batskeets | Wushu and Laziness

ATTN People Who Always Ask When My Next Wushu Demo Is Happening: THIS SATURDAY, June 12th, at Cinetopia in Vancouver! We'll be doing a demo at 3:45pm on this day, as a lead-in for the new Karate Kid movie.

Speaking of wushu, I am learning new 9-section chain whip moves, which is equal parts frustrating and fun. The ground work often makes me want to cry like a girl, and I may never achieve proper butt-hops, but I'm figuring it out. The new leg swing-y move, however, has likely left a lovely smattering of bruises on my back. Wushu means never having to run out of ways to cause yourself pain! :D

I feel like I had a really lazy weekend and have no business being this tired and sore, but upon further reflection, I actually did quite a few things.

80's dancing on Friday night was fantastic, and I'm glad I went! They had the music videos for each song projected on huge video screens, and good LORD, they were hilarious and awesome. I was a bit surprised that they started playing the last song at 1:15, because I completely expected that they'd be spinning tunes until after the bars closed. But, at that point, I'd been shakin' my thing for 3 1/2 hours and my knees were NOT happy with me, so this was probably a blessing in disguise. We also hit up Montage afterwards, where I opted to try out the alligator jambalaya, and it was pretty tasty.

I inexplicably woke up at 9am on Saturday morning (god, WTF, body?!), so I did some yoga, finally cleaned up my room, processed photos, and then played Dragon Age for about half an hour, until I realized I was too tired to play video games. So, since most of the group had bailed on the Ground Kontrol plan anyway, I took a nap and watched the season finale of Fringe, and then got up and went to the show I'd planned on attending. The show was pretty fun, but I was definitely dragging towards the end of it.

I helped

twilite_embrace move her big furniture on Sunday, and then went over to watch The Big Lebowski with the rest of the Two Gents cast, for fun and research purposes. I swear, that movie gets funnier every time I watch it, and I'm so excited to do the first reading this coming Sunday! A lot of us kicked around and played some Rock Band for a bit after the movie ended, and and then I went home and lazed around watching Doctor Who.

I have no idea what I did to make myself so sore, but my delts are killing me today. Waaaugh. Oh well, it'll pass. And tonight = SCIENCE PUB. And sleeping.