Ano Joshikou...

How's this for coincidence? I go into town to pick up some pain relieving patches for my arm (that I busted through a combination of swinging a shinai, grooming three uncooperative horses and cleaning out my closet) and I bump into two girls from my future kendo class! I wondered when I heard them talking and thought "Huh. That sounds like kendo terminology" and sure enough it's them!

But the best part was that when they figured out who I was they exclaimed, albeit very nicely and excited "Oh! You're that highschooler!"

*twitch*

That... highschooler? I guess there's worse things they could have called me but it still caught me off guard. But then again soon I'll just be being called by my last name in that class and need to get used to responding to "Callahan!" being shouted at me. They also assured me that the kendogi will be fine as long as it was from the placeh he specified (it was) and that the fact that I did research to figure out what they were doing will impress the sensei. So I guess my work was not in vain. ^_^

It was good to see them before I went... whenever I end up going. I'm definately going to make it Saturday if not Thursday.

And I'm definately feeling the icy part of this Icy Hot patch right now. And I smell like a coughdrop because of the menthol... Even more reason not to hurt myself since this thing is sticky and weird feeling. They definately meant the icy bit... I just hope the hot bit isn't too hot in that case...

How to be human

Not sure quite what I mean by that, but it seemed appropriate. I'm not particularly used to being told something that I was finally assured of yesterday by a close family friend.

"I give you the right to be human, to laugh, to cry, to be happy, to feel sad, to feel angry, and to make mistakes again and again and again."

I'd never heard that before. And I must say it was a relief.