I got my black belt today (officially, these things happen at a predetermined time of the year, regardless of when you take the exam ( Read more... )

I was going to start this with 'I don't know what the hell I'm doing up so early' but then I realized it's almost eleven. It feels like I barely slept, though, and it's grey outside and kind of chilly, which is nice for a change ( Read more... )

I'm a very light sleeper. Every little noise wakes me. I even woke up once because Cláudia was standing at the door to my bedroom and I felt *watched*. In the early hours of the morning, if I sense the cat isn't in bed with me, I wake up. And if I don't, she takes care of that for me by meowing in my ear, scratching things or eating moths on me. On ( Read more... )

I have just passed my shodan exam, three years after my dad started needling me to do it. So, I have a black belt in Aikido now (actually I don't, I hope my dad has an old one he can lend me). I have learned a lot in these three years, and I don't regret saying no when I felt I wasn't ready. I was struggling with a lot of things back then. Today, ( Read more... )

I am on vacation. I slept in till 09:30, and it felt good (and it's a testament to how much my lifestyle has changed that my body thinks 09:30 is sleeping in). I'm enjoying knowing the world in the morning. It feels like living in full days instead of half ( Read more... )

I just found a video of my birthday party on youtube (to be fair, it would have been a party whether it was my birthday or not). There's these people who throw theme parties in a place that used to be a goth glub called Limbo, which got closed down a couple of years ago and reopened last year under what I imagine is new management and the same fire ( Read more... )

I practically only draw during classes these days, but it turns out I end up drawing a lot, because if I'm not drawing my mind wanders and I don't pay attention. A couple of these were done at home, while chatting, having coffee. I haven't sat down to draw properly in ages. First one under the cut is a nude, warning for the poor people who can't ( Read more... )

Nevertheless, if sometimes children are born from intercourse with demons, this is not because of the semen emitted by them, or from the bodies they have assumed, but through the semen taken from some man for this purpose, seeing that the same demon who acts as a succubus for a man becomes an incubus for a woman. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), Summa ( Read more... )

I greeted the new year in the usual way, with a fairly large hangover. New Year's Eve was spent at home with Cláudia and Filipe. We had sushi and sake because we forgot all the stores would close early, but thanks to my mum there was a bit of champagne, and also beer, thanks to the good people at the gas station. We stayed in listening to music for ( Read more... )

Sweet fuck, my shoulder-blades hurt. Either I'm about to sprout wings or that guy I lifted yesterday was heavier than he felt. Dad's fault, really. If he hadn't started riling me up the moment I set foot on the mat maybe I wouldn't have gone straight to a combination of judo with Hulk-smash when my aikido failed. No, of course I would, subtlety isn ( Read more... )