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The coolest thing about yesterday was discovering that my dad's old army jacket fits me again. Yay! It's from before Vietnam, so it's got all these colourful patches on it, not to mention my last name right over my right chest in black on white - for better sniper aiming purposes.

Rest of day was spent watching One Piece, reading One Piece fic, reading manga, and picking up my mum from the airport. My car, of course, still isn't finished, but has been promised to me today. This would be more helpful if I wasn't going into NYC, and would be able to pick it up.

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The coolest thing about yesterday was discovering that my dad's old army jacket fits me again. Yay! It's from before Vietnam, so it's got all these colourful patches on it, not to mention my last name right over my right chest in black on white - for better sniper aiming purposes.

Rest of day was spent watching One Piece, reading One Piece fic, reading manga, and picking up my mum from the airport. My car, of course, still isn't finished, but has been promised to me today. This would be more helpful if I wasn't going into NYC, and would be able to pick it up.

NYC & Bujinkan

Well, I'm exhausted. I went into the city today. I nearly missed the train and since I jumped on without enough money to pay for hte ticket, I was very lucky that a complete stranger gave me four dollars (a favour I will have to return to some random stranger of my own someday), and that the conductors let me pay the reduced fare (suspect being a woman helped that one a little...). cedarlibrarian will appreciate that it started raining just as I got there... Met up with my former flatmate's boyfriend and got my dad's credit card, visited Book Off, Dylan's Candy Shop and Serendipity 3. I picked up a Folder Five cd at Book Off, and a Kenshin doujinshi - it being the funniest thing I've seen in a long time, despite the rather explicity yaoi at the beginning o_o;; I couldn't resist Kenshin in drag and an Aoshi paper doll complete with magical girl costume... *eg* Not to mention some hilarious shorts and nice longer stories like one with young kenshin and hiko.

Lunch was a New york pretzel and a frozen hot chocolate. Oh, and Dylan's was handing out free chocolate covered strawberries that you dipped in a chocolate fountain! Me <3's the Wonka promotion, oh yes me does.

After getting home and discovering my car still wasn't done (argh!... this is getting ridiculous and today was the last bloody day I could do without it...) I headed off to Bujinkan, where I was very happy that we did knives the entire time. I may like playing with swords, but knives are easily my best weapon. It's only when I train with a newer person that I realize how much I've learnt over the past years. This guy was kinda intimidated by me, and I spent a lot of time trying to get him to move with the space (well, that and severing tendons... have noticed not a single class goes by without someone either warning my partners that I'm tricky/vicious, or warning me not to kill someone... heh.)

Also had our fighting techniques compared to getting a woman's phone number (my phone number specifically... it's rather disconcerting to have your sensei ask you for your sign in the middle of class...). Sensei also did the coolest move I've ever seen, which I cannot for the life of me duplicate, nor can I explain since it's something you don't teach outside the dojo. Suffice it to say, it was something you expect to see on an anime, not in real life. Must find some way to train and practice it... I love that we did a little bit of defending other people in the end. Defending another person is nothing like defending yourself, but very similar at the same time. *rereads that* Er, yeah, may have been listening to my sensei too long today...

NYC & Bujinkan

Well, I'm exhausted. I went into the city today. I nearly missed the train and since I jumped on without enough money to pay for hte ticket, I was very lucky that a complete stranger gave me four dollars (a favour I will have to return to some random stranger of my own someday), and that the conductors let me pay the reduced fare (suspect being a woman helped that one a little...). cedarlibrarian will appreciate that it started raining just as I got there... Met up with my former flatmate's boyfriend and got my dad's credit card, visited Book Off, Dylan's Candy Shop and Serendipity 3. I picked up a Folder Five cd at Book Off, and a Kenshin doujinshi - it being the funniest thing I've seen in a long time, despite the rather explicity yaoi at the beginning o_o;; I couldn't resist Kenshin in drag and an Aoshi paper doll complete with magical girl costume... *eg* Not to mention some hilarious shorts and nice longer stories like one with young kenshin and hiko.

Lunch was a New york pretzel and a frozen hot chocolate. Oh, and Dylan's was handing out free chocolate covered strawberries that you dipped in a chocolate fountain! Me <3's the Wonka promotion, oh yes me does.

After getting home and discovering my car still wasn't done (argh!... this is getting ridiculous and today was the last bloody day I could do without it...) I headed off to Bujinkan, where I was very happy that we did knives the entire time. I may like playing with swords, but knives are easily my best weapon. It's only when I train with a newer person that I realize how much I've learnt over the past years. This guy was kinda intimidated by me, and I spent a lot of time trying to get him to move with the space (well, that and severing tendons... have noticed not a single class goes by without someone either warning my partners that I'm tricky/vicious, or warning me not to kill someone... heh.)

Also had our fighting techniques compared to getting a woman's phone number (my phone number specifically... it's rather disconcerting to have your sensei ask you for your sign in the middle of class...). Sensei also did the coolest move I've ever seen, which I cannot for the life of me duplicate, nor can I explain since it's something you don't teach outside the dojo. Suffice it to say, it was something you expect to see on an anime, not in real life. Must find some way to train and practice it... I love that we did a little bit of defending other people in the end. Defending another person is nothing like defending yourself, but very similar at the same time. *rereads that* Er, yeah, may have been listening to my sensei too long today...