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( List mostly for Tori's benefit though all nosy bishes can take a lookCollapse )

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One of the trickers broke his nose at training today. He went for a round-off, failed and his knee ended up where his face was. Crunch.

That, ladies and gents, is why I won't be delving into tricking for a little while longer.

5 sessions in and I've gone from being terrified of vaulting not being able to vault to successfully pulling kongs over about 4.5' obstacles. Considering I'm only 5'2" myself, I'm pretty proud of that for progress, and I'll definitely be joining the guys for outdoors training when the weather stops being shit.

Last week I played with wall runs a little. I've never tried running up a wall before. No idea of the technique or anything, but I was able to reach about 8ft up the practise wall we have set up in the gym. God, it's been a while since I've been this gushingly excited over anything, but I am so psyched about parkour you have no idea. And I was the lazy, unfit, unathletic girl in school who was always one of the last picked for anything. What happen :I

I leave you with the best definition of parkour I have found on the webternets.

Parkour: "A style of movement developed in France to insure that they could flee in any direction, at any time."

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Oh my god my lightbulbs keep exploding and it's terrifying halp
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Especially when I'm reading creepypasta at 2am seriously

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Possibly in relation to freerunning/karate but not the result of an injury I remember, my foot has been ridiuclously painful for about a week now. It's fine when I'm sitting, resting or even standing with weight on it, but the more I walk the worse the pain gets until it's overpowering. I'm off to doctor's later today to get it sussed.

Also I ache after yesterday's vaulting sesh. My thigh muscles are crying at me and my elbow is just like YOU HAVE NEVER MADE ME WORK THIS HARD WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

LIFE IS GOOD

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gillo gave me the letter B. What a hard letter.
OR SO I THOUGHT BEFORE I REALISED I COULD JUST ADD "BRO" TO THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, PART 3

Bros: I got lots of bros and seeing them always makes me smile. I don't get to see them nearly as much as I should, but hopefully this shall soon be rectified.

Brobots:

ROBOTS EVERYWHERE AND ALL OF THEM ARE BROS oh my god Rung what are you doing go home you are drunk

Bromance: The display of which has convinced pretty much everyone we know that gs_disaronno and I are actually in a lesbian relationship.

Brorunning: by which I mean freerunning. I've recently started attending freerunning/tricking classes, though if we're being technical I am more into the parkour side of the sport and definitely want to work on my vaults and wall-climbs before I start on flips.

/b: but I don't think that's really a reason to be cheerful.

GOOD GRIEF THIS IS A REALLY HARD LETTER. THANKS gillo.

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Yeah stuff is happening. I have a million deadlines because deadlines are cool except not when you have to rely on other people to make them. Doc's is taking over six weeks to get urgent records to me which means I may actually miss an application deadline because of it, which sucks.

Dissertation results come on December 12th. I am becoming nervous.

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Yes guys I am still alive.

My life has been a string of deadlines for the last few months. Now that I am deadline-less, I am compensating by creating imaginary deadlines.

There is a list of things I want to get done. Will probably post a progress or something when I am sure I am going to actually do it all.

At the moment, work is kicking my ass. Halfway through 8 straight days in a row and I am getting pretty sick of customers tbh :O

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It's my birthday today and I'm still ill. Had a bad viral chest infection for the week since Auto Assembly, and if that wasn't enough, my friend accidentally elbowed me in the throat at AA and bruised my windpipe so stuff like breathing and swallowing has been a pain anyway.

BUT.

It's time for a MOTHERFUCKING RECAP POST.

WITH PICTURES.



( LET'S DO THISCollapse )

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So I took this from mmouse15 because the way to fix a dead voice is talking. I am still getting over Auto Assembly which was beaut. Photo recap post is definitely coming because what an awesome weekend.

In the meantime, experience this.


Record music and voice >>

Meme Questions

1. Your name and/or username:
2. Where you're from:
3. The following words: aunt, roof, route, wash, oil, theater, iron, salmon, caramel,
fire, water, sure, data, ruin, crayon, toilet, New Orleans, pecan, both, again,
probably, spitting image, Alabama, lawyer, coupon, mayonnaise, syrup, pajamas, caught,
orange, coffee, direction, naturally, aluminum and herbs.
4. What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
5. What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
6. What do you call gym shoes?
7. What do you say to address a group of people?
8. What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
9. What do you call your grandparents?
10. What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
11. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
12. What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

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Damn man, this thing has been kicking around for a while. I'd forgotten about it. Is mah Johari window chaps so have a poke and leave a prod.

Meanwhile, in anticipation of the Jubilee recap post which I will be sure to post soon, have a picture of me chilling with the Queen.



We're totally best buds.

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Okay ladies and gentlepersons, prepare to feast your eyes upon the delectable delight that was my experience at Botcon 2012, which for the first time I experienced without any of my normal crew.

( It was a dark, rainy Wednesday morning when we departed from LondontownCollapse )

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There is a Botcon post incoming guys, I prooooomise. But first, I want the internet to know.

Simon Furman is my perfect girl.

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Coherent Botcon post incoming tomorrow after I have slept beautifully. Just flying by to say that shit was so cash.

What is less cash is that my AIM name is apparently suspended? Guess someone was on it spamming or something.

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Anyone who is rocking up Botcon, bitches best be greeting me while I'm there. I am spottable currently. My hair is a rainbow.

You know who you are ಠ_ಠ

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Somehow I accidentally signed myself up for a Japanese test over the weekend. Test is today.

My excuse is that the lady only talked to me in Japanese, so I only understood 4/5s of what she was saying. Still, I did sign the paper so that means it's my fault.

Off to my test it is then :V

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I just got the results back for the first of the three essays I did over Christmas (weirdly, it was the one with the latest due date yet is the first I have had returned).

This was for my history class and was along the lines of the other essay we had to do for that class in that we had to summarise and compare a certain number of published works on a certain topic without making an argument of our own.

I did three books and two articles on the period of Japanese Imperialism between 1895-1945, using:
- Japan's Colonialism and Indonesia, M. A. Aziz, 1955
- Japanese Imperialism 1895-1945, W. G. Beasley, 1987
- The Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia 1895-1945, J. M. Jennings, 1997
- Colonialism and Development: Korea, Taiwan and Kwantung, S. P. Ho, 1987
- Japanese Attitudes Towards Colonialism 1895-1945, M. R. Peattie, 1987

Of those, the Opium Empire is a very interesting book and would probably hold interest even to those not studying Japanese imperialism. Aziz' work is interesting for its relative neutrality considering the time it was published, but the others are mostly aimed at those who are already invested in the topic.

Anyway, we had 4000 words as a limit and it was damn tricky staying in that limit with so much to discuss, and it is incredibly hard to write an essay without an argument. I wasn't super confident about it when I handed it in, but by that time I never wanted to look at it again.

Final mark: 75

I'm fairly certain that's the highest I've ever got for a piece of work (under the English system, that is; in Japan I was getting 90s but those are pretty much impossible in Britland).

I have to come down off the ceilng omg omg omg omg

I will temper this by the response given by my religion lecturer when I mentioned I was nervous about my essay results: "well, you passed" does not do much to alleviate my worries.

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What is happening in my world chippity chaps.

> I will resume writing some fanfics. I swear. I will. I know exactly what I want to write, it's just getting it out in a way that satisfies me :I

> I must write a presentation about organ donation in Japan and why it is perceived so negatively (such as only 38 transplants being carried out between 1997-2004), due in two weeks.

> I must receive feedback for the three essays I handed in at Christmas without offing myself sob sob oh god

> I must plan and write my dissertation proposal. Depending on whether I can change the umbrella subject from international politics to history or religion, it looks like it might be the perception of death in Japan either in a historical or religious context.

> I have been playing Tales of Symphonia through again so I can get the ending with Zelos, as the first (and only) time I completed it, I had no idea the affection gauges existed so I got the default Colette ending, and I'm not particularly keen on Colette.

> I should make some headway on games that I have nearly but not quite finished, including Ocarina of Time, Baten Kaitos Origins and Tales of Symphonia 2.

> I must meet my lesbro's father in the hospital at 9 tomorrow morning sob sob I don't want to get up that early.

> I ought to book my Botcon tickets soon, as I think I have been successful in bullying at least one person to go with me :3