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Lowell House, on the Feast of St. Josaphat

The beginners put on bougu today! ::cheers:: They looked really cool, and our dojo really looked like a dojo. ^_^ I actually got to hit some of them too. Today was do practice, not too rigorous, but a really good refresher. I also really need to work on my stomp. I could hear it be out of sync--I'd hear the stomp and watch my shinai hit a second later or vice versa, and it was so annoying! Maybe I'm overthinking it. Anyway, it's frustrating when you know your body should move in a certain way but it refuses to cooperate. Also, I think I'm slowly getting a better grasp (hah! pun!) of tenuchi but I keep squeezing too quickly and wasting energy. Hm.

Anyway, I know I said Friday would be devoted to drabbling, and if one of you reply before I go to sleep, maybe I will write a drabble today. Anyway, I wanted

memlu to write me something, so I was obligated to follow up by participating in the meme myself:

- Comment and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and write you a 100 word drabble.
- You have no say in what I write you!
- Put this in your journal so I can do the same.

I guess this means that the whole weekend will be devoted to drabbling, instead of just Friday night. Heh. I am going to take this weekend easy because I know I did really badly on the chemistry exam this morning (I left too many questions blank to not have done badly). I don't know my score yet, but the TFs have finished grading (already!), and the class mean is a 52. I'm officially disgusted. I also feel pretty sure that I won't make average (I didn't last time, and the bad feeling I have about this hourly suggests that I won't this time either). Why am I taking this class? Oh right. Yesterday, as I was studying (since 9:30 in the morning), I told myself over and over, "You're going to learn prebiotic chemistry. You're going to learn prebiotic chemistry. You need to know this stuff for prebiotic chemistry." It's going to be my mantra, I bet, because otherwise, I would have no motivation to learn the material in this class. (Well, no motivation other than filling concentration requirements.) I don't need to know organic chemistry at this level for subsequent courses, but I do need to know it if I want to understand Prof. Evans' long-promised lectures on prebiotic chemistry, which is a topic I'm fascinated with, even if I'm sure I'm too incompetent at chemistry to ever pursue research in that area.

Er, what else? I'm going to change, eat food, and watch Evangelion! And go to sleep early! I'm determined to build up a good mood by Monday so that when I get my exam back, I won't sink into depression.

Yours &c.

Post-script: I did de-stress pretty thoroughly in kendo today. I was going up against one of the co-captains during kirikaeshi (he's the one that whispers "killer" at us all the time), and he screeched his usual loud kiai, with his typical "come on, be a killer, be scary" expression. So I thought, "Fine, I will be scary, as scary as I can possibly be. I'm going to do the scariest kirikaeshi I'm capable of!" And well, I don't know if it actually was intimidating (probably not), but I felt really exhilarated after that. ^_^ Is that what an endorphin rush is supposed to feel like? (Psst,

tryogeru, you, me, next time you come to HRKC practice--if ever--and you can tell me if it is actually scary or not. ^_~)

Post-post-script: Man, I sound like a Shounen Jump protagonist.

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Since I'm writing you drabbles can we forgo the meme? ^^;; I want you to write me somethiiiiing . . . <3333 And if you doooo, I know I have no say, but . . . *hint*Shaman King or Bleach*koffkoff* ^___^;