Wow I suck at updating. This was supposed to be written during J-term but today is the first day of classes instead.
J-Term is part of winter break at Mt. Holyoke College where we students can come back early and take fun classes and hangout with friends. This J-term I took no classes but did spend time with all of my friends who were here. This time included visiting every free bin on campus and getting clothing and other fun things, so much better then shopping. Some of my friends as a joke put 5 floor lamps into another friends room for her to find.
In other interesting news, I am now the proud owner of a Nintendo DS that I bought second hand off a friend; the DS has been wonderful to play with.
In naginata news, j-term was highly productive, two of the kohai went into bogu for the first time and learned some new kamae out of bogu as well as some happoburi. We also had a couple of practices that were preceded by vigorous sandings of all of the habu (blades) so that splinters could be removed and to check on how much damage has been done so that we can know what habu are more likely to break. Me and the captain got to practice the engi forms 6-8 which was very nice as I am extremely rusty on those.
On the knitting side, I crocheted a cowl for cold weather, worked on my sweater, started a cover from my DS, started a hat that is supposed to be for someone (I get paid) but due to not getting details on the hat am unable to finish the hat base before adding cat features, and my Dad's birthday present. I deconstructed a scarf I found in the free bin and have been using the yarn and the yarn knits and crochets up quite nicely.
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| Case for Nintendo DS |
The weather right now is rather bipolar, we had approximately 6 inches of snow in total and most of it has disappeared from heat and rain. We have had more unseasonably warm days than normal weather which is really annoying. The warmth is rather nice in the sense of I can go outside without a winter jacket on, of course this is offset by the fact that the windows in my room seem to be sucking all of the heat out.
Saw the second season of Sherlock (BBC) and could they have made that scene any longer. It was painful enough but then we had to stretch it out for as long as possible to make the ending as horrible as possible, and what is with that cemetery scene, really you are going to do that to us and then end the season.
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| Sherlock Holmes and John Watson |
The actor who plays Watson will be Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit movie and the actor who plays Sherlock will be Smaug apparently
And because I get amusement in weird places:
