Cafe Vulgar

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One of the trickers broke his nose at training today. He went for a round-off, failed and his knee ended up where his face was. Crunch.

That, ladies and gents, is why I won't be delving into tricking for a little while longer.

5 sessions in and I've gone from being terrified of vaulting not being able to vault to successfully pulling kongs over about 4.5' obstacles. Considering I'm only 5'2" myself, I'm pretty proud of that for progress, and I'll definitely be joining the guys for outdoors training when the weather stops being shit.

Last week I played with wall runs a little. I've never tried running up a wall before. No idea of the technique or anything, but I was able to reach about 8ft up the practise wall we have set up in the gym. God, it's been a while since I've been this gushingly excited over anything, but I am so psyched about parkour you have no idea. And I was the lazy, unfit, unathletic girl in school who was always one of the last picked for anything. What happen :I

I leave you with the best definition of parkour I have found on the webternets.

Parkour: "A style of movement developed in France to insure that they could flee in any direction, at any time."

Oh my god my lightbulbs keep exploding and it's terrifying halp
;-;
Especially when I'm reading creepypasta at 2am seriously

Possibly in relation to freerunning/karate but not the result of an injury I remember, my foot has been ridiuclously painful for about a week now. It's fine when I'm sitting, resting or even standing with weight on it, but the more I walk the worse the pain gets until it's overpowering. I'm off to doctor's later today to get it sussed.

Also I ache after yesterday's vaulting sesh. My thigh muscles are crying at me and my elbow is just like YOU HAVE NEVER MADE ME WORK THIS HARD WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

LIFE IS GOOD

gillo gave me the letter B. What a hard letter.
OR SO I THOUGHT BEFORE I REALISED I COULD JUST ADD "BRO" TO THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, PART 3

Bros: I got lots of bros and seeing them always makes me smile. I don't get to see them nearly as much as I should, but hopefully this shall soon be rectified.

Brobots:

ROBOTS EVERYWHERE AND ALL OF THEM ARE BROS oh my god Rung what are you doing go home you are drunk

Bromance: The display of which has convinced pretty much everyone we know that gs_disaronno and I are actually in a lesbian relationship.

Brorunning: by which I mean freerunning. I've recently started attending freerunning/tricking classes, though if we're being technical I am more into the parkour side of the sport and definitely want to work on my vaults and wall-climbs before I start on flips.

/b: but I don't think that's really a reason to be cheerful.

GOOD GRIEF THIS IS A REALLY HARD LETTER. THANKS gillo.

Any of you awesome types who are heading to Botcon this year finding yourselves possessed of some spare floor space in your hotel room that you wouldn't mind Jonny Foreigner (le me) crashing on? If not, do any of you know someone who is going and has space in their hotel room? Will pay toward room fee for duration of stay. Have passport, will travel :3 let me know here or in a PM. Comments are screened to protect the innocent.

APPRECIATED MANY TIMES.

Wow, look at that. I finally (four years later) got around to half-assedly changing my journal layout so it is no longer black on black and I don't have to highlight posts to read them any more.

Yeah stuff is happening. I have a million deadlines because deadlines are cool except not when you have to rely on other people to make them. Doc's is taking over six weeks to get urgent records to me which means I may actually miss an application deadline because of it, which sucks.

Dissertation results come on December 12th. I am becoming nervous.

Yes guys I am still alive.

My life has been a string of deadlines for the last few months. Now that I am deadline-less, I am compensating by creating imaginary deadlines.

There is a list of things I want to get done. Will probably post a progress or something when I am sure I am going to actually do it all.

At the moment, work is kicking my ass. Halfway through 8 straight days in a row and I am getting pretty sick of customers tbh :O

It's my birthday today and I'm still ill. Had a bad viral chest infection for the week since Auto Assembly, and if that wasn't enough, my friend accidentally elbowed me in the throat at AA and bruised my windpipe so stuff like breathing and swallowing has been a pain anyway.

BUT.

It's time for a MOTHERFUCKING RECAP POST.

WITH PICTURES.



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