I were tested by Shihan Andy Finley from Casper dojo. We both made a few mistakes, but passed anyway (yay!)... so now I need to fork over the dough for a green belt ($5, no biggie)...

I learned Kuwa(garden hoe)-kata and bunkai as well as applications with kioga (expandable baton) on Saturday. On Suday Karen and I watched the dan-test, which was absolutely amazing. There were several kata that all 8 of the testers did together that looked almost rehearsed. They were in perfect time with eachother and their uniforms were snapping. It was absolutely amazing. After the Dan-test we learned a nunchakku kata that Soke hasn't decided whether or not to integrate into our style yet, but it was fun. After that we went over Nijushiho (24 steps) kata, which most of us learned at the end of last Spring and I think he changed the counts on us... bu the does that... after that we did rock breaking. I broke two, aren't you proud of me?

Overall I had a fun weekend, but it also feels like I didn't really have one... I barely got my homework done and I'm in serious pain and in a state of brain-dead-ish-ness, but I had fun.

Edit 10:30 9/26:

My bruises, aren't you proud of me?










Edit 13:44 10/2:

My first broken rock... a soft-ish limestone...

I'm a little slow, but...

Yeah, yeah... I'm safely back at school and workin' my ass off for IT for not enough money... oh, well, better than not working at all, right?

The really depressing thing is that I've only got one class in my major this semester because I'm stuck in Freshie composition (ENGL 1010). I'm also taking POLS 1000, which fills my AM & Wyo Gov requirement... yes, I have to pass another bloody constitution exam; BIOL 1010, which is boring as heck, but I have to have it to take the upper-level ZOOL course I need to take my paleo courses; GERM 2040 at 8 in the fecking morning... but I'm surviving so far; and, my only Anth class, ANTH 2000 (Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology)... which fills my oral requirement, so guess what I get to do :D (not).

Somehow I got myself signed up to work 7am on Saturdays, hence why I'm posting right now (god I'm tired @.@)

It looks like my Fridaynight game this semester's going to be running the old d6 StarWars instead of V:tM so that Devin can play instead of GM and hopefully Dylan's game will start tonight, though I'll find out for sure from Kassidy at dojo this morning.

On the 23rd and 24th the karate group is having an international clinic hosted in the prep gym, which is gonna be awesome... and thankfully other Lab Assistants are picking up my shifts... just got to get rid of the one I'm doing now... I've already signed up to test and I'm going to work my arse off to get ready in time. This test I need 8 basic kata, 2 bo-kata, and 1 other weapons kata. I'll be doing Taikioku Shodan-Yondan (though I don't technically need yondan because it was created after I started, but I know it so I'll assume I need it) and Pinan Shodan-Yondan (I need to work the bunkai from Pinan Yondan and Taikioku Yondon still), then I'll be doing bo-kata (easy) and Shujino-Kun (needs some work), and for my other weapons kata I'm doing Sai Nidan (needs bunkai too). I've got a couple weeks and I prepped for my last test in less, so here's wishin' me luck. Gokyu here I come.

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