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I've got the Whitman Taekwon-do Team (+ head of security) asleep on my floor. It's not my bedtime yet so I'm watching Top Gear with my earbuds in.

Apocalyptic dingleberry is pretty much the best insult I have ever heard.

That is all.
zolac_no_miko: (PTERODACTYL!)
Ok, well this is me carving a few minutes out of my day and designating it Free Time, which, in combination with the few minutes I designated Washing Dishes earlier this morning, means I won't be going to taekwon-do practice today. Oh well.

Instead I will talk about my Boise trip! )

In other news, Ok Go is playing at the Wonder Ballroom this Friday night. HELLS YES. See, this is why I'm living in Portland. CONCERTS. I could be at home, and not having concerts, and that just wouldn't be as much fun.
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So today's lulzy victims of nomenclature out of the claims forms are Noreen and John Stillhard. ...Stillhard. THAT IS SO UNFORTUNATE. Gents, if you're ever thinking about going into the pornography acting business, may I suggest the pseudonym Dick Stillhard?

Still no time to write more than five sentences relating to the Las Vegas adventure. It might not be until at least Sunday, at this point. ARGH WAI MY LIFE SO CRAZY RITE NAO?! DX

This weekend I'm roadtripping it Boise with the Sellwood dojang for the Idaho Championship Tournament. It's going to be like a 7 1/2 hour drive, TWICE. And I get to do the fun fun-stay-up-for-over-24-hours-twice-in-one-weekend thing, AGAIN, after I just did it last week. And I'm in the same position I was in last month, where I haven't done any breaking in over two weeks and ARGH I don't think I can count on my competition sucking again. ...But I'm really looking forward to it. Tournaments are fun, I haven't been to a Championship Tournament in YEARS, and I'll get to see Grandmaster Knife and the whole Boise crew for the first time in almost a year.

Speaking of taekwon-do, I got kicked in the eye the other day by a 2nd degree black belt. ...This is actually a good thing. Not the getting kicked in the eye part so much as the kicked in the eye by a 2nd degree black belt part. Aaron, like all Kim's Taekwon-do students, is trained to have excellent control, and although kicking me in the face was an accident, he has sufficient rank and skill to pull his technique and avoid hurting me. He's strong enough to kick through me if he wanted; by all rights I should be blind in one eye, or have a broken cheekbone or something. Instead, I don't even have a bruise.

...I love my sport, and I love my School.
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So I spent all morning on Friday cleaning my room and oh my god I have a floor and a desk! I then spent the rest of the day watching Princess Tutu, hells yeah. I did all this instead of sleeping so that I could get myself temporarily on a diurnal, normal-person sort of schedule in time to accompany the Whitman College Taekwon-do team to the Forest Grove tournament.

I took a two hour nap and then sure enough, there they were on my doorstep, all seven of them. There was a brief flurry of hugs as everyone filed into the apartment, a moment or two of "this is my apartment, this is my room, this is Dar's indoor garden, these are my terrified roommates", and then we all filed out again to go to Koji Osakaya, our favorite Japanese restaurant. Then we came back and I fed Chris' kitty and we watched "Best of the Best 4: Without Warning". I found the fourth installment of our favorite crappy taekwon-do movies to be thoroughly mediocre, to my satisfaction. Sending Laura and Mary up to sleep on Chris' floor and leaving a litter of people in my own living room, I retired to my own bed, where I had a nice sleepover-style conversation with Fluffy before PASSING THE FUCK OUT.

Follow the fake-cut for taekwon-do, gay outlaw read-alouds, and related antics. )
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So it turns out Mister Brown, Don, Nan, and I are all gigantic Beowulf geeks, so we spent the entire practice talking about Beowulf. To the dismay of Todd, who was like, "...So about that Superbowl!" Becca, you would've loved it. ...Aaaaaaand Mister Brown wants to see my Beowulf movie now, so I've promised to bring the DVD in to class. *facepalm* Dear god that thing gets around.

After practice Mister Brown told us stories about why his parents thought he was gay when he was a teenager. I just about busted a gut laughing. And now I'm SO HUNGRY OMG, it's soooo time for second breakfast.
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Today I stepped into a dojang for the first time since May. I am in craptacular shape; the workout just about killed me. But I stepped out into the rain full of happy endorphins, remembering why I love this sport.

I missed the tired feeling in the arch of my foot when I press a gas pedal or climb a stair. I missed the whole-leg ache of overworked muscles. I missed the slightly raw feeling in my lungs. I missed taking a hot shower and eating my dinner and feeling like I deserved it. I especially missed the feeling of shins that are bruised in multiple places.

I feel like I've been beaten with a large, heavy stick, and it feels fantastic.






...Also, I have massive Iron Man cravings. I'mma wash the dishes, then sit in my bed with a Tony Starkcicle and WATCH IT. :DDDD Super Heroes popsicles ftw!

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