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Ad Mundo Exteriore,
Not as exhausted as I was last week, though just as sore (and with bruises in the same spots--probably a sign that I'm doing something wrong). And apparently I did a decent job, though my form definitely flagged into total sloppiness sometimes. >_< Well, that happens at every practice anyway. My goal though is to try to figure out how to do the "stomp" correctly.
That's my problem with any sort of athletic activity. I know what I should improve, I can even visualize myself doing it correctly, but my body refuses to obey. There was once a time when I wasn't so uncoordinated but that was very long ago in the "height" of my ballet and tap lessons.
What's interesting is that although I joined kendo mainly as a means of getting fit, what I've learned really is willpower. I had no idea that I could be so tired and be in so much pain, but still be able to force myself to move. I guess the fitness will come slowly and painfully, but I'm really glad to find that I have this sort of strength within my lazy self. ^_^
The new layout for Have Faith is up! Go look! Sign the guestbook! Join the forums and post your own Winamp skins! Gah, the new coding makes me want to learn PHP.
I was walking today to deliver my first Expos assignment to my preceptor's office, which is in the Extension School all the way down on Brattle Street, and it was startling to find that how interesting it is to explore Cambridge. There's all sorts of streets that I've never traveled by, and all sorts of strange little stores and buildings that look intriguing. I've really been a hermit (sitting in my room, glued to the computer). I'd like to stay here during the summer at least once and properly explore the place. The houses are just wonderful in themselves, small and old and graceful in a way that old houses in New York fail to manage.
Oh, and I promised L.P. that some time this weekend we'll go looking for the Cambridge Public Library. Lamont may have an amazing collection, but it does not have the latest Terry Pratchett book. (Well, for L.P., it'll be more along the lines of Joyce Carol Oates or someone like that. Contemporary literary fiction snob.)
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tryogeru. "From the table in the corner, they could see a world reborn, and they rose with voices singing...And I can hear them now! The very words that they had sung became their last communion, on the barricades of war at dawn." (Let's hope I remembered those lyrics properly.)
...Tari
Post-script: I just checked my grade report. I got straight As! I have officially just survived my first college semester, with complete success. ::breathes sigh of relief::
Not as exhausted as I was last week, though just as sore (and with bruises in the same spots--probably a sign that I'm doing something wrong). And apparently I did a decent job, though my form definitely flagged into total sloppiness sometimes. >_< Well, that happens at every practice anyway. My goal though is to try to figure out how to do the "stomp" correctly.
That's my problem with any sort of athletic activity. I know what I should improve, I can even visualize myself doing it correctly, but my body refuses to obey. There was once a time when I wasn't so uncoordinated but that was very long ago in the "height" of my ballet and tap lessons.
What's interesting is that although I joined kendo mainly as a means of getting fit, what I've learned really is willpower. I had no idea that I could be so tired and be in so much pain, but still be able to force myself to move. I guess the fitness will come slowly and painfully, but I'm really glad to find that I have this sort of strength within my lazy self. ^_^
The new layout for Have Faith is up! Go look! Sign the guestbook! Join the forums and post your own Winamp skins! Gah, the new coding makes me want to learn PHP.
I was walking today to deliver my first Expos assignment to my preceptor's office, which is in the Extension School all the way down on Brattle Street, and it was startling to find that how interesting it is to explore Cambridge. There's all sorts of streets that I've never traveled by, and all sorts of strange little stores and buildings that look intriguing. I've really been a hermit (sitting in my room, glued to the computer). I'd like to stay here during the summer at least once and properly explore the place. The houses are just wonderful in themselves, small and old and graceful in a way that old houses in New York fail to manage.
Oh, and I promised L.P. that some time this weekend we'll go looking for the Cambridge Public Library. Lamont may have an amazing collection, but it does not have the latest Terry Pratchett book. (Well, for L.P., it'll be more along the lines of Joyce Carol Oates or someone like that. Contemporary literary fiction snob.)
Am in a Broadway mood, thanks to
tryogeru. "From the table in the corner, they could see a world reborn, and they rose with voices singing...And I can hear them now! The very words that they had sung became their last communion, on the barricades of war at dawn." (Let's hope I remembered those lyrics properly.)...Tari
Post-script: I just checked my grade report. I got straight As! I have officially just survived my first college semester, with complete success. ::breathes sigh of relief::
