birds in the frosty air/what are they doing there?

[bliumchik]

Hee, I have finally followed through on my resolution to actually do things with TROUTS, my uni's theatre group, this year. I totally flaked on them last year! But yesterday I went to the auditions for the short play night and I have a part! Then I went to my Escrima class via a burger and Easyway, which was probably not the BEST idea as far as my stomach was concerned. This week had a lot more contact, too, which was a little nerve-wracking - I don't have a problem with other people hitting me, I have a problem with hitting other people! I have absolutely no ability to judge how hard I have connected and whether it was appropriate, nor much control, so I'm always worried I'm going to hit too hard, which in practice means I never hit hard enough. And that's quite apart from the slow-motion shoulder disabling moves - I thought this class was nicely challenging to my touching-people-issues when there was just a custom of shaking hands with everybody after the class! My sparring partner did not have these issues and was quite happy to whack me repeatedly, but got confused about footwork when it was time to spin around and elbow me in the kidneys, which was lucky because I don't think all that iced tea was going to be fortuitous in that respect.

In other news, Stan linked me to this. Not only a hear hear! But also the last video is pretty great. I did not know Frank Zappa was so awesome, nor did I know that Crossfire used to be... uh, marginally classy, wow. That thing was taped on an actual tape though, heh.

Okay, back to checking over my film review assignment for today. I seem to have gone over the word limit... oops? (Yes, I am reviewing Watchmen, why do you ask?)