Water...Music!

Currently in Earphones: "Drowsy Maggie" performed by The Chieftains, "Love Pledge / The Arena" by John Williams, from Star Wars Episode II.

Might as well update, I guess.

Memorial Day Weekend is coming, lock away your daughters!

In Fencing news, Epee is sure is fun. I got a chance to spar with Patrick and learn some valuable tips while getting my ass kicked. I got some good hits in, and it felt so good to know that if someone came charging in at me, all I need to do is use my reach and stab out. As Patrick said, an Epeeists best defense is his point. He fleched against me twice and both times I just counter-attacked and hit him first, much to my delight.

Matt had his way with me, so to speak, afterward. He had me work on disengaging an opponents take of my blade. Consequently, there was a lot of blades spinning about. I had to do single and double disengages from each line, and also change-of-line disengages (where ol' Rock swept his blade down to a low line then back up to a high line in both 7 and 8). I got really worn out but Rock kept on pushing me, which was double edged. On one hand, I don't think I'd ever been so physically worn out, arm wise at least, as then. I seem to remember thinking, "So this is what it's like to be pushed really hard," while after every mistake I had to take a second to catch my breath. On the other hand, I was glad I was being pushed, which I'm sure is increasing my stamina.

Went for a swim this afternoon with Toes, Preston and Sascha. I'd forgotten how much fun it was to swim! I was really surprised at the 12 foot deep end where the diving boards were: I've become so used to 8-9 foot depths that it seemed boggling to have a deep spot twice as tall as I. Though I didn't partake in any of the diving that went on off the boards (Toes was quite majestic with his spins and pike-positions), splashing about sure was a blast. I left early for the Baroque performance around 5:15ish.

Not too much to say about the performance, other than I rushed over the rehearsal at 6 and everything else went off without too much of a hitch. We accompanied Theresa Tam in her performance of a Bach Cantata and played the Brandenburg 4. I said a hopefully not final goodbye to the Cellist Anya, who I've become good friends with over the past few weeks. She said she'll probably be coming back for Fall Quarter Baroque Ensemble, Score!

Well, it is now 12:30am, Saturday morning. I am now going to bed. That is all.

Enough. More Later.
- James