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It's not you, it's me...
Like a lot of people, I'm a little perturbed by the recent change in TOS here so I've decided that I will no longer be updating this account, though at present I have no plans to delete it - I'm still active (after a fashion) over on DreamwidthPlease let me know if you're making the move to Dreamwidth too, as I'm trying to avoid duplication between ( Read more... ) -
Spring has sprung...
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A miscellany
Ugh, norovirus. Well, that was Saturday - I had lots of things planned for my class but spent pretty much all day in a small circuit between bed and toilet, which was not fun at all. I thought it was food poisoning at first, but on the rare occasions I come down with that (last time, it was eating yoghurt without checking the Best Before date), as ( Read more... ) -
Not everything's about you, buddy...
Spent much of the morning throwing up, so ended up cancelling my Saturday class and spending much of the day in bed - this coincided nicely with two cycle races, one women's and one men's, so that was lovely. Of course, the women's got significantly less coverage (no surprises there!) and while it wasn't won by someone from the team I support, the ( Read more... ) -
Next verse, same as the last...
I'm currently in my 4th trip around academia, having started a teaching qualification last September which is (alas) going to continue for another 18 months because it's technically 'part-time'. Which would be fine if I wasn't already bored out of my gourd by pretty much everything to date. I managed to get a student loan to pay for this course, ( Read more... ) -
Whose bright idea was that?
Okay, so time for a recap on yesterday's first competition - those of you reading the previous posts may recall that, in a moment of masochism, I'd signed up to do both the beginners (fencing less than 12 months) and intermediate (less than 3 years) categories and therefore committed myself to a day of jumping about and waiting about, not ( Read more... ) -
The final countdown...
Sorry, this blog is probably going to be quite fencing-heavy for a while now. *shrugs* For some reason I'm finding it hard to concentrate on books and nothing has really grabbed me, while other than the
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First club competition, bruises and all...
Yesterday, it was our club competition, which was a new and interesting experience for me. I realised that one of the reasons I'm enjoying fencing is that it's just about me, rather than me-as-part-of-a-team which had been my main experience of sport before - I'd also played tennis before, but only on a casual basis, no real competition. But while ( Read more... ) -
The obligatory books & TV post, now in 2017!
I'm pretty much still exclusively reading SF and Fantasy, with the occasional non-fiction book thrown in (but very occasional) and these are the best of what I read in 2016:
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor, a first contact novel set in Nigeria
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin (though you need to read The Fifth Season first ( Read more... )
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor, a first contact novel set in Nigeria
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A follow-up post...
An update to this post: My boss has kindly rearranged my class schedule so I can enter the regional beginners competition in February, so that's going to be my first ever experience of fencing outside the club environment. I'm trying to get my fellow newbies to enter too, so I'm not completely alone there. I've decided to bite the bullet and enter ( Read more... )