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Archive for April, 2008

Orange Skies Tea Tin

Posted in Crafts, tagged , on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

After spring comes summer! This tin turned out very bright and happy. I really love finding lace paper overlays that work properly with background papers. They can’t be too close in color, or it won’t stand out, but it can’t clash either, obviously. This one made a nice transition between the darker orange background and [...]

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New Kata Mysteries Explained

Posted in Karate, tagged , , on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I mentioned last week that my sensei has started teaching me a new kata from a different style, but that it was very hard for me to find any information about it, due to some linguistic barriers. Fortunately, last night he started teaching me a second kata from the same style, with a much less [...]

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Temari Class: Kiku Sampler

Posted in Crafts, tagged , , on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Goodness, I’ve gotten behind on my temari blogging. I just went to the last class Barb is having in preparation for EGA this weekend, and I realized I never got around to blogging about the class before that. That class was the second half of the intermediate session; we learned Maritime Stars in the first [...]

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Look over there!

Posted in Life, Writing, tagged , on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I seem to be writing a bunch over at Geek Buffet this week. Take a trip over there to read about:

the continuing saga of my very weird high school history teacher vs. my high school
my somewhat flippant thoughts on the symbolism of the Olympic torch
and my further thoughts on the protest/counter-protest that took place at [...]

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Success from Failure, or something like that

Posted in Karate, tagged , , , on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The past week and a bit at karate has been interesting. It started two Fridays ago, when I was strangely the only student in class. (Maybe it was spring break? Or people were just lazy? Who knows.) After I warmed up, sensei had me start working intensively on Empi, my latest kata. I had to [...]

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Cherry Blossoms, 2008

Posted in Life, Pictures, tagged on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Even though our tea ceremony programs kindly provided us with a map of all the different cherry trees in the university gardens, we didn’t actually take the opportunity to go look at them, given the drizzly and somewhat startlingly cold weather. Fortunately, though, I had gotten to see some of them earlier in the week, [...]

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