Ok, ok, I guess it's time I posted a real, honest to goodness update...not a quiz or test results or something...

I'm up to my eyeballs in math. I hate Albegra. WHO CARES what 4N(3-4.86)-P is equal to? I'll (supposedly) be graduating on the 29th of next month. That's not nearlly enough time to finish my math...or actually it is...if I can just make myself do it. It's just really hard to do 3 lessons a day when you have to wait for Dad to come home to help you with half of it. Man, do I miss BonnieJean!

Speaking of which, I got to talk to her yesterday. That was real fun. She is considering staying over there for fully a year longer than she had first planned (for a grand total of 1 and a half years!) Needless to say I'm about to go nuts at the thought, but I guess as on long as she's in God's will she'll be fine.

Tomorrow is the ABKA National Karate Tournament. I haven't been this nervous since piano recitals when I was a kid. Normally performing doesn't bother me: in fact I love being in front of a croud. But this isn't going to be fooling a bunch of non-jugglers into thinking I'm cool: I'll be performing for black belts: there will be no fooling them. Monday night I worked on my kata a lot with one of the black belts after class. He seemed pretty pleased with it, but I'm still very nervous. It'd be cool if I did well in fighting (hey, it'd be cool if I won!) but what I'm really, really, REALLY wanting is to take first in kata.

Anna is going to do really well in kata. In fact I would not be at all surprised if she won. Her stances are looking really good and her transitions are awesome. Sometimes she has trouble putting power into her punches, but I'm really excited about how she'll do.

And on the other end of the scale, we have Ethan. Ethan will probably do very poorly in kata. Anna and I have both started working on our compitition kata 4 months ago. Ethan started only about 4 weeks ago. He simply doesn't know the kata well enough, nor has he had the time work over all the little details with a black belt. And to top it off with, he won't listen to Anna or I. Some of the simplist things, like chambering high for a kick, he tries to argue with us about. "It's high enough: my kick is getting up there!" Well, so? They're stilling going to see a low chamber and they won't like it! You've been learning that since you were a white belt! ARGG!!!

Joshua will probably do ok. I was watching his kata earlier today and while not great, it's not horrible either. I've been trying to get him to keep his hands tight lately: he's trying to punch or backfist with a totally loose hand and it looks really bad. I'm afraid he won't do very well in fighting: he fought a guy about his size and level on Monday and was beaten really bad. Oh well. I'm sure he'll have a good time. Joshua is a really good sport, which I gues is more important.

And now I need to get off. Good bye, and farewell, my adoring fans!