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enismirdalI've had over 11 hours' sleep now, and suddenly I feel like I have a working brain! It's amazing and an unfamilar feeling. Wow!
Thursday's Aikido was pretty good. I got to train with the higher grades, doing some weapons work. That was funsome! Also got to throw around my Crush, who I thought I was getting over, but apparently not. He might be at our party tonight, we'll see...
However, I did hear the words that should be taboo in an Aiki-dojo. "He's probably too tall for you for this technique." As far as I'm concerned, if the technique cannot be adapted for a small person to use on a tall person, it has no business being taught on the mat at all. But then, if you said those words to Sensei Sue Baird, you'd receive a dressing down like you'd never believe, and I always saw Sue as something of a role model when it came to small people doing Aikido.
In any case, I got back bouncy, grinning and full of energy, and joined flatmates for Craft Night the Second. We made the kitchen Halloweeny. Now, I've never been to a Halloween party before and generally have little or no interest in the festival. But making evil bananas is so much fun! I made an evil Zippy too. It went a bit wrong, but never mind. :D Lúthien, the plushie bat that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ford_of_bruinen gave me as a pressie, is pinned to the ceiling being awesome. So yay!
Friday was semi-lazy for a work day. We took a one hour break for cake as the labtech was celebrating his birthday. And we took a 2 hour break in the afternoon for the lab meeting, which was spent debating things like bee dominance hierarchies and workers breeding.
Bumblebee of the week is Bombus canariensis - one of the students in the lab is using a colony of them at the moment for her experiments as she's heard they're really good. I like them. They're big, and I love big bees, and they're all black except for a white or yellow tail.
Today I got up at 2:30pm and I needed it so very, very badly. Huzzah.
If I am feeling really crazy I might try to make a cheese soufflé tonight, in spite of having no whisk...
Thursday's Aikido was pretty good. I got to train with the higher grades, doing some weapons work. That was funsome! Also got to throw around my Crush, who I thought I was getting over, but apparently not. He might be at our party tonight, we'll see...
However, I did hear the words that should be taboo in an Aiki-dojo. "He's probably too tall for you for this technique." As far as I'm concerned, if the technique cannot be adapted for a small person to use on a tall person, it has no business being taught on the mat at all. But then, if you said those words to Sensei Sue Baird, you'd receive a dressing down like you'd never believe, and I always saw Sue as something of a role model when it came to small people doing Aikido.
In any case, I got back bouncy, grinning and full of energy, and joined flatmates for Craft Night the Second. We made the kitchen Halloweeny. Now, I've never been to a Halloween party before and generally have little or no interest in the festival. But making evil bananas is so much fun! I made an evil Zippy too. It went a bit wrong, but never mind. :D Lúthien, the plushie bat that
ford_of_bruinen gave me as a pressie, is pinned to the ceiling being awesome. So yay!Friday was semi-lazy for a work day. We took a one hour break for cake as the labtech was celebrating his birthday. And we took a 2 hour break in the afternoon for the lab meeting, which was spent debating things like bee dominance hierarchies and workers breeding.
Bumblebee of the week is Bombus canariensis - one of the students in the lab is using a colony of them at the moment for her experiments as she's heard they're really good. I like them. They're big, and I love big bees, and they're all black except for a white or yellow tail.
Today I got up at 2:30pm and I needed it so very, very badly. Huzzah.
If I am feeling really crazy I might try to make a cheese soufflé tonight, in spite of having no whisk...
