Letter to a Frog...

notes from my 2nd day (OMG was that only day two? was that only 36 hours ago? are you my mommy?)

I'm currently two days behind - so am cheating... this here is excerpts from an email i sent wildly at 1 am a day and a half ago (or 2 weeks ago in ACW years) and will try to not get too much further behind than i already am - there is so much to tell and so much to learn and time is my oyster...

still sort of following my class around and checking the schedule all the time :P and all our classes are in the same buildinig - but i'm so brain-full and 'oh right' not sleeping that the memorization of a paltry schedule when i have so many other things to absorb is really not worth the entire brain cell it might require... uh do not be surprised if random phrases i throw out at you end up on my blog, i don't have enough time to rephrase concepts i find amusing and may include :P *rolls eyes* wow i'm so tired i'm speaking in smilies I wish i had - forgetting that i Can type it out as a smiley because i'm not currently in chat and will it not animate it incorrectly :P) but AnYway ...sigh... my point is i have lunch in that 12:30ish to 2ish period and may be online most days 'round then cuz i can't really go into the dining hall without the plan and that's where my whole class is usually :( so yay computer lab (OMG i;ve got the tv on and am hearing 'Viva Viagra" [as in - to the tune of 'viva las vegas'] in the background... i kid you not!) and i do want to try and keep up with the blog and late nights is hard... as it is i need to crash asap...

blah blah clearly in exhaustion meets wired mode (crazy awesome master classes tonight... i cracked a whip!! a Real indiana jones type one (and i was the first person to make it happen! - altho i wasn't able to be quite as consistent as some others
in class... martin said he'd totally be willing to practice with those of us interested and unbusy when time and schedule permits.. and i think i Have to take him up on that!! I mean A.) So Awesome!! and b.) how many chix have 'i can crack a whip' on their resume?? and also did a crowd dive masked as a trust exercise - hee! :D) and am simply blathering at you now... gotsta wind down off the late night adrenaline rush and i'm keeping my toxin intake to a minimum so as not to hurt worse than the classes are already taking care of for me so can't try and drug myself to sleep (this is NOT Qui's sunday afternoon class where you can kinda get away with having indulged too well saturday night... not by a Long Shot!)

i can't believe it's only day two.. i can't imagine how much i have to learn and how natural these halting things will be by the time i have done... i am less scared because of fight studio because i know how things just finally click and then you're gold.. that in weeks and an amount of hours i am have already completed more than half of.. on day TWO! and really it's not as bad as i think - tho i am fighting to learn and retrain myself... but broadsword is basically just a VERY Very very freaking heavy kitana (and you have to stay lower and more square to support the weight) but the handling of it is clearly related... unarmed i'm obv familiar with - but treating as if i'm not and K. Jenny Jones (the first female safd fight master in over 30 years - kind of a big deal) has a very different style (both as a teacher and in approach) than i'm used to and of course worlds more experience than anyone i've worked with perviously and as i inferred earlier i have already corrected an actual mistake in my tumbling technique (and one of the assistants actually called me out for doing a good thing today in class and the class intern said i was 'rockin' today... and i thought i'd done badly!) my class is bonding like crazy and they're reportedly shuffling us up again in a few days and I'm Really unhappy about that... we're 18 in our half as it is and i'm still learning all the names straight but we've gone thru all the painful first steps together as well as done special trust exercise classes etc. and we Know each other... and i;m just not a fan of all that mixing it up thing (i was concerned enough as it was about
choosing a spt partner from my current and awesome class) but crap - whatevs,
it's not like i can Do anything about it...

of course i'm also now really unhappy i'm staying off campus, i made a bad call - and am consoling myself that since they required payment in cash and early, i literally couldn't pay the roomNboard too in time (and since i hadn't secured a sublet yet - i was considering it up to the last minute - but as it was i had to pay my tuition 3
days late in order to wait for chex to clear and... i needed the extra weeks to
get the money for my much cheaper sublet... but i'm sad... next time (and
that'll be intermediates in Vegas!!... cuz I'm also thinking why put myself thru
the stress of trying to fit a class into my city schedule (unless it's an unusual weapon) when i can vacay with safd...

the bug?... she has bitten!

Oh ok, just one more thing... rapier dagger? admittedly the most unfamiliar of the forms i'll be tested in - since i Do have a sound foundation in unarmed and broadsword has so many similarities to the kitana - but, we all know how much i love my escrima... and wielding a second weapon and using it as flexibly as the 'primary weapon' is far from unfamiliar.. and the feel of having a flexible yet strong steel weapon in one hand and a dagger almost the length f your stick in the other... it's Awesome, and so cool because i can focus on learning these new positions and footwork and not have to worry about what my silly hands are doing (just a bit of a mindfuck when fighting against the lefthanders in the room - everything flips - but not exactly :P) but, yeah pretty awesome stuff...