Good few days

Yeah, had a good few days.

Wednesday I woke up sick - just a cold, but a pretty severe one, and I didn't want to go out into the cold morning like that. So I stayed home from school, getting back into bed. About midday I'm feeling better so I get up - got a sleep in and a day off, score.

Wednesday evening I go down to the dojo for training. Normal class, we run through some escapes and offensive/defensive combinations - sets of techniques that start from a specific point, usually the other guy grabbing a specific part of your body (for escapes), attempting to strike (for defensives), or with nothing going on at the time (for offensives). I remember all of them and walk out happy with how I've done. BJJ class, I learn two (2!) new techniques - one a grab that gets you from standing facing your partner to behind him holding his waist with one arm and one of his arms with the other, and one a series of transitions that lets you move through a couple of different positions while controlling the other guy - starting in a mount (sitting on their waist with your legs hooked into theirs), then going into a side control position (lying on their chest with one elbow pushing their head towards you and the other arm holding their waist, legs either out like you're doing a push-up or pressed into their side), then switching around them to be in a side control position on the other side, then coming back into mount. The overall idea is to keep weight on their chest the whole way, and it really works - you just can't get up with another guy's weight on you.

Then we have Chinese for dinner. I like Chinese.

Thursday, it's a student free day, so I get up as late as possible, whereupon I chat to a few friends and end up deciding to play some TF2. At about 11:30 AM I get an email from 'WoW Expansion Beta.' "Huh," I say, and open it up. Sure enough, it's legit, and within an hour or so I'm in the WLK beta (woot!). I spend the rest of the day playing, and end up clearing all the quests in Borean Tundra bar one that needs some engineer-crafted item to do, running the Nexus once, and then parking myself in Howling Fjord. At this point I'm about 3 bars from 72 and have stayed up later than I probably should have. Over the course of the day I eat what Chinese food didn't get eaten Wednesday night (about half of it, actually).

Friday, I manage to get up on time, to my great surprise, and make it to school with plenty of time to spare. It's an ordinary school day. I have more fun playing cards at lunch break than is proper, eat what is called a bacon-and-egg pie but is closer to a quiche, in my opinion, and do a lot of Physics questions in my free period - which puts me an exercise ahead of what's due in. Also, Physics questions can be quite fun.

Friday evening, I go down to the dojo for what's called the 'Teen Open Class.' It turns out that it's actually the 'Teen GO REALLY HARD AND GET EXHAUSETED Class.' After it's over I find that I'm mostly unable to stand. Looking forward to it next week.

So yeah. Good few days.