The Bucket O' Nothing

Had my first karate session for about a month and a half this evening - see, I went along for most of last term, but trying to do that and rowing got the better of me, and I gave up on karate for the last week. (That, and I couldn't find my KUGB license, which I need to hand in to be able to grade, that is, get my next belt.)

So. Today I discovered that I'm less flexible than I was last term, and that I seem to have forgotten how to do front stance properly... it doesn't help that I'm doing the orange belt syllabus for the second time now, and thus I feel that I have something to prove - after all, I've trained for about six weeks longer than most of the other orange belts. Shouldn't I be better? Perhaps I expect too much of myself... although I did learn something last term, which was the difference between "yokogeri keage" (side snap kick) and "yokogeri kekomi" (side thrust kick). It's all about the knees.

Enough of my rambling about karate, and onto the issue of the day. Anime! Hikaru no Go 62 was released overnight, and it was a good episode, too... the opening is still very silly, and the next episode preview was good. Goodgoodgood. I'm very much looking forward to the next ep. (Akira and Hikaru actually meet once more... which hasn't happened for a long time.)

Also a current issue is Laserquest. Now, some people may know this by the name "Quasar", or "Laser Tag", and I have a whole introductory paragraph that I just added to an email about it, which I won't repeat here. Suffice to say, it involves walking around a big darkened room, shooting at other people with lasers and trying not to get shot yourself. And I'm on the newly-formed committee for the newly-formed Cambridge University Laserquest society. (Or CULLS as it has been named - there's still a debate over what the other L stands for.) I ended up as secretary, which means writing emails to entice people to come along to the Sunday sessions - two hours, for only £8. It's a bargain! And my sales pitch is done.

So. I'm tired - have stayed up too long writing this Laserquest email - and have to be up for a tutor meeting at 9:15, and a DoS meeting at 10:30. Fun...

But hey. I'm listening to Fantasy again, which always cheers me up. So I'm tired, but bouncy. ^_^