It's the last Thursday (epee) night of the month and the format for this session was a 15-touche round robin to simulate tournament conditions. I gave my best effort in spite of feeling not well health-wise. (I'm still fighting a little bronchitis and a couple of other annoying things.) I fenced someone new today. This was good. Very tournament-esque to step on piste and have to figure someone out from scratch. He looked good but I played my game - control of distance, tightness ...
So, I just got off of the phone with CoSport, who is listed on the US Olympic Committee as the "official U.S. Public Ticket Sales Agent" and wanted to talk with someone in their marketing department since their site (www.cosport.com) and their parent web site (www.jetsetsports.com) did not come up anywhere in the search engines when I went looking for information on rates and other information for Beijing Olympic travel packages. The woman who answered the phone very politely ...
Fenced in Mannheim the last three Wednesdays. First Wednesday, AL and I--Wednesday after the tournament in Nuernburg. I was pissed and very focused on ending actions correctly. I ganked AL mercilessly--we weren't counting, but I was outscoring him about 3-1 or 4-1. He was so frustrated at the end that he fled the hall without a lesson at about 2015 (we normally stay until 2130 or so). Lesson with Alex. normal elements. Second Wednesday, ATK and I. We drilled, and I ...
I finished the chapter I was working on, and the change in my mindset is palpable. For the past month I've been slipping further and further into an utterly atypical kind of personal insanity - leaving the milk out for three days, leaving the ice cream out, locking myself out of my apartment, leaving the phone in the fridge (repeatedly, sigh), washing my hair three times in a single shower because I forget that I've already washed it, etc. My apartment slowly accumulated piles of books, paper, ...
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