Rep thanks.

User name a Debussy reference?

Glad to hear lessons, or just the one, are going well. I may or may not be paying the late fee for the Rem; I'm not sure what happened to my pre-reg, but my check is on the way. Thanks for all the support and well wishing over NAC weekend. I'll look for you on Sunday, where I assume you will be kicking names and so forth. :-)

Epee practice has been virtually non-existant, no epee in Rockford. Last night I did primarily foil, since I will be competing in Div II & III at the NAC and really needed some foil time.

Only Div II epee at the NAC, so I guess last weeks practice will have to do. Either weapon, my point control could be better. I'm just missing way too much. I probably will need all the luck I can get. Who knows? Maybe will focus will sharpen when it comes time to fence.

Looks like you had a tough pool in WE - two opponents that finished in the top 8 and another that was a B with a bit of experience. I noticed the DEs were close. Glad you had fun. I still expect you to be quite a handful before long.

Thanks for the reminder about pre-reg on the Remenyik; that had slipped my mind.

For the Burton, I still think you can do well. It was looking like top 12 would get you a rating, so that's what I am cheering you on to do. Not trying to put any pressure on you or anything, just wishing you the best. Be tough, have fun. I look forward to seeing the results.

I really hate to spend our limited club time doing a lot of conditioning, especially with the number of people who are more recreational than competitive.

I did notice that your one of your posts after practice made it into the Out of Context thread. ;-)

I see that there are more entries for WE at the Burton and more of them with higher ratings. Top 8 will be tougher, so I will cheer for you, in absentia, to make top 12 or at least finish higher than the other Hannah listed. Best of luck!

No epee today for me, only foil. Looks like there may be a few weeks in Dec where there will be Saturday epee. Do you come home for Thanksgiving? Obviously no fencing here that Thursday, but business as usual on Saturday.

Anyways, hope the start of school goes well for you and that you like your new roomie.

I think it's interesting that 1/3 of the famous Hannahs listed are athletes and most of the rest are artistic types. Seems you fit right in.

Famous Hannahs for $100:

HANNAH STORM, television news personality
HANNAH VAN BUREN, U.S. First Lady in the 19th Century
HANNAH ARENDT, 20th century writer
HANNAH BAT-SHAHAR, writer
HANNAH DAVIS, 2008 Olympic athlete - Australia - Canoe/Kayak Flatwater
HANNAH FOX, pioneer in female boxing
HANNAH HOCH, German artist
HANNAH LYNCH, writer
HANNAH MILEY, 2008 Olympic athlete - Great Britain - Swimming
HANNAH PAULI, pre-20th century artist
HANNAH SMITH, published author
HANNAH SPEARRITT, musician
HANNAH STOCKBAUER, athlete
HANNAH WAKEFIELD, writer
HANNAH WEINER, Poet
HANNAH WHELAN, 2008 Olympic athlete - Great Britain - Gymnastics Artistic
HANNAH WILKE, contemporary American photographer
HANNAH JANE ARNETT WILSON, 2008 Olympic athlete - Hong Kg, China - Swimming

I excluded famous people with the last name Hannah and the internet is obviously polluted with a lot of Hannah Montana.

What else was I supposed to look up today?

fencing bug bites you pretty hard, huh. Wait until you get to Remenyik... and you really need to check out the National (much bigger); You will get hooked for life.