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I'm now sporting several large blisters on my hands and feet from kendo practice, but I have enough endorphins going that I don't really care at the moment. I think I made good progress today in terms of coordination and sensei agreed with me. When I started I was having breathing difficulty but halway through I seemed to get a second wind and was able to breathe easier and felt myself get suddenly a lot more focused. Once school gets out I think I'll be able to go more regularly and have more time to practice between classes. Got hit in the head without armor accidentally by the shinai due to a miscommunication (IE whether I was supposed to go on his right or my right) but no harm was done. The guy I was practicing with was very helpful and was pretty patient with me and didn't mind if I had to ask him to repeat the directions again. I guess newbies get cut a little slack especially when they don't know half the terms, which is good. So far they've been making an effort to explain what's going on as much as possible without slowing everyone down. And once someone else new joins I'll get to help them and all will be good. ^_^

I also got Dewey, the guy who sold me the Prizm (who's nickname appears to be "Babycar" at this point, which just seems to come naturally to me) fixed the seat belt on indicator light that had been malfunctioning and annoying the hell out of me. He appologized because the seatbelt now doesn't retract as fast as it did, but that's fine with me. At least now I won't have a red light flashing in my face all the time that I'm driving like before.

And when mom and I got home there was a deer in the yard behind the barn. The thing was munching nonstop and didn't seem to mind us watching it (if it even noticed us) and might have been a weanling that got the hoof from its mother given how skinny the thing was. *smile* One of the nice things about living in the middle of nowhere is that you get to see stuff like that on a daily basis.

Ooh, need to remember to buy bread for the Russian party tomorrow. Maybe I'll get garlic or something of the sort...

And as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls

Added two new icons after getting rid of two I don't really use anymore. I'm hoping that my mom will give me a paid account for my birthday. I think I'll get good mileage out of these two, especially the one I've labeled "Wiseass". Tee hee.

I've also re-applied to furuba_rating due to three factors: 1 being that it's been almost a year since I got stamped there and my personality has changed (most noticeably getting lighter/more self-confident) and I lost my original stamp. The third being that I honestly don't think I'm like Hatori, for the main reason being that he doesn't have much of a sense of humor and is more outwardly brooding while I'm more internal. So we'll just see how that works out. I also made a point there of not using any FB icons and not using my mood theme so as not to influence anyone's vote. It annoys me when people do that since it feels like it rigs the vote towards that character. Though it could be because they most identify with that character, but it still feels a bit like manipulation to me.

Oh, and also filling that thing out reminded me that I was meaning to put his picture up, of me and my new machine tentatively known as babycar, which I realized was what my mom called her old Corolla to distinguish it from the Prius when they were both here at the same time. I'm also bad at posing for photos, so I look very distant here because I didn't know what else to do.