November Day 11

This will have no knitting in it, you were warned.

Today and most of yesterday I helped to put on an unofficial naginata seminar. There were the regular drills that one always does, then there were the variations and the new things to learn. Some things that I learned were corrections on things that I had been taught that were wrong. We also learned some game that are very fun to play and watch people play. At the end of each day there was a practice test to see how much people improved and what they needed to still work on, I was announcing what was going on. I didn't do too badly at it either, I did mess up every so often though. Pictures time.

Naginata games = amusement

rock paper scissors

Warming up on the second day

I will put of the video of part of the first day that I took as well as the pictures of the beaver that I took tonight later. No knitting was completed this weekend, no spinning.

November Day 10

Very tired, help run a successful naginata seminar/long practice today. Some video and pictures will be posted soon. Much has been learned and people have improved so much over what they had been.

Exams

The end of the semester is here. That means exams and final papers. All done with my exams and my short story, just need to pack my room and leave and I will be done for the semester.

No I am not dancing in my room, maybe I should. Sleep depravation has a tendency to make me weirder than normal. I checked my naginata against my bed, the naginata is longer than the bed; it was about half a foot difference. Not sure why I decided that I had to check.

Little bit of explanations for finals for those not at my college. Finals time at my college is where people sometimes lock themselves into their work places and only leave to take final exams, pass stuff in, eat and go to the bathroom. Showering is sometimes left by the wayside, yes I do shower regularly. Also in the dorms from the start of reading days to the end of exam periods we have constant M&C's (Milk and Cookies, there are generally not that many cookies); the best part of this is that the access to caffeine goes up so less sleep is required.

Part of my plans for the Summer is to make myself an army

Not an army like Loki's, an army of Weeping Angels from Doctor Who.

My army of crocheted minions will happen, then I will take over my room, maybe my brothers, not sure about my plans for conquest yet.

Other than that I will attempt to finish some of my current knitting projects, like my sweater.

In other news, the naginata club had its end of the semester dinner last week. It was very sad, we said goodbye to my first Captain and it was horrible, she can't leave.

The team minus a couple

I gave her the shawl that I knit for her and she liked it.

Then I went to my brothers graduation. I need to get my Mom to send me the pictures. I had to buy some new shoes, so I bought some leather ankle boots with heels that are glorious. The actual ceremony was boring the only highlight was geting to listen to General Colin Powell speak. He was amusing and a very good speaker. Other than that it was boring, long and you couldn't see anything.

This was about how I felt

Weird stuff I have done

Most of what I do in my spare time is sleep, that is because I don't really have spare time but, every so often there is something that I have to do as part of a club or just cause I can. Today it was narrate at a naginata demo during a Sakura Matsuri at Smith College. To get to Smith I rode the bus in full uniform complete with dragonfly patch and name tag. It was rather fun, slightly odd sitting in the seats because the knots of the hakama dig in if the seat has a back. Once I got to Smith and the club and I got all of our stuff together they demonstrated stuff and I narrated. I was rather fun.

There was food as well, I got to make onigiri for the first time, they were rather tasty and fun to make. Also you could eat mochi and drink barley tea. The tea was quite good.

The naginata club was selling pocky to fundraise and did quite well in that. There were a couple of people who had brought a collection of kimono and yukata for people to dress up in. I got to wear a kimono and it was rather comfy. A kimono is generally silk and lined while a yukata is cotton and unlined (generally).

I also got bored and the Friday before I dyed my ponytail blue. See the two tones of my hair in the above pictures, that is the cause. 

On the knitting front I am crocheting a shawl for myself to wear to my brothers college graduation. It is red and is lace. I am using some red yarn that I got on sale at Webs. Pictures will come later.