TMI Tuesday

I am randomly picking 20 from this list:
43, 26, 18, 93, 68, 82, 27, 75, 37, 10, 66, 45, 29, 63, 73, 71, 30, 97, 53, 16

43. Do you have any nicknames?
  The only one that's really stuck is "Toasty" but I do have a lot of nicknames. The most recent one is "Beauty and the Beast" thanks to one of my kendo sensei. 
26. Are you happy with the ( Read more... )

TMI Tuesday.......I haven't done one of these in a long time ( Read more... )

 So it's been awhile

Grad school is over now, I'm glad to be out.
I'll be starting my new job at the VA in two weeks, getting paid salary will be nice.
I'm moving into a studio a few blocks away in a month, it has a washer and dryer, super exciting.
I've been asked to go to the All United States Kendo National Championships in August as an alternate on ( Read more... )

 So Cleveland went rather well, if I can get ahold of a video someone took of one of my matches, I'll post it here. my shodan/nidan division went about as well as expected (I got owned) and teams didn't last long (our first match was against the team that got second and the guy who beat me is a candidate for the world championship in Italy next ( Read more... )

I'm getting terribly excited for the cleveland kendo tournament next weekend, this might be the first time I've gone and not tested for the next rank. It will be nice not having one more thing to worry about, I just sit back, relax, and enjoy the festivities for a change. Speaking of festivities, plans for this weekend may have been canceled but we ( Read more... )

 As promised, happy news! Yesterday was an amazing day, all the pieces have fallen together! I finally finished my midterms, woo-hoo! After pulling ANOTHER all-nighter, I took the test and felt really solid about my answers. Last midterms for the forseeable future! After that I got to come home and actually EAT something, do a little bit of work, ( Read more... )

This place seems to have become a depository for all the negative emotions I become afflicted with, next month I'll make a concerted effort to stop that and have more optimistic entries. For the time being, I need to clear my head so I can focus on what needs doing - mainly studying for my midterms (which take place at 10am tomorrow and 8:30am on ( Read more... )

 Writing this out now almost seems redundent since the throughts have been swirling around in my head....and might have even been spoken out loud in the car....but this is my attempt to make them coherent. I've been quite distracted recently, from everything. Being a big puddle of unproductivity does me no good, but as I consistently remind people ( Read more... )

 I don't get very many chances to just kick back and relax, there's usually something going on, or something that needs to be finished, or a deadline to meet. It's a rare day when I have absolutely nothing to do, but little moments pop up now and again and I do my best to take advantage of them.On tumblr you'll have seen what my most recent taste ( Read more... )

As if I didn't need one more thing to do, I've decided to take on another project. Thank goodness though, this one doesn't really have a deadline. I just want to finish it before I die. I'm going to read either the 100 most influential books ever written (according to Martin Seymour-Smith) or The 100 greatest books ever written (as according to The ( Read more... )