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Mar. 28th, 2003
The Wild Adventures.
Mar. 28th, 2003 10:00 amLest you think I only post quizzes, let me relate the last week here. How did I fit so much in?!
Monday night went perfectly. Plenty of pasta, yummy meatballs, ginger ale, cherry cordial ice cream, and marble cake with yummy icing. After desert we even indulged in the last bottle of Chaucer's mead that Russ and Naomi had brought us. (and it was really good!)
Everyone was happy to be over a our place, to not have to cook or clean, and just enjoy themselves. I had really worried for nothing. The table held up, as well as our other furniture, and I had time to mop before everyone came so the house smelled really nice. It was nice to have my grandparents, parents and brother all over for dinner. Sounds like we're going to start inviting other parental units to come visit as well.
My dad started laughing when he unwrapped Monty Python's Holy grail, mimicking the wizard smiting scene, and talking about air laden swallows. He might have to come over to our place to watch it, but he'd never get the movie from mom, or even for himself, likely, so I'm glad I got it for him. My brother got him a borders certificate card and... A big box of 'Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans', with flavors like ear wax, grass, and vomit, as well as tastier ones. My brother convinced my father to read the Harry Potter series, which he did, all four books in the span of a week, and enjoyed. This makes it the first set of books the three of us have all read. Dad seemed surprised to get Bernie Bott's beans, very cool. My grandparents got him a cd of patriotic marches, and Mom got him some nice shirts, all in all a decent haul. I love my family.
I've been playing a good deal of Mech Assault lately, having joined a female battalion(4 lances, 16 players) of really awesome gamerchicks from Xbox Live! Our battalion is in the House of Tyr and is full of really talented, fun, amazing women! My husband joke's that we're boyhunters, but the truth really is that it's always more fun to play in a game with other women as passionate about video games as I am, and we all work really well together too! The House of Tyr is an organization of gamers who like to have a good time (men and women) and they tend to police within pretty well, they have a code of conduct that basically asks everyone to be pleasant, and they remove people who fail that code. It means that we can easily find lots of great people to play with and against.
Wednesday marked my first ever figure drawing class! It's a mini-course down at the union, taken with Maciek (we took an art course last semester too). It was really cool, though I have lots to learn. Our teacher is a bit quirky, but nice, and the model was a college student, very cute, very nice, with good poses. I kinda feel like my 1 mins were better than my 20min sketches, though some of my 10min ones were ok. So much fun, and I just know it's going to improve my overall drawings, helping to know how bodies look, and what's possible in a pose. (I was at a very strange angle for one, foreshortening city! where did that foot come from!) Maciek was buzzing along happily, it's good to be in a class with him again. And nice to be forced to draw each week again. I used charcoal the whole time, it looks like I've loosened up my sketching style since last year, which is nice. I'm so glad I'm able to take this course, I had a patron. My father made sure I could take it. I feel so loved, and blessed to have a father who cares for me to help pay for my interests, my skills.
Last night, after having some connection problems on XBL, I went down to Emerson Elementary for the second week in a row to juggle with the http://www.madjugglers.com . Last week I came too early and had to leave before anything really got started, their webpage notes they start at 6:30, which is a fallacy, they tend to come in around 7:30. I arrived about 7:14, and got to meet Mark, Axel, Sam, Melonhead (Again) and I think I met a Mike, and a Gray?. Mark was really nice and gave me some tips on learning to juggle three clubs, I got to 6 catches which he said was 'Success right there, you only need 6 catches to be official'!!
During the night I think I made it past 6 catches several times, it's only a matter of practice before everything lands in the right place. The secret to juggling for me is to find the peace inside and deny the panic. The panic exhibits in all sorts of twitchy movements and jerky throws, the peace allows things to land, even on the ground without seizing up, or over exerting. I can find that peace when I juggle balls, things just settle into place. Talking with Mark later, he says that yo-yo'ers call that the 'State of Yo' or others might call it the Zone. It's nice to know it's close, I'll find it, and soon be juggling clubs! I'm a long way from learning how to juggle knives, and even further from the insane club passing they were doing on the other side of the gym, two rows of people facing each other, and then moving like a slow square dance, moving inside and out, still passing clubs to each other. Amazing!
Later Melonhead showed me a few more tricks for 3 balls, and then did some steal's from my basic cascade, taking from the side and dropping it over on the other side, or throwing it under one of my arms, lots of fun!
Juggling is tough to get started on, I'm sore all over, my quads and glutes did a lot of bending and crouching to pick up errant clubs. I juggled from 7:45 to 9:30 when we stopped. This is much more juggling than I'm used to, even though I've been trying to practice a little everyday. My new rule is, if it feels like exercise, it is. My arms are sore from the work, and from the bruises, if things are thrown correctly, you get no bruises. I'm sure I have less bruises than when I was trying to learn clubs a few years ago.
I knocked myself pretty hard on the left temple last night, I have a nasty bruise forming there. Flipped the pin the wrong way and the handle rapped me hard, I was zonked for a few moments, but obviously not enough for any kind of concussion, or stars.
The end of the night was a game of escalation endurance, everyone stands around the edges, and starts juggling their second hardest or newest skill on balls or clubs, if you drop you're out. The last person standing has to start the next round on a harder trick, while everyone else can stay with their second hardest. I even won one round doing tennis with 3 balls, remember the one I learned from Vlad at Bardic! Then I started the next with a reverse cascade, but dropped pretty quickly. We went four or five round, it was very cool.
Ah, tonight is book reading and *new* Buffy over at the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smugaotto's place! I thought I was going to miss out, but my weekend plans shifted, yah! I missed last week, had a lovely dinner over at his Moms. And! I have a half day today. What a weekend!
Monday night went perfectly. Plenty of pasta, yummy meatballs, ginger ale, cherry cordial ice cream, and marble cake with yummy icing. After desert we even indulged in the last bottle of Chaucer's mead that Russ and Naomi had brought us. (and it was really good!)
Everyone was happy to be over a our place, to not have to cook or clean, and just enjoy themselves. I had really worried for nothing. The table held up, as well as our other furniture, and I had time to mop before everyone came so the house smelled really nice. It was nice to have my grandparents, parents and brother all over for dinner. Sounds like we're going to start inviting other parental units to come visit as well.
My dad started laughing when he unwrapped Monty Python's Holy grail, mimicking the wizard smiting scene, and talking about air laden swallows. He might have to come over to our place to watch it, but he'd never get the movie from mom, or even for himself, likely, so I'm glad I got it for him. My brother got him a borders certificate card and... A big box of 'Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans', with flavors like ear wax, grass, and vomit, as well as tastier ones. My brother convinced my father to read the Harry Potter series, which he did, all four books in the span of a week, and enjoyed. This makes it the first set of books the three of us have all read. Dad seemed surprised to get Bernie Bott's beans, very cool. My grandparents got him a cd of patriotic marches, and Mom got him some nice shirts, all in all a decent haul. I love my family.
I've been playing a good deal of Mech Assault lately, having joined a female battalion(4 lances, 16 players) of really awesome gamerchicks from Xbox Live! Our battalion is in the House of Tyr and is full of really talented, fun, amazing women! My husband joke's that we're boyhunters, but the truth really is that it's always more fun to play in a game with other women as passionate about video games as I am, and we all work really well together too! The House of Tyr is an organization of gamers who like to have a good time (men and women) and they tend to police within pretty well, they have a code of conduct that basically asks everyone to be pleasant, and they remove people who fail that code. It means that we can easily find lots of great people to play with and against.
Wednesday marked my first ever figure drawing class! It's a mini-course down at the union, taken with Maciek (we took an art course last semester too). It was really cool, though I have lots to learn. Our teacher is a bit quirky, but nice, and the model was a college student, very cute, very nice, with good poses. I kinda feel like my 1 mins were better than my 20min sketches, though some of my 10min ones were ok. So much fun, and I just know it's going to improve my overall drawings, helping to know how bodies look, and what's possible in a pose. (I was at a very strange angle for one, foreshortening city! where did that foot come from!) Maciek was buzzing along happily, it's good to be in a class with him again. And nice to be forced to draw each week again. I used charcoal the whole time, it looks like I've loosened up my sketching style since last year, which is nice. I'm so glad I'm able to take this course, I had a patron. My father made sure I could take it. I feel so loved, and blessed to have a father who cares for me to help pay for my interests, my skills.
Last night, after having some connection problems on XBL, I went down to Emerson Elementary for the second week in a row to juggle with the http://www.madjugglers.com . Last week I came too early and had to leave before anything really got started, their webpage notes they start at 6:30, which is a fallacy, they tend to come in around 7:30. I arrived about 7:14, and got to meet Mark, Axel, Sam, Melonhead (Again) and I think I met a Mike, and a Gray?. Mark was really nice and gave me some tips on learning to juggle three clubs, I got to 6 catches which he said was 'Success right there, you only need 6 catches to be official'!!
During the night I think I made it past 6 catches several times, it's only a matter of practice before everything lands in the right place. The secret to juggling for me is to find the peace inside and deny the panic. The panic exhibits in all sorts of twitchy movements and jerky throws, the peace allows things to land, even on the ground without seizing up, or over exerting. I can find that peace when I juggle balls, things just settle into place. Talking with Mark later, he says that yo-yo'ers call that the 'State of Yo' or others might call it the Zone. It's nice to know it's close, I'll find it, and soon be juggling clubs! I'm a long way from learning how to juggle knives, and even further from the insane club passing they were doing on the other side of the gym, two rows of people facing each other, and then moving like a slow square dance, moving inside and out, still passing clubs to each other. Amazing!
Later Melonhead showed me a few more tricks for 3 balls, and then did some steal's from my basic cascade, taking from the side and dropping it over on the other side, or throwing it under one of my arms, lots of fun!
Juggling is tough to get started on, I'm sore all over, my quads and glutes did a lot of bending and crouching to pick up errant clubs. I juggled from 7:45 to 9:30 when we stopped. This is much more juggling than I'm used to, even though I've been trying to practice a little everyday. My new rule is, if it feels like exercise, it is. My arms are sore from the work, and from the bruises, if things are thrown correctly, you get no bruises. I'm sure I have less bruises than when I was trying to learn clubs a few years ago.
I knocked myself pretty hard on the left temple last night, I have a nasty bruise forming there. Flipped the pin the wrong way and the handle rapped me hard, I was zonked for a few moments, but obviously not enough for any kind of concussion, or stars.
The end of the night was a game of escalation endurance, everyone stands around the edges, and starts juggling their second hardest or newest skill on balls or clubs, if you drop you're out. The last person standing has to start the next round on a harder trick, while everyone else can stay with their second hardest. I even won one round doing tennis with 3 balls, remember the one I learned from Vlad at Bardic! Then I started the next with a reverse cascade, but dropped pretty quickly. We went four or five round, it was very cool.
Ah, tonight is book reading and *new* Buffy over at the
smugaotto's place! I thought I was going to miss out, but my weekend plans shifted, yah! I missed last week, had a lovely dinner over at his Moms. And! I have a half day today. What a weekend!
The Wild Adventures.
Mar. 28th, 2003 10:00 amLest you think I only post quizzes, let me relate the last week here. How did I fit so much in?!
Monday night went perfectly. Plenty of pasta, yummy meatballs, ginger ale, cherry cordial ice cream, and marble cake with yummy icing. After desert we even indulged in the last bottle of Chaucer's mead that Russ and Naomi had brought us. (and it was really good!)
Everyone was happy to be over a our place, to not have to cook or clean, and just enjoy themselves. I had really worried for nothing. The table held up, as well as our other furniture, and I had time to mop before everyone came so the house smelled really nice. It was nice to have my grandparents, parents and brother all over for dinner. Sounds like we're going to start inviting other parental units to come visit as well.
My dad started laughing when he unwrapped Monty Python's Holy grail, mimicking the wizard smiting scene, and talking about air laden swallows. He might have to come over to our place to watch it, but he'd never get the movie from mom, or even for himself, likely, so I'm glad I got it for him. My brother got him a borders certificate card and... A big box of 'Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans', with flavors like ear wax, grass, and vomit, as well as tastier ones. My brother convinced my father to read the Harry Potter series, which he did, all four books in the span of a week, and enjoyed. This makes it the first set of books the three of us have all read. Dad seemed surprised to get Bernie Bott's beans, very cool. My grandparents got him a cd of patriotic marches, and Mom got him some nice shirts, all in all a decent haul. I love my family.
I've been playing a good deal of Mech Assault lately, having joined a female battalion(4 lances, 16 players) of really awesome gamerchicks from Xbox Live! Our battalion is in the House of Tyr and is full of really talented, fun, amazing women! My husband joke's that we're boyhunters, but the truth really is that it's always more fun to play in a game with other women as passionate about video games as I am, and we all work really well together too! The House of Tyr is an organization of gamers who like to have a good time (men and women) and they tend to police within pretty well, they have a code of conduct that basically asks everyone to be pleasant, and they remove people who fail that code. It means that we can easily find lots of great people to play with and against.
Wednesday marked my first ever figure drawing class! It's a mini-course down at the union, taken with Maciek (we took an art course last semester too). It was really cool, though I have lots to learn. Our teacher is a bit quirky, but nice, and the model was a college student, very cute, very nice, with good poses. I kinda feel like my 1 mins were better than my 20min sketches, though some of my 10min ones were ok. So much fun, and I just know it's going to improve my overall drawings, helping to know how bodies look, and what's possible in a pose. (I was at a very strange angle for one, foreshortening city! where did that foot come from!) Maciek was buzzing along happily, it's good to be in a class with him again. And nice to be forced to draw each week again. I used charcoal the whole time, it looks like I've loosened up my sketching style since last year, which is nice. I'm so glad I'm able to take this course, I had a patron. My father made sure I could take it. I feel so loved, and blessed to have a father who cares for me to help pay for my interests, my skills.
Last night, after having some connection problems on XBL, I went down to Emerson Elementary for the second week in a row to juggle with the http://www.madjugglers.com . Last week I came too early and had to leave before anything really got started, their webpage notes they start at 6:30, which is a fallacy, they tend to come in around 7:30. I arrived about 7:14, and got to meet Mark, Axel, Sam, Melonhead (Again) and I think I met a Mike, and a Gray?. Mark was really nice and gave me some tips on learning to juggle three clubs, I got to 6 catches which he said was 'Success right there, you only need 6 catches to be official'!!
During the night I think I made it past 6 catches several times, it's only a matter of practice before everything lands in the right place. The secret to juggling for me is to find the peace inside and deny the panic. The panic exhibits in all sorts of twitchy movements and jerky throws, the peace allows things to land, even on the ground without seizing up, or over exerting. I can find that peace when I juggle balls, things just settle into place. Talking with Mark later, he says that yo-yo'ers call that the 'State of Yo' or others might call it the Zone. It's nice to know it's close, I'll find it, and soon be juggling clubs! I'm a long way from learning how to juggle knives, and even further from the insane club passing they were doing on the other side of the gym, two rows of people facing each other, and then moving like a slow square dance, moving inside and out, still passing clubs to each other. Amazing!
Later Melonhead showed me a few more tricks for 3 balls, and then did some steal's from my basic cascade, taking from the side and dropping it over on the other side, or throwing it under one of my arms, lots of fun!
Juggling is tough to get started on, I'm sore all over, my quads and glutes did a lot of bending and crouching to pick up errant clubs. I juggled from 7:45 to 9:30 when we stopped. This is much more juggling than I'm used to, even though I've been trying to practice a little everyday. My new rule is, if it feels like exercise, it is. My arms are sore from the work, and from the bruises, if things are thrown correctly, you get no bruises. I'm sure I have less bruises than when I was trying to learn clubs a few years ago.
I knocked myself pretty hard on the left temple last night, I have a nasty bruise forming there. Flipped the pin the wrong way and the handle rapped me hard, I was zonked for a few moments, but obviously not enough for any kind of concussion, or stars.
The end of the night was a game of escalation endurance, everyone stands around the edges, and starts juggling their second hardest or newest skill on balls or clubs, if you drop you're out. The last person standing has to start the next round on a harder trick, while everyone else can stay with their second hardest. I even won one round doing tennis with 3 balls, remember the one I learned from Vlad at Bardic! Then I started the next with a reverse cascade, but dropped pretty quickly. We went four or five round, it was very cool.
Ah, tonight is book reading and *new* Buffy over at thesmugaotto's place! I thought I was going to miss out, but my weekend plans shifted, yah! I missed last week, had a lovely dinner over at his Moms. And! I have a half day today. What a weekend!
Monday night went perfectly. Plenty of pasta, yummy meatballs, ginger ale, cherry cordial ice cream, and marble cake with yummy icing. After desert we even indulged in the last bottle of Chaucer's mead that Russ and Naomi had brought us. (and it was really good!)
Everyone was happy to be over a our place, to not have to cook or clean, and just enjoy themselves. I had really worried for nothing. The table held up, as well as our other furniture, and I had time to mop before everyone came so the house smelled really nice. It was nice to have my grandparents, parents and brother all over for dinner. Sounds like we're going to start inviting other parental units to come visit as well.
My dad started laughing when he unwrapped Monty Python's Holy grail, mimicking the wizard smiting scene, and talking about air laden swallows. He might have to come over to our place to watch it, but he'd never get the movie from mom, or even for himself, likely, so I'm glad I got it for him. My brother got him a borders certificate card and... A big box of 'Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans', with flavors like ear wax, grass, and vomit, as well as tastier ones. My brother convinced my father to read the Harry Potter series, which he did, all four books in the span of a week, and enjoyed. This makes it the first set of books the three of us have all read. Dad seemed surprised to get Bernie Bott's beans, very cool. My grandparents got him a cd of patriotic marches, and Mom got him some nice shirts, all in all a decent haul. I love my family.
I've been playing a good deal of Mech Assault lately, having joined a female battalion(4 lances, 16 players) of really awesome gamerchicks from Xbox Live! Our battalion is in the House of Tyr and is full of really talented, fun, amazing women! My husband joke's that we're boyhunters, but the truth really is that it's always more fun to play in a game with other women as passionate about video games as I am, and we all work really well together too! The House of Tyr is an organization of gamers who like to have a good time (men and women) and they tend to police within pretty well, they have a code of conduct that basically asks everyone to be pleasant, and they remove people who fail that code. It means that we can easily find lots of great people to play with and against.
Wednesday marked my first ever figure drawing class! It's a mini-course down at the union, taken with Maciek (we took an art course last semester too). It was really cool, though I have lots to learn. Our teacher is a bit quirky, but nice, and the model was a college student, very cute, very nice, with good poses. I kinda feel like my 1 mins were better than my 20min sketches, though some of my 10min ones were ok. So much fun, and I just know it's going to improve my overall drawings, helping to know how bodies look, and what's possible in a pose. (I was at a very strange angle for one, foreshortening city! where did that foot come from!) Maciek was buzzing along happily, it's good to be in a class with him again. And nice to be forced to draw each week again. I used charcoal the whole time, it looks like I've loosened up my sketching style since last year, which is nice. I'm so glad I'm able to take this course, I had a patron. My father made sure I could take it. I feel so loved, and blessed to have a father who cares for me to help pay for my interests, my skills.
Last night, after having some connection problems on XBL, I went down to Emerson Elementary for the second week in a row to juggle with the http://www.madjugglers.com . Last week I came too early and had to leave before anything really got started, their webpage notes they start at 6:30, which is a fallacy, they tend to come in around 7:30. I arrived about 7:14, and got to meet Mark, Axel, Sam, Melonhead (Again) and I think I met a Mike, and a Gray?. Mark was really nice and gave me some tips on learning to juggle three clubs, I got to 6 catches which he said was 'Success right there, you only need 6 catches to be official'!!
During the night I think I made it past 6 catches several times, it's only a matter of practice before everything lands in the right place. The secret to juggling for me is to find the peace inside and deny the panic. The panic exhibits in all sorts of twitchy movements and jerky throws, the peace allows things to land, even on the ground without seizing up, or over exerting. I can find that peace when I juggle balls, things just settle into place. Talking with Mark later, he says that yo-yo'ers call that the 'State of Yo' or others might call it the Zone. It's nice to know it's close, I'll find it, and soon be juggling clubs! I'm a long way from learning how to juggle knives, and even further from the insane club passing they were doing on the other side of the gym, two rows of people facing each other, and then moving like a slow square dance, moving inside and out, still passing clubs to each other. Amazing!
Later Melonhead showed me a few more tricks for 3 balls, and then did some steal's from my basic cascade, taking from the side and dropping it over on the other side, or throwing it under one of my arms, lots of fun!
Juggling is tough to get started on, I'm sore all over, my quads and glutes did a lot of bending and crouching to pick up errant clubs. I juggled from 7:45 to 9:30 when we stopped. This is much more juggling than I'm used to, even though I've been trying to practice a little everyday. My new rule is, if it feels like exercise, it is. My arms are sore from the work, and from the bruises, if things are thrown correctly, you get no bruises. I'm sure I have less bruises than when I was trying to learn clubs a few years ago.
I knocked myself pretty hard on the left temple last night, I have a nasty bruise forming there. Flipped the pin the wrong way and the handle rapped me hard, I was zonked for a few moments, but obviously not enough for any kind of concussion, or stars.
The end of the night was a game of escalation endurance, everyone stands around the edges, and starts juggling their second hardest or newest skill on balls or clubs, if you drop you're out. The last person standing has to start the next round on a harder trick, while everyone else can stay with their second hardest. I even won one round doing tennis with 3 balls, remember the one I learned from Vlad at Bardic! Then I started the next with a reverse cascade, but dropped pretty quickly. We went four or five round, it was very cool.
Ah, tonight is book reading and *new* Buffy over at the
smugaotto's place! I thought I was going to miss out, but my weekend plans shifted, yah! I missed last week, had a lovely dinner over at his Moms. And! I have a half day today. What a weekend!