Day 827: Top of the World
Oct. 30th, 2009 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nagi_schwarzSeriously. That's how I've felt all day. This morning was the best trial I've ever had. I absolutely nailed my cross - for the first time. Ever. I was cool-headed and decisive. I managed to not make faces when people made stupid objections. Okay, so I got objected to on closing and it threw me, but I recovered. Then I laid down an objection something fierce on Dan's closing - and it actually got sustained! I'm so used to getting overruled or withdrawing in the face of an awesome answer, and...wow. I was on my game today. I can only hope I'm as good during the actual competition, you know? And that I'm equally good tomorrow. Also, Vanessa won that 106 argument we've been trying to push past a hearsay objection all week, which made me smile.
After trial practice I got lunch - talked with the gang in the corner some - and then set about getting copies made for trial team. Trial team is some serious tree-murder. Colleen, the copy master, joked about us shooting down trees. Which we might as well do, for how much paper we use. I did some research for one of my classes, then took a nap, and woke just in time for the copies to get done, so I did some monster highlighting, and then I was hyper and crazy - too much chocolate - during the whole kids trick-or-treating thing.
I did not go do baptisms as my biology thought it'd be funny to conspire against me, but I did go to ninjitsu. Stayed for the whole three hours. It was pretty much all rolling - to warm up - and then combat techniques. So many of them. I stayed for the adult class, and since everyone else was blue belt or higher, they were teaching some pretty scary stuff. Curtis and I threw down pretty hard, and I fell improperly a couple of times, and I'm more sore than I've been in a while, but...it feels pretty darn good, you know? To have worked so hard. I'll be back in time for testing, too, and I'm crazy hoping I will pass.
I just need to train more. I miss, more than anything, having a training partner. I miss it a lot. I need to not be so lazy after school and get out on the mat and just train. Urk.
But - today was a pretty awesome day: good in trial, lots of candy, and fun on the mats.
Hopefully what I did today will carry over to tomorrow.
After trial practice I got lunch - talked with the gang in the corner some - and then set about getting copies made for trial team. Trial team is some serious tree-murder. Colleen, the copy master, joked about us shooting down trees. Which we might as well do, for how much paper we use. I did some research for one of my classes, then took a nap, and woke just in time for the copies to get done, so I did some monster highlighting, and then I was hyper and crazy - too much chocolate - during the whole kids trick-or-treating thing.
I did not go do baptisms as my biology thought it'd be funny to conspire against me, but I did go to ninjitsu. Stayed for the whole three hours. It was pretty much all rolling - to warm up - and then combat techniques. So many of them. I stayed for the adult class, and since everyone else was blue belt or higher, they were teaching some pretty scary stuff. Curtis and I threw down pretty hard, and I fell improperly a couple of times, and I'm more sore than I've been in a while, but...it feels pretty darn good, you know? To have worked so hard. I'll be back in time for testing, too, and I'm crazy hoping I will pass.
I just need to train more. I miss, more than anything, having a training partner. I miss it a lot. I need to not be so lazy after school and get out on the mat and just train. Urk.
But - today was a pretty awesome day: good in trial, lots of candy, and fun on the mats.
Hopefully what I did today will carry over to tomorrow.
