Handful of postings
Felt extra productive at work today, prepped a pile of limited edition art prints to ship out to Minicon, answered a bunch of emails, forwarded several hanging projects and still made it to aikido class afterward!
Note mostly to self: aikido class today went over the shomenuchi and yokomenuchi strikes, and striking with a kiai (the sound they prefer is "yi"). The techniques we practiced were shomenuchi ikkyo (abbreviated) tenkon and yokomenuchi kokyunage. My rolls still strongly resemble tossing a sack of potatoes, but it fells like a more comfortably familiar sense of cluelessness than before. I found myself moving far too automatically in kokyunage - I didn't even notice that I did the right hand side differently than the left hand side until the yudansha I was practicing with pointed it out - and then demonstrated - and then I *still* had trouble keeping to the technique we were trying for. Good thing it's not a race.
On the way home I watched the lunar eclipse for about 20 minutes. The sky was medium clear, quite different from the heavy cloud cover expected.
Here's a Hugo question - I want to nominate Girl Genius Volume 6, which I think is one of the best so far. Do I correctly interpret that I should find out how many words are used in the graphic novel, and that would point me to which of the four fiction categories it should be in?
Note mostly to self: aikido class today went over the shomenuchi and yokomenuchi strikes, and striking with a kiai (the sound they prefer is "yi"). The techniques we practiced were shomenuchi ikkyo (abbreviated) tenkon and yokomenuchi kokyunage. My rolls still strongly resemble tossing a sack of potatoes, but it fells like a more comfortably familiar sense of cluelessness than before. I found myself moving far too automatically in kokyunage - I didn't even notice that I did the right hand side differently than the left hand side until the yudansha I was practicing with pointed it out - and then demonstrated - and then I *still* had trouble keeping to the technique we were trying for. Good thing it's not a race.
On the way home I watched the lunar eclipse for about 20 minutes. The sky was medium clear, quite different from the heavy cloud cover expected.
Here's a Hugo question - I want to nominate Girl Genius Volume 6, which I think is one of the best so far. Do I correctly interpret that I should find out how many words are used in the graphic novel, and that would point me to which of the four fiction categories it should be in?