Fencing season is officially making me go mildly insane!
This weekend was supposed to be a double-weekend meet, with one at Brandeis (in Boston) and the other in New Jersey at Rutgers, but the one at Rutgers today was cancelled so we came back to school instead. We got in at 2.00 this morning, which isn't terribly late for a college student on a Saturday night, but we were all exhausted from fencing and being on the bus for 6+ hours. As a result I'm a bit incoherent, but I'm way overdue for a blog post. Sorry to anyone actually reading this... =/
Anyway. My birthday was last week so my parents and Madman came to take me out for dinner, which was pretty awesome, and my mom baked my favorite birthday cake--chocolate-less chocolate cake with berries and homemade whipped cream-- which was even more awesome. And they gave me an iTouch, so now I can listen to music wherever and browse the wireless internets and it's so beautiful and shiny and stuff. I would almost say its deliciousness nears that of the birthday cake! It shows pictures really well, surprisingly enough, and so now if people ask to see my artwork for some reason I'll always have some on hand. Now, to get a case...
I owe you all a real update, promise. I will, however, wait until I've gotten more sleep.
31 January, 2010
18 January, 2010
An observation
School toilet paper sucks. If you're a tp snob like I am (Charmin 2-ply for the win), bring your own.
Yes, well.
It's been a little bit since I last wrote. I know, I know, what's up with irregular posting? But you have to trust me when I say it's been a crazy couple of weeks. After my last post I tried my hardest to enjoy my remaining time at home. I finished the beret I was working on, though I'm not positive it is actually serviceable as a hat. I also went skating on a real pond for the first time in my entire life!! Which was a spectacular experience I would recommend to everyone!!! It was infinitely better than skating on a rink-- yes, the ice is a little bit rougher, but it's hardly noticeable after the first push off, and being outside while skating is spectacular. The only thing I had trouble with were the sticks falling from a tree hanging over the ice, which my skates somehow found no matter how hard I tried to steer clear of them...
On the 11th I journeyed back to school for a fencing winter training camp, where we fenced for six hours a day. It wasn't as grueling as it sounds, really. Okay, so some of us wanted to die for a day or so, but now when I look at my (mostly not sore) muscles I really feel that I've accomplished something. Today we have no classes because of MLK Day, so I'm just fencing and relaxing and being a normal lazy college student, I guess, to save up energy for the next two months' fencing meet saga. And counting down the days till my birthday (9!).
On the 11th I journeyed back to school for a fencing winter training camp, where we fenced for six hours a day. It wasn't as grueling as it sounds, really. Okay, so some of us wanted to die for a day or so, but now when I look at my (mostly not sore) muscles I really feel that I've accomplished something. Today we have no classes because of MLK Day, so I'm just fencing and relaxing and being a normal lazy college student, I guess, to save up energy for the next two months' fencing meet saga. And counting down the days till my birthday (9!).
02 January, 2010
01022010
Happy New Year, everyone!
A cause for much excitement, besides the whole new decade thing: today's a palindrome!
According to a chain going around on facebook (reliable source, i know), "there will be 12 MM/DD/YYYY palindromes in the 21st century, 12 more in the 22nd and 12 more in the 23rd. But after that, the next such palindrome period won't happen for 711 years and a day like today won't return for millenia." Fun fact, eh? Though really the date depends on how you write the date-- today's just a normal day in Europe, where instead the date is 02012010, which is still pretty cool but not as cool. Sorry, guys. You'll just have to wait 'till 01 February.
In other news, I just found Coco Perez's 17 December entry about condom fashion-- apparently in order to raise awareness about the spread of HIV/AIDS, some company in China organized a fashion show where the clothing was made entirely of condoms. Weird, huh?
Some of the dresses were surprisingly fashionable if you ignore what they're made of, like this one below.
There were some style issues, though; can you say unnecessary close-up of unfurled, ribbed coloreds? And really, the gigantic condom lollipop was a bit much. Thankfully, no pearl necklaces were, to my knowledge, worn on the runway.
[image courtesy of Coco Perez]
A cause for much excitement, besides the whole new decade thing: today's a palindrome!
According to a chain going around on facebook (reliable source, i know), "there will be 12 MM/DD/YYYY palindromes in the 21st century, 12 more in the 22nd and 12 more in the 23rd. But after that, the next such palindrome period won't happen for 711 years and a day like today won't return for millenia." Fun fact, eh? Though really the date depends on how you write the date-- today's just a normal day in Europe, where instead the date is 02012010, which is still pretty cool but not as cool. Sorry, guys. You'll just have to wait 'till 01 February.
In other news, I just found Coco Perez's 17 December entry about condom fashion-- apparently in order to raise awareness about the spread of HIV/AIDS, some company in China organized a fashion show where the clothing was made entirely of condoms. Weird, huh?
Some of the dresses were surprisingly fashionable if you ignore what they're made of, like this one below.
There were some style issues, though; can you say unnecessary close-up of unfurled, ribbed coloreds? And really, the gigantic condom lollipop was a bit much. Thankfully, no pearl necklaces were, to my knowledge, worn on the runway.
[image courtesy of Coco Perez]
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