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New Glasses!
Jan. 26th, 2009 09:52 pm
Bet you didn't know I even wore glasses...because I don't. Most of the time. This time around, I finally got new backup glasses. They will probably never see the light of day again, but I wore them for the rest of the day that I got them, because they deserve at least that much.
I do like them. I was having a hard time figuring out what, if any, glasses looked good on me. All the women's styles have shifted to the thick, dark frame, and I had no idea a'tall what shape or color I wanted. Fortunately, another woman tried this pair on, and I went over and asked her which pair she'd just been wearing....
The last time I bought glasses must have been...wow. Ten years ago? No wonder they were in the wrong prescription and very bent and scratched up.
Grappling is Fun!
Nov. 3rd, 2007 03:00 pm
Grappling class this morning, but this photo was from earlier. No, I was not attacked by the 80's. That's just what my hair looked like after a vigorous grappling session. It started out in a very tidy braid, too.
Class was very good this morning, though I had to overcome Phil's usual attempts at blackmailing me into not going (threats of abandoning me at home for the day). It's a wearying uphill battle, and that's even without how bad he gets with the threats of "making me quit" whenever a) I'm injured, or b) somebody else in class is injured badly enough for me to mention it (yeah, I should really remember not to do that). Like the other woman who broke a couple of bones in her hand while grappling during one of the classes I was home sick.
But class was good. Lots of positioning work. We've got a small tournament coming up next Saturday, and I'll be competing in position grappling and sparring. No forms, and I'm not good at submission grappling--I only know a couple of locks.
And I got to grapple other people today! Usually I end up grappling with the female assistant instructors, which is...discouraging, at times. Because most of the time I'm the only girl in my class, and for various "guys are squeamish" reasons, we usually stay segregated by gender, though I've had a couple of classes where I've grappled a guy. It was fun. Guys are less bendy and much easier to get locks on. Also, you know me...of *course* I'd like wrestling a guy into a submission lock!
Photograph: Scratch
Mar. 7th, 2007 05:59 pm
Meant to document a scratch I got on the forehead from sparring, but really a testimony to a) how dark my house is in the evening, and b) my very sad lack of martial arts-related photos of myself. Guess I'll have to hunt through the seminar photos when they're up and see if I can find one in which I'm not making a total idiot of myself.
Author Photo
Aug. 19th, 2006 04:40 pm
The author photo for my story, "Blood for Oil," to be published in the September 2006 issue of Allegory Magazine (website not active yet), formerly Peridot Books.
I figured it was appropriate to have my author photo be one in which I'm looking a bit strange.
