Ugh!
Still getting over this bug.
Throat feels a little less hellish. I sound a little less like the creature from the Black Lagoon (if he smoked since childhood and habitually chased razor blades with shot glasses of battery acid)my apologies to anyone whos tried having a phone conversation with me this week.
On the good news I lost four pounds todayof mucus.
Im giving...
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Still getting over this bug.
Throat feels a little less hellish. I sound a little less like the creature from the Black Lagoon (if he smoked since childhood and habitually chased razor blades with shot glasses of battery acid)my apologies to anyone whos tried having a phone conversation with me this week.
On the good news I lost four pounds todayof mucus.
Im giving...
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Oh man
You know when you go through an extended period of punishing your body busy and little sleep and then you get through the ordeal (hopefully smiling) and then, its as though your immune systems foreman blows the whistle and says, OK gang, closing time!
Yeah
Im feverish and everything hurts (more so than the usual combat class pains).
But Im happy.
Im wearing...
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You know when you go through an extended period of punishing your body busy and little sleep and then you get through the ordeal (hopefully smiling) and then, its as though your immune systems foreman blows the whistle and says, OK gang, closing time!
Yeah
Im feverish and everything hurts (more so than the usual combat class pains).
But Im happy.
Im wearing...
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ladymaze:
Crystal ball? Coooool.
olsen:
Hail naked people. How's that?
I LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wowthat is a load off. Even my Cherry Coke (I rewarded myself with a sugary cola) tastes triumphant shot of caffeine and ego, firing my synapses at the speed of sound.
I just got through the most rigorous three weeks of my life. Three weeks of exercising and fighting all day (sometimes at night as well).fighting for 7 15 hours a day. Along...
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Wowthat is a load off. Even my Cherry Coke (I rewarded myself with a sugary cola) tastes triumphant shot of caffeine and ego, firing my synapses at the speed of sound.
I just got through the most rigorous three weeks of my life. Three weeks of exercising and fighting all day (sometimes at night as well).fighting for 7 15 hours a day. Along...
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Moans and groans and dozens of new positions...what could I be up to??? 
Ahhhh.not much time for posting. If Im not at Stage Combat PracticeIm practicing after hours, icing and fixing the bodily damage Im sustaininggetting a few laughs/drinks/movies in with the other studentsor sleeping. Heres some random stuff from the week.
-Learning things like aikido roles, falls, punches, kicks, flipping each other over (without...
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Ahhhh.not much time for posting. If Im not at Stage Combat PracticeIm practicing after hours, icing and fixing the bodily damage Im sustaininggetting a few laughs/drinks/movies in with the other studentsor sleeping. Heres some random stuff from the week.
-Learning things like aikido roles, falls, punches, kicks, flipping each other over (without...
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Its been 4 days of intense stage combatand I feel like Ive been here for several weeks.
Yesterday was painful. Very painful. The instructor said that was the day that would be painful. The whole class moved like the geriatric. But weve sort of eclipsed that. Our muscles are starting to catch up, our bodies a little more flexible.
But I have another pain. Three...
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Yesterday was painful. Very painful. The instructor said that was the day that would be painful. The whole class moved like the geriatric. But weve sort of eclipsed that. Our muscles are starting to catch up, our bodies a little more flexible.
But I have another pain. Three...
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elora1:
i'm telling you, i totally jealous of these kick-ass classes you're taking!
ladymaze:
I'm just a big ol' book geek. I mean, I'm a very small person, but I manage to pack a lot of geek into my little frame. 
Im very tiredso heres some fragmented recollections
Drove to Kentucky over the weekend to see my teacher and one of my writing mentors, Nancy Perkins, get married. The drive was long and, at 3am, a very cute girl at the Super 8 Hotel desk complemented my fedora. Ah road crushesso ethereal.
At the wedding I saw some fellow writing students and former teachers. Many people...
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Drove to Kentucky over the weekend to see my teacher and one of my writing mentors, Nancy Perkins, get married. The drive was long and, at 3am, a very cute girl at the Super 8 Hotel desk complemented my fedora. Ah road crushesso ethereal.
At the wedding I saw some fellow writing students and former teachers. Many people...
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elora1:
oh my! you are busy! how fucking fun is stage combat? i am so jealous. that sounds awesome.
extra good luck on your novel contest. that is also uber exciting. yay for you!
extra good luck on your novel contest. that is also uber exciting. yay for you!
ladymaze:
I am fine and eccentric, indeed.
I don't have a necklace of bone beads, but I do have a small collection of animal bones.
I don't have a necklace of bone beads, but I do have a small collection of animal bones.
Fundamentalism n. The deep and horrible fear that somewhere, someone is having fun.
So I am indeed heading to Eureka on Monday, to begin stage combat training. Its pretty intense, 8 to 5 every day for three weeks (sans weekends). Ill be all set for Pirates of the Caribbean III 
Ill be living in my old dorm buildinglike old times.
Also, today, I got back in touch with Daina,
the surrealist artist in Chicago who said that shed...
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Ill be living in my old dorm buildinglike old times.
Also, today, I got back in touch with Daina,
the surrealist artist in Chicago who said that shed...
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Im back in Northern IL!!!
There are trees here. Chicagos close enough that I think I might be able to smell it.
Ahbut it looks like, unexpectedly, I will be heading back to Central Illinois come Monday. A few friends (and my brother) signed up for a three week stage combat class at my former undergrad school, Eureka College, with some expert trainer that they...
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There are trees here. Chicagos close enough that I think I might be able to smell it.
Ahbut it looks like, unexpectedly, I will be heading back to Central Illinois come Monday. A few friends (and my brother) signed up for a three week stage combat class at my former undergrad school, Eureka College, with some expert trainer that they...
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ladymaze:
Pirates arrrr very cool, and sexy, too.
nevermore_66:
Well shiver me timbers!!!
Havent had time to fool around with that seductive harlot, the internet, in quite some time. A busy weekthere is too muchlet me sum up
-The weekend before last I reached a higher peak of drunkenness then ever I climbed. Its a dizzying view from that height. Sorry TorrieI didnt mean to drink your whole bottle of expensive liqueur. In my mind, at the time,...
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-The weekend before last I reached a higher peak of drunkenness then ever I climbed. Its a dizzying view from that height. Sorry TorrieI didnt mean to drink your whole bottle of expensive liqueur. In my mind, at the time,...
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elora1:
wow! you have a lot going on! just wanted to stop in and say hi! i hope you are doing well.
ladymaze:
See, you're making it too complicated!