idle musings

“Inflate a balloon; get a revelation.” ~ my Mr Wisdom guy

I am angry. I spent two evenings this week at the dojo, first watching the grading and then last night watching the seminar. I am royally pissed off fucking angry that I have to watch people who were white belts when I had already earned my brown belt, approaching the same rank as me and [...]

The Professor, the highest ranking black belt and founder of my system, flew into Vancouver tonight for the bi-annual grading next week. There was the usual crowd to meet him at the airport but I decided that would be too much for me, so I skipped it and went straight to restaurant where everyone joined [...]

I’ve been spending a little bit of time tonight wading through the backlog of my Google Reader, trying to catch up on everything that I have missed over the past couple of weeks. An excerpt from Shapely Prose reads: I know that some people genuinely thrive on competition, and more power to them — but [...]

I was at the dojo for 5 hours today. Granted, two hours of that was instructing, but that takes energy too – just a different kind. Luckily for me, the group that I had to run through katas were so high energy and were giving everything back to me, which makes it so much easier [...]