In deference to Sara, I now (belatedly) will complete this thing ( Read more... )

Ah, kendo. The most glorious sport in the world. For those who are unfamiliar, it's basically japanese fencing, focusing on the use of the katana. (Indeed, high-ranked teachers are required to use actual katana for performance of the kata.) If you want to know more about it than that, well, I would be very happy to tell you about it, at ( Read more... )

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Well, thanks to thursday63, I am compelled to complete this meme ( Read more... )

Well, in light of my upcomming travels, I'm staying up now to sleep in the car later. I think it will work. For those who aren't updated, the family is going up to northern Yellowstone (southern Montana) to do some cross-country skiing, and similar recreations. Since I'm up, I decided to take some tests that interested me... curse the memes. But ( Read more... )

Mmmm... yes... Crush them all! Crush them all, destroy those who stand in your way!

The Black Queen
You scored 3 Power-Finesse, 4 Leader-Follower, 4 Unique-Ordinary, and 2 Offense-Defense! It is said that still waters run deep, and this is to some extent true of you. You watch the backs of your minions, keeping them safe. You allow your ( Read more... )

It, in this case, being kendo. I don't get nearly as much practice in these days as I used to, what with college; that which I do get focuses around my visits to Mushinkan Kendo Dojo when I'm at home, so we might say that I get in 2-3 really good practices every 10 weeks, if that. It is odd, then, because I think I am fairly strong, at least by ( Read more... )

So, no matter how bad Tech administration gets--and they can be pretty bad at times--they have stopped short of being openly and flagrantly evil. It was this little gem that put it all in to perspective ( Read more... )

You know, it's been a long time since I updated this thing. Part of this is attributable to laziness, I'm sure, but at the same time, I'm not sure that there has been much happening. I mean, yes, midterms, some of which were more interesting than others, but who really wants to hear about those? ROTC is much different from previous years, now that ( Read more... )

What could go wrong?

First time I tried this, I got Innocence. Yeah, right. Now that I'm feeling better, and not putting so many things down, I have achieved an altogether more plausible result.


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