I consider myself to be a bit of an amateur historian. Ask anyone who has been to my house and they can verify just how many books I have on my shelf that have to do with some sort of historical subject. I work at Academie Duello, which teaches swordplay, renaissance martial arts and is home to Vancouver’s only arms and armour museum. If you ( Read more... )

So my boyfriend left this math equation on my facebook wall:
x^2+(y-(x^2)^(1/3))^2 = 1

He then directed me to the link below and got me to graph the equation (do it!):
http://www.flashandmath.com/intermediate/implicit/implicit.html

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For the past year, I have been training at the world's #1 Western Martial Arts school here in my beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia. My main focus of study at Academie Duello has been the Italian rapier and the longsword. As of today I now start training to become one of the instructors for their kids program ( Read more... )

I'm the happiest I've been in a looooong time.

... and all things considered, my life is pretty wonderful on a regular basis so where I am right now is the usual multiplied by ten!

that is all!

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After a grueling weekend with the flu, I had to call in sick Monday and Tuesday from work as well! it truly did a number on me. On Tuesday night, however, the band was scheduled to play at DEUX BLUES and I was not going to let anything get in the way of me performing ( Read more... )

While at the AMAZING Gogol Bordello concert on Sunday I had a guy in the audience run up to me screaming "Hey! You're that girl from SNEETCH! Awesome!" He then high fived me and asked if the rest of the band was there ( Read more... )

I was asked back in the Spring of 2010 to be apart of mixed media event celebrating what would have been H.P. Lovecraft's 120th birthday.


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I have found that since leaving on Tour with my band this Summer that I have finally started incorporating stories and struggles in history into my writing. I have wanted to write songs and compose poems with more historical context for some time. I have always identified with the spirit of the bards, whose poetry and sagas were how information ( Read more... )

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