Hey everyone. I will be without a phone for a little while, it looks like. In the meantime the best way to get ahold of me is probably through.. I don't know, e-mail, I guess. I guess this will make communication difficult, but hopefully within a month or so I should have my other cell-phone hooked up and working, when that happens I will let you all know.
Hopefully it's not too much of a problem.

See you around!

~Sleet

I Am A: True Neutral Human Sorcerer (2nd Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-15

Dexterity-15

Constitution-15

Intelligence-14

Wisdom-14

Charisma-14


Alignment:
True Neutral A true neutral character does what seems to be a good idea. He doesn't feel strongly one way or the other when it comes to good vs. evil or law vs. chaos. Most true neutral characters exhibit a lack of conviction or bias rather than a commitment to neutrality. Such a character thinks of good as better than evil after all, he would rather have good neighbors and rulers than evil ones. Still, he's not personally committed to upholding good in any abstract or universal way. Some true neutral characters, on the other hand, commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They see good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. They advocate the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run. True neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you act naturally, without prejudice or compulsion. However, true neutral can be a dangerous alignment because it represents apathy, indifference, and a lack of conviction.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.


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Again, quizzes don't count as posts, so we're still at 24, ok? Ok.

Bye!

Hey there. It's been a fair amount of time since I posted last, I guess.. sorry about that. There's been a fair amount going on, and I just hadn't really felt up to it, I suppose.
Hm.. where to start..
Well, I guess I ought to get the bad news out of the way first.. I've started working at Stream again. I'm sorry, everyone.. I guess that sort of makes me a hypocrite, but I needed a reliable full-time job in order to save up some money, and it's amazing how difficult it can be to find one of those in Chilliwack. There are jobs, yes, but the employers in this area seem to have a serious aversion to hiring full-time employees. Sigh... well, I'm doing tech support for multi-function printers at the moment. Literally at the moment, that is, I'm actually writing this up while taking a call at work. Shh, don't tell anyone. (Poor guy, I'm going through the troubleshooting steps with him, but I already know he's gonna have to pay for service or a replacement..)

Oy.. I'm tired..

Well, we (the Press-Ganged Theatre Companie) performed 'Hamlet' this weekend, in Harrison. It went extremely well! It was sort of interesting, before the show I asked Bess if she could do anything with my hair to keep it out of my face during the show, so she took about ten minutes, maybe a double-handful of bobby-pins, and rolled it back into a ponytail, sort of shepard Book looking deal. There will be pictures of it floating around eventually, I'm sure. Anyways, I played 'Rosencrantz', opposite Elora's 'Guildenstern'. The two of us got a lot of laughs and even a decent amount of applause, which was extremely flattering. The audience was full of praise during the intermission and after the show.
Andrea did an amazing job as Marcellus, a Gentleman, and the Priest, as well as filling in as props mistress for the production. She did a great job, and everyone pitched in to get her, Ayame, Gwen, and Astrid each a bouquet of flowers. I must admit, however, that it would be nice if she got a female role next year.. >.>;

Also..

During the intermission, before we got to the main dinner course, their Highness's, Prince and Princess Tir Righ held a small court. I felt like a deer in headlights when they called Sleet Avery before them (Ernst was heralding), and proceeded forward with much bowing and scraping (wouldn't you know I can even get a few laughs while getting called into court). I knelt before them, and when Ernst read out that I was to be awarded Arms, I heard someone off to my right (Johanna, it sounded like?) whisper an excited "Yes!" After Ernst's bit, there was a lot of cheering (which was probably the best part of the whole thing) and as her Highness was putting the necklace over my head, she says, "It sounds like you deserve it." I couldn't help grinning. =P Of course there was the three cheers bit, and then one of their Highness' guards chased me out of court with a spear.
After the rest of court I got swamped by people congratulating me (the whole 'Lord' bit is going to take a lot of getting used to). The AoA necklace is nice and long and heavy, so I won't forget about it. It's even got these little round beads spaced about it that are strangely reminiscent of millstones..
The scroll they gave me is very nice, and Andrea noticed that in the top left corner there's an image of what looks like a bird in armor.. Bird - Avery? I know the scrolls aren't custom-made or anything, but it was either a nice coincidence, or maybe someone picked it out due to that.
Heh, Mrs. Braumberger came up to congratulate me at one point, I let her know I was just following family tradition. After all, both of Alex Kevin's sisters had received their AoA's at Bard & a Banquet, right?

Anyways, we made it through the play successfully, and it really felt like one of our best performances. The audience seemed to agree, as well.
Even with that, though, I can't wait to get started on the '13th Einar'. It will be a relief, I think, to be able to do a straight comedy again. Hamlet was fun, but it's tough to do something so serious. I got off easy with a mostly comic-relief role, I think.
I can't wait to see pictures, and Luther taped the whole thing, so we'll have to see whether that turned out alright.

Well, anyways, it's back to the work week, and I can't think of anything else to write about at the moment, so that's it for now, I think!

Thanks for sitting through post twenty-four (24? As in Nov. 24th, when we had the play?) with me.

Talk to you later!

This has been on a few people's blogs, apparently you can comment on it to see if my views of myself are accurate.
Andrea seems interested in this movie, I think I should try and read the book(s?) before it comes out. If one of you has it(them?) might I be able to borrow?
Thanks!



So, leaving for Clinton friday morning around 6 am. I have to say, I am really looking forward to this Clinton. It will be Andrea's first Clinton, as well as my friend Mike's first real SCA event. Astrid will be able to make it, which we were not sure of, and there will be loads of cool people there. Teh Bess! We will totally have to hang out!
Apparently I might be getting sloshed at some point with Argan and Alejandro, as well, which could be fun, though I am somewhat of a silly drunk, if the one time I have been drunk in the past is any indication. Also, I am apparently something of a sucker for scotch, but then, I'm a fencer, so I guess that's no huge suprise.

Pierce invited Andrea and I to his and Lavania (ok, I know that's spelled wrong)'s wedding, which is actually sort of a really big compliment to me. I mean, I know that I wasn't his first choice, but the fact that he'd like me to come to his wedding at all is really flattering. I'm looking forward to that, it should be a good time. Not to mention, the sword arch he is planning for Clinton..

Also! It seems that Clan O'Brian is in charge of the roving rapier for this year.. It is going to be such a blast!
And, if what I've heard is correct, I believe Warwick might be MIC for the rapier portion of the War itself.. Warwick is a pretty cool guy, he seems to have a good head on his shoulders, and when it comes to fencing, he knows his stuff. But then, he is also sort of a pirate, and I know he likes his guns.. I really hope the war isn't too RBG heavy this year.. But that's my main concern, and if he keeps that under control, this years Clinton is going to be a killer. The one thing that saddens me about this year, is that this will be the first Clinton I've attended with no Kateryn.. *Sigh..*

Well, I'm going to go try and sleep, I suppose. Thanks for reading through post twenty-three with me.
See you at Clinton, I hope!

~Sleet

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Oh, and BTW? I'm totally not counting this as an official journal entry, so we're still at post 22, ok? Good. Also, I suggest you check out the other results possible for this quiz, they made me laugh fairly hard. Of course, it's nearly three AM, so I'd probably laugh at a lot of things right now.

Now GTFO. (You can come back whenever you like!)

~Sleet

Oh yeah, I was going to post a while back, but I forgot.. July 7th, Andrea and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary.

I guess this probably isn't that exciting to all you internet dwellers, but I'd like to remember it, so I figured I'd type it up.

It was a good day.

Andrea gave me a silver ring and necklace. = ) She's so awesome.
We went to a few places that are sort of significant.

Heh, we went to the Heron reserve for a while. We saw lots of ducks, a bunny (which didn't seem to feel threatened by us at all..), a turtle (possibly two turtles), and finally we found a heron, which we watched catch a few minnows. That was pretty cool.

Well, if you want any other details, maybe she'll tell you.

I guess that's post 22. I'm going to go sleep now.
See you guys around!

~Sleet

Well, my birthday, July fourth, has come and gone. I will run a brief account.
I was honestly really grumpy during the week leading up to my birthday. It's not that I have anything against birthdays, I just.. I don't know, I don't think I really wanted to be the center of attention or anything. Well, that, and my birthday kept sneaking up on me. Like, last week, I wasn't keeping track of the exact date, I guess, cause Tomas and Kayleigh invited me to this trip to some cabin 'next weekend, on the 7th', and I was all.. "Huh.. The seventh? That would mean my birthday is before that.. which would mean my birthday is before next weekend.. AHH!" And then days kept disappearing, and it went from being a week away to five days away, to three days away, to tomorrow.. I was really grumpy when my birthday was tomorrow. I sort of took it out on Astrid all day, I think. Sorry about that, Astrid.. I was a jerk, I know. I didn't mean it.

But then today was my birthday.

Ok, I think I can pretty safely say that this was the best birthday ever. If that's not true, then it was certainly the best birthday I can remember.

It wasn't any one thing about it, it's just the day as a whole was amazing.

The night before I couldn't fall asleep (just my regular insomnia taking effect, no pre-birthday jitters or anything.), so I only ended up getting about four hours of sleep, if that. But I woke up to a text message from Andrea asking if she could come over yet, which was great. I put on the SCA shirt she had given me as an early birthday present so I could wear it at Champions, I wanted to wear it all day.

So the first person I see that day is Andrea. Ok, awesome start already, I'm in a great mood. She gives me presents! First: She's going to keep that promise to Kateryn she made, she reminds me, handing me a tupperware container full of these awesome cheese muffins she makes. (Oh man, I'd forgotten those were right there, I'm grabbing one to eat now, I'm kind of hungry. BRB. Ok, back. These things are both delicious and filling. You should be jealous of me right now.) Seriously, she baked me fifteen of these things this morning, that should last me at least a week, depending on how often I'm home.
Then, she gives me gift three, which is a pair of these really nice shirts. Andrea has an amazing sense of style. If you know her, you probably understand this. Not to sound conceited, but these shirts look really good on me, and I think they suit me very well. So yeah, I changed into one of those, this nice brown shirt with vertical white.. pinstripes? I think they might be pinstripes. Anyways, thin white stripes, lines really.
She tells me that the "Big" present isn't done yet, she should be able to give it to me on Saturday (which is when we're celebrating our six month anniversary [I don't like the word anniversary, it doesn't sound happy enough], as she has to work on the eighth.), although I don't understand how she's going to be able to upstage what she's given me already. (Ok, that last sentence had like.. three sentences in it, interrupting each other. Sorry if it was too confusing.)

So we hung out for a bit, then we went to see my mom for a little bit. She gave me this beach bag thing, with swimming trunks, a cool beach towel, and some decent sandals inside, plus a bit of cash. The beach stuff made the rest of the day easier for me, as I didn't really have to search for anything. So Andrea headed to pick up Thaddeus, while I went to pick up Rayne, stopped at the movie theatre to grab ten tickets to the late show of Transformers (turned out to be exactly the right number of tickets, which was really cool), then went to get Cory, and head to Cultus Lake Main Beach. When we got there, Andrea, Thaddeus, Astrid, Mike, and James were all waiting for us. We grabbed some energy drinks from the gas station, then headed down to the docks to go swimming.
Ok, hanging out at the beach today was just.. so much fun. Like, everyone seemed to be having a great time, and the weather was beautiful, the water was just warm enough, I got to sit with Andrea for a while, played some games with everyone.. It was just an all around fun time.
Ok, this one time, we decided to do this chicken fight game (so many things are called chicken fighting, why?), where Astrid was on Mike's shoulders, Alejandro was on Thaddeus's shoulders (Andrea had gone to get Alejandro around 3:45ish, I think?), and I was one James's shoulders, and we were each trying to knock the others down.. So at one point, Alejandro grabs Astrid around the shoulders from behind, and James and I come up behind him, I reach out and just grab his ponytail, give it a little tug, and all four of them go tumbling down, it was hilarious.
Or, Cory and Thaddeus are walking along the docks. Cory has just remembered one of the dialogue's between the king and the emmisary of the persians from the movie "300", so he's spouting it off to himself.. He goes on for a bit, then says, "This is madness!", at which point Thaddeus yells, "THIS IS SPARTA!" and kicks Cory off the dock into the lake. If that isn't awesome, I don't know what is.

Anyways, so five thirty rolls around, and we all head back to my place for a barbeque. Some of my family is there, and all my friends decide now is present time!
Man.. Ok, so first, Mike gives me a Darth Vader bobblehead.
You have to understand how awesome this is. Just let it sink in. Wouldn't you love to have Darth Vader bobbling his head around on your dashboard while you're driving? Also, you have to understand what it means for me to be getting this from Mike. Mike loves Star Wars. Not the new crappy ones, but the classics. It is a pretty amazing thing for Mike to have given me this instead of finding something else and keeping the bobblehead for himself.
Then, Astrid has two presents for me. The first is "Artoo-Potatoo", which is an R2D2 Mr. Potato Head. This thing is awesome. It also came with a little blue see-through "Princess Tater" hologram. I have to quote to you from the back of the box, really.

"Artoo-Potatoo is the heroic companion of Luke Frywalker. The feisty droid often finds himself in hot water. Now, Artoo must help Princess Tater to deliver the Death Spud plans to her friends int he rebellion!"
And Princess Tater has a little speech bubble that says, "Help me Obi-Wan Spudobi!"

Astrid's second present is this freaking awesome shirt that has a picture of a fist, and says around it, "Rock Paper Scissors Champion".
This makes me so happy. If you've met me in person, chances are I've played Rock Paper Scissors with you at least a few times, and it's sort of a joke with Astrid, as I once beat her like best out of fifteen games, pretty much every game, by just throwing rock. Every game, I threw rock, and she just didn't realize it. Oy.. You probably had to be there for that to be funny.

Rayne works with printers, and the day before he had taken this picture of me in a top hat with a jaunty tilt, and this black and red tie. Then, he had gone and made this really cool card out, with the picture on the front, and he got everyone to sign it, which was awesome. It's one of the best cards I've ever gotten, just because it was made for me, I guess, which is really cool.

I got this neat cooler thing from my aunt, along with a neat little flameless space heater that runs on propane. I'll be taking both of those to Clinton, for sure.

Anyways, then we had barbequed smokies, hotdogs, corn, and chicken, along with potatoe salad, chips, fruit.. it was quite the feast, and it was delicious. Then we had some watermelon, and a big blackforest cake. Luther showed up around this point, had some cake, hung out for a bit, and wished me happy birthday. Then we all headed to the theatre to get in line for Transformers, so we could get good seats.
We hung out in line for about an hour and a half, though it really didn't feel that long. Luther wasn't going to see the movie with us, cause he'd seen it twice already (long story, ask him.), but he hung out with us at the theatre for a bit, which was cool. Ayame showed up, as she had gotten off work, and would be claiming the tenth ticket.

Transformers was amazing.

I was so afraid going into that movie that they were going to fuck up Transformers for me. If you're a part of, or close to, my generation, you probably understand. When I was little, I loved Transformers. I watched the original Transformers cartoon on television, I had tons of Transformers toys.. And transformers lately has not been as cool as it used to be.. Now they're in like, Transformers Energon or something, and they've got these kids collecting the 'Minibots' or something, like they're Pokemon, I really don't know what's going on, but it's not the Transformers I loved, so I was really afraid that this movie might ruin Transformers for me, finally..

Seriously, this movie.. wow. It was just so.. Epic. They made it really, really intense. Plus, the nostalgia was all over the place, when you see, like.. Starscream go shooting overhead, and you know before he's introduced, that that is without a doubt, Starscream.. Oy. It was just great. I think I may have to see it in theatres at least once more, and I rarely see movies in theatres more than once. The last one I did that with was.. maybe the first Lord of the Rings movie.

The nice thing about the day, though, was that everything was positive. Everyone seemed to be having a good time all day. There wasn't anything about the day that wasn't great, and all in all I think this was pretty much the best birthday I've ever had.

If you've made it this far, I appreciate it, as that's quite a bit of writing up there, and it probably took a little effort and more than a little patience to make it through post twentyone here with me.

Oh, weird.. Post twenty one, about my twentyfirst birthday.. That just dawned on me, how strange. This isn't the first, either, eh? Post fourteen or something was a week from Valentines day or something? Weird stuff, but then, it's just LJ, right? So nyeh.

Thanks for reading, hope it was at least somewhat enjoyable!

~Sleet, now able to drink in the states. Woo.

Stolen from Illyria. The test is.. questionable, but it works. I found the disclaimer at the end to be.. amusing, I suppose.

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Oh, and I refuse to count this as post 21, so just think of it as a continuation of post 20, even though I didn't just edit it to attach it at the end. Meh.

I don't know why, but today felt very.. long. I guess I got up earlier than I had planned to, and that threw the whole day off.
This evening I received a comment that seemed rather harsh from someone who I would not have expected it from, stemming from something that seemed relatively insignificant. It rather offended me.
I.. don't get offended easily. I don't know. Maybe I'm crediting myself with too much, but I think I'm usually a fairly patient person, at least on most subjects, and, really, I don't think I take things personally very often.
At any rate, that, combined with a buildup of recent events, really put me in a pretty bad mood for most of the rest of the evening.
To Astrid in particular: Sorry if I snapped at you at all, or was a 'Mr.-Grumpy-Pants' in general. I didn't mean to ruin your evening.. It's just.. I don't know. I've been under a fair bit of stress about work, my boss is pretty openly skeptical about my ability to do what they want me to do, and at this point, I'm not positive I disagree with him, and then there was that stuff tonight, you know.. I don't know, that got to me, for some reason. Those things, combined with not quite enough sleep over the past.. Oy. Anyways, this wasn't meant to be an excuse.
Sorry about being not the coolest tonight.

Anyways, I've sent an email to the previously mentioned person, trying to be a little diplomatic and all that, you know. We'll see how things go.

And, I mean, the evening wasn't entirely terrible, either. Andrea always manages to put me in a good mood.
Oy! Don't you all go misinterpreting what I just said! I can't think of any non-misinterpretable way of saying it, ok? I don't mean anything twisted by that, I just mean that being around her and her being her makes me happy, ok? -.- I know what you're thinking..

Anyways!

Eh, I guess I don't have too much more to say right now, and I really ought to try and sleep, as I need to get up too early tomorrow morning.
Sorry if entry twenty here was too angsty sounding or something, I'll try and make the next one a little more cheerful.
Goodnight, all.

~Sleet

So the D&D game I'm going to be running is going to be set in a world that Andrea and I created for a story we were writing.
Alejandro asked me, last night, about religion in the world.
Now, the continent the game is taking place in is divided into City-States, each generally ruled by a Lord or Council, and extending usually not much more than a few days ride from the capital, where it will border on another such state, sometimes peacefully, sometimes less than.
Of course, in a world so divided, there are many religions. The world does in fact have a few True Gods, but it's hard to tell sometimes which are true and which are false, as it seems every second day there's another preacher crying out how he's discovered a true god.

So I got to writing a bit, and thought I'd give you all a little preview at a couple of gods, though I won't say whether either of them actually exists.

Oy.. I really wish Andrea were around so I could bounce these off of her, and they are certainly not set in stone at this point, so don't go memorizing their scriptures just yet, but these two I think aren't likely to change too much. I'm especially fond of Qlklvr.

Let me know what you think!

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Coriol - Lord of the Upper Heavens

Coriol is one of the most widely worshipped gods on the continent. He is the God of the Upper Heavens, which is generally understood to mean that he rules over the Stars, and other such things beyond this world. He is often called, "The Watchful", and many believe that the Sun and Moon are his faces, and the Stars his eyes. He is a God of Order. He likes to keep things running smoothly, and if mountains need to be ground into dust in the process, so be it.
His alignment is Lawful Neutral. Everything that He does, or that His disciples do, is done for a reason.
Coriol's temples tend to be grand, ornate structures, with massive reliefs of his symbol, which is a half-sun, half-moon, generally cast in gold and silver.
Coriol's followers are often marked by a sense of purpose and direction. They understand that they have a reason for existing, and that what they do has a meaning and design, and it is not uncommon for Coriol's more zealous followers to let slip their sense of self, and lose themselves in Coriol's grand scheme.

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Qrlklvr - God of confusion and deception.

Qrlklvr is probably the most difficult god to comprehend, which is understandable, when one considers his domains. No one is really even certain which alignment he follows, so his followers may be any alignment, though lawful is discouraged.
Qrlklvr's priests are some of the most widespread, though 'scattered' may be a more accurate way of describing them. It can be difficult to take Qrlklvr's priests seriously due to the fact that none of them really seem able to agree on how to properly pronounce His name, and a few of them argue that that's not really how you spell it, anywhow. In fact, none of them are really actually certain that He is a He, and not a She, but they seem to have.. mostly settled on He just to keep things simple. It's one less letter to deal with, after all.
Qrlklvr's priests are much more likely to be found wandering about the continent on their own, than congregating in temples, though a few temples to Qrlklvr do exist. They tend to be disorganized sorts of places, for the most part.
Rogues and thieves frequently pay tribute to Qrlklvr, and one may often hear a warrior mutter, "May.. Qrl..Qlkv.. May confusion blight our enemies!"
Qlklvr is often a target of skeptics, however, due to the disorganization of his priests, as well as pretty much anything else relating to Qrlklvr.
Arranaeus the Curious once asked, "Qrlklvr? How can such a God exist, that does not even have any vowels?" This question is oft repeated by both Qrlklvr's non-believers, as well as some of his more confused followers.

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I suppose that's entry nineteen, though it doesn't feel like my usual type of entry. Well, if you read it, I hope it was at least somewhat enjoyable. Let me know what you think, ok? Comments are good!

~Sleet

Well, it's past 4 am.. Tried to sleep for a while, but can't. I don't know what it is, but I've always, pretty much for as long as I can remember, had trouble sleeping when I'm at home. If I'm at a friends place or camping or whatever, I always fall asleep way faster. That isn't to say that I fall asleep quickly, I'm usually the last to sleep, but still faster than if I'm at home. I think it has something to do with being around people, maybe. I don't really know. Maybe I just have an uncomfortable bed.. Well, no, I don't think that's it, cause I've changed beds at least once, though it was probably at least four or five years ago.. Actually, come to think of it, the reason I changed beds was because of having trouble sleeping when at home. Huh. Guess that theory failed.
It's probably because I can't stop thinking. I try, you know, I sort of try and clear my mind by thinking a litany of, like.. "Black, black, black, black.." or whatever, but I forget that I'm trying not to think of anything, and there I go again.
Yeah, it must have something to do with falling asleep by myself.
Sleeping pills don't seem to help, either.. well, at least the ones we have. I've tried taking them before bed, they just sort of make me feel sort of ill, sort of dizzy, after a while, then it's back to normal.
Milk doesn't seem to help, either, that I've noticed, nor does turkey.
Egh.

So Andrea's off in New York 'til Sunday.
Heh, Astrid, Thaddeus, Ayame, Alejandro, Cory, Mike, and I were all over at Mike's house this monday, hanging out. Astrid brought some homework along. Everyone was playing guitar hero, and I was sitting with Astrid.. I looked at my phone, it was about eight o'clock, which was about when Andrea was getting on her plane (I believe.)
I mentioned that, and Astrid asks, "You miss her already, don't you?"
My first thought was, "Wow, what a silly question. I missed her when she left the demo yesterday." I didn't say that. I think a minute or so later I just said, "Yeah." or something like that. I don't know, though, I never really say what's on my mind.
It sort of bugs me sometimes, actually. I mean, I get these thoughts that I ought to vocalize, like how Andrea's eyes remind me of the ocean, you know, when you see it on one of those days that sort of remind you of how, even though the ocean is pretty much eternal, it can still be fierce.
Oy, but see? They just sound so sappy and foolish, and.. I don't know, not quite right, it bugs me. So I don't say it.

So yeah, demo last Sunday. Not too many people there, but it was a beautiful day and we had fun, relaxing, doing a few SCA-related things, and just hanging out, mostly. Andrea wore the dress she had just finished sewing earlier that week. It was beautiful. I'm sort of terrible with compliments, I wish I could find appropriate words.. Sigh.. Well, I'm sure she understood. Pretty sure.

As far as fighters go, there was only myself, Tomas, Cordell, and Rayne. James was the only heavy fighter that showed up, so he didn't even bother bringing out his armour.
I had some really good fights with Cordell, I have to say. We both had some of those really neat looking kills, you know, where you end up in these strange poses at the end.. I had this one where I ended up getting him while I was on one knee, with my hilt beside my head, sword in prime.. Plus, we had a couple of those fights where as you're fighting, both people get legged, so you both keep fighting all the way down onto your knees, and you're probably a little closer than you should be, so it's just a constant flurry of blades, a veritable web of steel being woven.. I love those fights. Those are the sorts of fights I do all this for, those ones where.. by all rights one of you should be dead, but it just keeps going, and you can't figure out why you haven't been cut yet, and you're pretty sure that your mind has lost track of where his blade is, but your instinct is still keeping track of it, and guiding your own blade.. Those are the fights I seek out. Cordell's a great fighter, a few of my most memorable fights were with him. I still remember a couple of my fights from, must have been over two years ago, the first time I made it down to Ursulmas, when neither of us were carded, and we were fighting in a Pheonix Tourney they were holding down there.. I still remember hearing someone (no idea who) from the sidelines, during one of our fights, exclaiming, "Oooh, pretty moves."
Or, our last fight of that tournament (I think), we were fighting, and he got a cut in on my inside thigh, so I dropped to my knees.. I was getting ready, then I thought, "Wait, that cut was too high up.." So I toppled over dead. I still remember both of the marshalls, Cordell, and some spectators on the sidelines all exclaiming, "What?!" in unison. That made losing totally worth it.

Sigh... I miss Andrea. Yeah, I know, shut up. It's my journal, ok? If I miss Andrea, I'll say I miss Andrea. Jerks.
Oh well, it's technically Wednesday already, right? Sunday's only four days away.. That's not so long.

Wow, as I'm writing this, I look over at the adds on the side of the window, beside the panel where I'm writing.. I see advertisements for.. "Martial Arts Software", ".. a wide selection of premium SCA dealers." and "Tai Chi Philosophy Gear"
Philosophy.. gear? Martial arts software? Wow.. How half-assed is that?

Oy.. Well, it's past five o'clock now, and I'm still not ready to sleep, but I really ought to try..

Oh well. Goodnight, all.. or good morning, however you want to count it.

I guess that's entry eighteen. Hope it wasn't too long or boring, if you read the whole thing, well.. thanks, I guess.
See you around.

~Sleet

Hey there, devoted readers. I know what's been on your mind every waking moment, lately: What's going on in Sleet's life?! I HAVE TO KNOW!! TELL ME!!!
Ha ha, you guys are crazy, but I'll help you out, anyways, and let you know what I've been up to..

Well, let's see, let's see.. School, mostly. Essays are FUN.
Ok, so it's not all bad. I mean, this week's the last week of classes, so after that I've just got finals, and then I guess it's summer break.
My monologue presentation (Acting 111 final exam) is going to be pretty cool. I was assigned this bit where I'm some guy named 'Steve' who basically is telling someone about this woman he overheard talking in a diner, and he gets all pissed off and starts swearing and ranting. It's pretty entertaining.

I guess I'm going to be running a D&D game. That should be pretty fun, I've got some interesting characters I've been writing. I'll have to figure out who I'm going to ask to play, though. That can wait a little till school's wrapped up, though.

I've been spending as much time as I can with Andrea. Been trying to figure out what to get her for her birthday, which is coming up.. I've got an idea or two, nothing terribly terrific yet, though, but I won't talk about it here, because then she'd read it and that would spoil everything. =P Although, if any of you have any amazing ideas, don't be afraid to email me with them or something. >.> I know, I know, I should come up with something myself..

There's a few events coming up, which I will hopefully be able to make it to. Spring Coronet is in Lionsgate the weekend of the thirteenth, I think, so I might go to that, and Sir Eddy's is on the weekend of the twentyninth, and I'll do my best to make that event, as it's always a lot of fun. >.< Andrea's going to New York for ten(?) days, though, after that weekend, so if she can't make it, I probably won't end up going. Egh, I know she's going to have fun and all, but.. Ngh. I'll have to do my best not to be too mopey and whiney while she's gone, or else I might drive off all my friends, too.

Overall, though, things have been going pretty ok. Nothing monumentous has happened in the past week or so, really. I probably have an essay that I need to finish, or start, or something, so I had better go. Good talkin to you guys, though. Hope that'll tide you over till I have something else worth writing about.

Well, that's entry seventeen for you. Talk to you all later.

~Sleet

I said goodbye to Kat today. There was a going-away party yesterday, and that was good, but it was pretty impersonal, so I was really glad I got to see her today and say goodbye.
Kat, Andrea, Luther, Astrid, and I went to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in theatres today. If anyone is wondering, I recommend the movie very much so, at least if you're a turtles fan. It was cheesy and whatnot at parts, but then.. let's be honest, the turtles have always been cheesy. It did keep the spirits of the turtles very well, though, and one particular fight scene (you'll know it, on the roof, in the rain) was very cool. The plot was a little iffy, though, it felt sort of rushed, like the movie should have been longer, but whatever, I don't think the plot was really the point of the movie, it was more about the inter-character relations.
After the movie, we went and hung out in the Cottonwood Mall food court for a bit, then Andrea and I went and had supper at this cool Vietnamese place. The food was tasty. Then, because we couldn't think of anywhere to go for an hour before we were supposed to meet up at Kat's place, we just sort of drove over to a parking lot, watched the sunset, and spent a little time together. That was good. *At this point, Sleet spaced out and reminisced for two whole lines.*


Anyways, so then we went over to Kat's place. She was doing some packing still. The original plan was to play some Munchkin, but everyone sort of got sidetracked by reminiscing over various things, and so pretty soon it was time to go.
Oy.. I'm such a sap. It pisses me off sometimes. It took a long time to say goodbye. I felt a little selfish, really, but Kateryn's an important person to me, you have to understand. A lot of you who are reading this are in the SCA, and that's how you know me. You and I, we probably would have never met, if not for Kat, ok? It is her fault, see.
July 14th, 2004, I started in a training class at a new job (some of you know, and hate the place. I'll give you a hint, it starts with an 'S' and rhymes with.. bream. Yeah, like the fish.). Kat was starting in the same class. I thought she seemed like an interesting person, and tried to get to know her a little better. Found out about the SCA, and went to my first practise, not really because I was interested, but just cause I thought it would be an ok way to become friends with this new person. Met Richarde at my first practise, under the overpass in Lionsdale. Met Pierce and Tomas there, too, come to think of it. I actually introduced myself at the time as Madoc.
This past year (that is, 2006), she's been practically the only thing keeping me alive at events. If she hadn't been there I probably would have either starved, frozen, passed out from exhaustion, or worse.
We've had some good times, and some awesome times. Most of my favorite memories from 2006 are of hanging out with Kat. Her and I meeting up with Cordell at Sir Eddie's, eating crack-cookies and drinking whiskey.. Her and I coming back from some event, figuring, "Aw, what the hell? We don't need directions!" and getting lost, going in an hour-long freaking circle that lead back to that damned A&W! Gah! Stupid temporal marketing campaign..
Oy, the first time I met Astrid was while I was hanging out with Kat, well, obviously, them being sisters and all..
My point of view: Hanging out with Kat on New Years Eve, 'round three in the morning her parents get back, come say hi, and behind them is some weird little girl who looks sort of freaked out, then goes back upstairs.
Her point of view: Comes home on New Years Eve, sees some weird guy in her basement... What the hell?

Wouldn't have met Andrea if it weren't for Kat.

I've got no one to wrestle with or beat up on now, either. I have no urge whatsoever to throw any sort of blow at Andrea. Astrid would be too likely to actually get hurt, not because she's fragile or anything, but just because she wouldn't react at all and would just stare blinking at whatever I threw at her. Alejandro's too much of a girl, and would whine more than anyone else... Oy. >.<

So Kat gave Andrea a set of care instructions, and officially passed off her self-appointed 'charge'. I got all sappy and looked like a fool. And I won't see Kat again for over a year. Wow.. that last sentence was very hard to type out. Writing all this didn't help at all. I was really hoping it would, but now I just feel worse than before.. God I'm selfish.

Goodbye, Kat. I'm really going to miss you. You had better not do anything stupid, I mean it. If you get yourself hurt or anything, I'm gonna kick your ass, you know I will.
Oh.. shit. I've run out of tissue..
Look, I know you know I care about you, but I mean it, you come back in one piece.
I'm going to miss you. It's going to hurt sometimes. There are places and times that just.. aren't, without you there. You know them as well as I do.

See you in a year..
I'm going to miss you.

Goodbye, Kat.

In my Linguistics class, I learned that the human language is both creative and infinite. This means that almost every day, you will use different combinations of words that you have never used before, that possibly no one has ever used before, and yet... you won't even notice that you're doing it, it probably won't be significant at all.
For some reason, it seems to me, that some of the most important sentences are the ones that have been used hundreds, thousands, millions of times before, and more. They stick around for a reason, I guess.
And even though uncountable people have used these words before I did, or you did, that doesn't decrease their meaning or importance even one little bit. Isn't it amazing?

Three

Little

Words.


Entry fifteen, Valentines Day, 2007.
This year has been full of important days.

Isn't it just... amazing?


Addendum... Happiness
And she says, "I love your laugh."

Good night, good night..

February 7, 2007.
February seventh, two-thousand and seven.
This is an important day.
I will remember it, probably forever.
February seventh.
One week before Valentines day.

Entry fourteen.

Goodnight.

Hey guys. I know, it's been a while since I posted. I've been fairly busy.
Today was interesting. Went to auditions for the UCFV director's festival. Ended up paired with Astrid. The skit we were given to perform for the audition was short and crappy, but we made the best of it. I think the actual part where we got to talk to the directors and they asked us questions and stuff went a lot better than the actual performing. I think at least one of them may have been interested. Astrid really talked me up to them, as well. That was somewhat amusing.
I didn't get to see Andrea much today, which was disappointing. I did talk with her for quite a while on MSN last night. It was a good conversation, I think. I got some things off my chest I needed to say, and didn't know that I needed to say. I feel a little better now, which is not to say that I wasn't feeling good already.. I can picture myself as an old man remebering the good old days, and these are totally them. I need to remember to soak up as much of this as I can, live each moment and all that, you know? Yeah.
When I started this thing, I wanted it just as a place for me to talk, not to post online quiz things and all that, though I suppose there is precedent, but this one amused me, especially as I tried to answer the questions as honestly as I could.

The Harlequin You scored 13% Cardinal, 51% Monk, 52% Lady, and 51% Knight!

You are a mystery, a jack-of-all-trades. You have the king's ear, but also listen to murmurings of the common folk. You believe in the value of force and also literature. Truly you are the puzzlement of the age.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Cardinal You scored higher than 99% on Monk You scored higher than 99% on Lady You scored higher than 99% on Knight

Link: The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test written by KnightlyKnave on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

How about that..
Well anyways, I have class in the morning and should be asleep already.
So that's entry thirteen for you, not a whole lot of actual writing on my part, but I'll try and come back soon and talk in a little more detail about something. Hopefully something interesting. We'll see how life goes, I guess.
Thanks for visiting.
~Sleet

Astrid, I need to talk to you. I need a bitch-out, badly. I mean.. The only thing stopping me from posting a huge rant on the Lionsdale forums right now is that I know I should bitch this out with you first. So I'm giving you dibs on this one. Please, please, please, as soon as you read this, call me. I don't care if you're up at 4 in the morning cause you're crazy, and you do things like that, and you hop on the computer for a moment and see this then, call me. I might be a little pissed at first, but I'm telling you to do this, so it's ok, and you can totally rub it in my face, ok? But yeah, give me a call so we can arrange a bitching time, cause if I don't get one arranged, and I'm like hanging out with Andrea or something, it might slip and I might get ranting, and you know, I can't stop at that point.
Anyways, topics I will be raging about will be:
The Princess Armories: We went there to bring everyone together. I will explain why it is failing.
The Fish and Game club: Why I hate it and it needs to stop being used because it is crap. Arg, see? I'm ranting in my explanations of the rants! This is not good!
On a lesser note, also: Arts and Sciences people and why they are laaame. (Elspeth and Ayame, I am totally pointing at you guys right now. [Kidding.])

Seriously, though, if you're reading this right now, stop. Call me.
Have you called me? Are you still reading this without calling me? Don't do that. You seriously need to call me right now.
Oh man, if you haven't called yet, and you're reading this, I'm totally going to punch you in the face. Next time you see me, you'll be all, "Hey Slee-OH MY FACE!! OW! YOU JUST PUNCHED MY FACE, WITH YOUR FIST, AND THE PUNCHINGS JESUS WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?!"
I don't want it to come to that.

Looking forwards to talking to you! Yay, happiness!

On a brighter note: Today was awesome, or at least the portion of today I choose to remember. Andrea came by in her hot new ride and took me for a drive. Afterwards, there was some forest-walking. Not as in moving trees, more like us moving between trees, on a path of sorts, which is to say, a path. There weren't really any sorts that it would have been of, it's just more fun to say it that way until you realize that that's overcomplicated and basically wrong. It was just a path. Between trees. Near my old elementary school.. stupid bastards. "HEY. WHAT ARE YOU DOING, READING? DON'T YOU KNOW, AS A SCHOOL, IT IS OUR DUTY APPARENTLY TO DISCOURAGE READING?!" Arg.
But I am sidetracked. The walking was nice, and enjoyable, if a bit chilly.
Then, tonight, I caught a ride with Pierce, Lav..Lava..Lavanya? Oy. I don't know. Anyways, Pierce, Lavvy, and Alejandro out to the Cloverdale fight practise. Really it was just us and Tamara fighting, but Guido was there not fighting, but still providing advice and whatnot, and that was nice. And it's always good to fight Pierce, I always come away having learned something.
Then I had some re-heated KFC and started typing.

And that wraps up entry twelve, which has ended up not feeling like much of an entry, compared to some of the others, but it's good to get some of that off my chest. Oh man, and Astrid, if you haven't called me, I am so kicking your ass. Metaphorically. What?

Goodnight.

~Sleet

Well, first official date, at least.
What a spectacular day.
Woke up, hung out with Mike and Cory for a while. Picked up Andrea 5:25ish.
Her parents ambushed me at the door. >.> Well, I think that went alright. They said they remembered me from the Tempest.
I hope that's a good thing.
We went to the Wildcat Grill for dinner. I had chicken alfredo, it was delicious. She had a tomato soup and some sort of cheese and chicken sandwich-wrap type thing.
After dinner, we rented "Mirrormask" and headed back here to watch it. It was a really good movie, pretty funny. Rather strange, though, but I suppose that's typical for something from Neil Gaiman. It seemed like all the actors were perfect for the parts.
C:"You need to tell me the answer to that riddle."
H:"You give up?"
C:"Well, sort of.. I mean, I'm sure I'll know the answer, once you tell me."
H:"Oh, well, it's uh.. a herring."
C:"A herring isn't green!"
H:"You could paint it green."
C:"A herring doesn't hang on the wall!"
H:"You could nail it to the wall."
C:"A herring.. doesn't.. Whistle!"
H:"Oh, well, I just threw that in there so that it wouldn't be too obvious!"

After that we watched the last few episodes of Hellsing. Then, half an hour after that, I had to take her home.
After I came back, I had a little talk with my mom, and let her know about Andrea.
Now don't give me that look, I told you before, I really don't talk to my parents very much, alright? Especially not about personal things.
Well anyways she was ecstatic.
So, that's the basic rundown of tonight. It doesn't really come across properly in text, though. Oh well. I'm ready to sleep now, so sleep is what I shall do.
Oh yeah, I'm over that cold. It only really bugged me for like two days. What a pansy cold. But I'm glad, because I really did not want to be sick.
I'm really looking forwards to the summer. You know, being able to lie outside in the sun during the day, and watch the stars at night. I'm looking forwards to events like Sir Eddies, and Lionsdale Champions..
I hope the rest of this year is as good as this first month.

Well, hope entry eleven wasn't too bad. I'll talk to you the next time something interesting happens.
Good night!

Hey there. What a dreary tuesday..
Well.. I'm sick. Lacking energy, runny nose, nasty taste in the back of my throat, all that good stuff. Eh. Taken vitamins and all that, I'm sure I'll recover quickly. I'm feeling better now than I did this morning, so that's good.
Egh. I'm supposed to be writing a 750-word essay for English 105 right now, but I'm having difficulty starting it, so I'm procrastinating by writing in here. Maybe it'll get those writing thoughts a-flowing or something. Yeah.
Yesterday was a pretty good day, aside from the onsetting of this sickness.
Had class in the morning, that passed fairly quickly. Went out for lunch with Andrea, then we wandered around the mall for a little bit. I asked her out on a date for this Friday.
So.. How does that work, exactly? Going on a date, that is. Am I supposed to act differently, or something? Cause that would be silly. Help me out, guys and gals, ok? Bweh. Hopefully we're both feeling better before then, apparently she was feeling sick last night as well. I blame the mall. >.<
But yeah, we wandered for a while, she kept trying to find clothes to make me try on, but couldn't find anything that suited me. Whew.
Then she had a dentist's appointment, so I went and hung out at Mike's house. Watched Taladega Nights, that was pretty funny. Apparently I was a little delirious, though, while I was there. I guess Mike was talking to me, but I didn't really hear him, and apparently I was babbling on for a while. I don't know what that was all about. Eventually, it was time to head to practise, though.
Something was up with Andrea during archery, but she got over it so all was well. I think.
I was feeling pretty sapped of energy by practise-time, though, so after a few passes with Kateryn, I decided to stop for the evening. Relaxed until a bunch of us headed to Decades. It was a pretty subdued evening, but it felt like it ended too soon.
Oh yeah. I also glomped Elspeth, and she screamed. That was amusing. :P

Well, I guess that about wraps up entry ten. I feel like I'm missing something, but oh well. I'll come back if I remember what it is.
Ciao for now.

Well.. Today was.. I mean.. Hm. Wow. I don't really know where to start, so I'll start at the beginning, which I guess means I actually do know where to start.
So the beginning of today, I guess, was yesterday, see, with a little backstory. Alejandro wanted me to pick him up this morning, so last night we agree I'll pick him up at 9:15 am, and he says that that means he'll be waking up at 8:15.
So this morning I wake up at around 7-ish, get ready, all that. Check the forums, too. I see that it says that Opening Court is at 9:30, and lists are open after that.
I think, "Hey, I wouldn't mind being on time for opening court, and if Alewhohoe was up at 8:15 I'm sure he'll be ready, too." So I leave my place at about 8:40, get to his around 8:53. He's in the shower. Apparently the barstard (that was intentional) didn't wake up till 8:45. Anyways we get there in time for opening court, regardless, and court lasts a whole of maybe 2 minutes. Sign in for lists, and now the waiting game.. Andrea showed up before long, and presented me with a beautiful favor she had made from the same fabric as her dress, and embroidered with the initials "S A" and a little snowflake. It's interesting, though, because if you know us, the initials S A can stand for more than a few things. Sleet Avery, Sleet and Andrea, and another besides.
Andrea was helping with lists, which was cool, because it meant I was guaranteed to see her after each fight. Once everyone was signed up, we had eleven fighters, all together. I'll list all I can remember.. Richarde, Lucien, Siobhan, Esteban, Thane Einar (Oak), Godfrey, Alejandro, Cordell, Luther, Rayne, and myself.
The fights were just.. amazing.
So, I think I solved that energy problem I was talking about.
Before the tournament started, I got armored up, took my sword and buckler, and went and found a place where people wouldn't be likely to disturb me to do some meditating. While I was meditating, I thought again on the issue of energy. It's been on my mind a lot since Monday.
Now, when I meditate, I generally try to push out any unnecessary thoughts, and just focus on this field of black. I never really noticed that I focused specifically on this field of black, but it's what I do. Sort of like a big, flat, black velvet curtain. So I was thinking about how I want to have this energy while fighting, but not while waiting between fights, because that would just be a waste and wear me out too quickly. So I thought, first I need to be able to make myself calm on command. Well.. I have this field of black that is me. What is calm, to me? White. White is serene, pristine, calm, and perfect. So, against that field of black, I set a white disc, radiating waves of whiteness that would spread out and fade away, over and over. So, I did that, and I was calm. Great, I thought. This is working. But.. what represents that energy that I want, then? I didn't want an angry energy.
I have this odd thing.. there have been a few occaisions in the past where I've just out of nowhere started fighting ridiculously well, and while doing so, I just can't stop laughing. It's a weird thing, and I wonder afterwards how it must have seemed from my opponents point of view.. Rayne said to Mattieu once, recently, "One thing about Sleet.. If you see him fighting, and he starts laughing.. Watch out. Because that's when he gets really dangerous."
Also, Sebastion said to me once something along the lines of, "You know, I've never seen you smile like you do when you're fighting, it's weird."
So I was meditating, focusing on this white, radiant disc, and thinking about good energy, and I thought that the best representation of that I could think of was the color yellow. So, I continued to focus on that disc of white, setting it in the back of my mind, and when I had my first match, once I stepped into the eric, the field of black disappeared, the disc of white disappeared, and all was replaced by yellow, glowing energy. And I'd look across the eric and see Andrea sitting there at lists. And it worked. It was like a trigger, click, and I was ready to go. So I won my first fight. Left the eric, resumed the disc of white on a field of black. When it was time for my second fight, back came the yellow. And I won my second fight. And my third, fourth, fifth.
By the end of the round robin portion of the tournament, I had seven wins, two double-kills and one loss (to Richarde.).
The semi-finalists were:
Luther and Richarde with eight kills each.
Myself, with seven kills.
Godfrey, with five kills.
Unfortunately, Godfrey, as Champion of Lionsgate, was unable to compete for the title of Lionsdale's Champion, and so yielded at this point, to be replaced by.. I think it was Thane Einar. Not certain. At any rate, I was paired against Richarde, and he beat me again in the Semi-finals, going on to be defeated by Luther, who is our new Rapier Champion.
I am so happy with how I fought. I have never, ever fought that well before. And the best part is, it felt like something that I did, like.. it wasn't a fluke.
What I mean is.. Going into tournaments in the past, against people like Godfrey, Esteban, Cordell, Luther, all of them. I used to go into tournaments feeling like.. these guys have been fighting way longer than me. Everything I've learned, they already know, and though I might win, I don't have the chances they have.
But today, fighting them, I felt like.. I am, at worst, an equal to you. I've got technique that you don't have, and you had better be careful of me as a fighter, because I'll take you apart.
And that's what happened, too. Because, by the end of the tournament, the only person who beat me in a fight, was Richarde. The only one. I double killed with two other people, but no one else beat me.
I killed Luther. I killed Godfrey. I killed Esteban and Cordell and Rayne. And I had fun in all of them, and that's the most important part.
There are other parts of the fighting I could talk about, like the death-off I had with Thane Einar, or the ritualistic single-sword fight I had with Rayne, both of which the audience seemed to really enjoy, but those are things that you should have been there to see.
I was really happy to see that almost everyone fell down and died when they lost a match. That's really, really cool, because there are some events where someone gets stabbed, turns around and leaves the field, and really? Why should the audience bother sticking around to watch if you're going to do that? I hope that maybe I've helped our community a bit in that way, at least, maybe encouraged people to die just a little better. Ha ha ha.
I got to present the best death award to Thane Einar in court, and he totally deserved it. I have to admit, I feel a slight wrenching in my chest, now that my streak was broken. Still, 6 best death's in a row is nothing to scoff at.
I got to spend a lot of time with Andrea today, which was.. Well, I mean.. I didn't want to leave. I miss her already. It's disgusting, I know. Shut up. What did I say before? Huh? If you don't like it, you can just get out, ok? Jeeze. Jerks.
Seriously, though, I wouldn't have fought nearly as well if it weren't for her.
Andrea is truly inspiring to me.
The rest of the night was good as well. Alejandro, Luther, Astrid, Ayame, Gordon, William, Andrea and I all went for dinner at Boston Pizza. That was fun. Then we went back for the rest of the evening. Played some games, played some drums.
I'd totally go into greater detail, but I'm freaking exhausted. I poured so much energy into the fighting today.. There's not a lot of me left right now. I need to hibernate for a few hours, at least.
And I know I'm leaving some things out, like the interesting dances I learned.. Oh man that Israeli Sailor's dance was fun, and totally suited me.
Ok, but seriously, I go to sleep now.
Oh, and if you want to use my meditation technique, feel free, and I'd absolutely love to know if it works out for you, because I made it myself and am kind of proud of it.

Well, thanks for keeping me company through entry nine. Today was an important day for me, and if I keep this up, and continue to improve from here.. who knows. This has been a great boost to my confidence.
See you next time.