t minus two days

it's been almost a year. if this was a movie, i'd be readying myself for a fight already! instead i'm still looking frustrated in the beginner's sandbox at the beginning of the montage sequence. if this were chess, i'd be playing with a timer and wasting each turn trying to remember how the pieces move instead of strategizing and thinking two moves ahead. in the ring, each time i'm told to use my brain i mentally put my hands up and shut down.

i will get better.

---icing my toe didn't help very much. and my back's been giving me a bit of grief. i read and snacked the night away - snacking continuously is kind of how i read - until late and then woke up to continue where i'd left off. it was a slow-brain day.

facebook etiquette: there's a tel aviv poetry group i'm a part of, and i've been receiving notifications because some jerk has been posting entirely unrelated things. nobody's said anything and facebook tells me how many views each post has had. so i posted a snarky poll:

has this page become a place for posts that aren't related to poetry in israel?
• yes, you should leave it if you're not into random food posts.
• no, but maybe if we ignore it the problem will go away by itself.
• no, can we go back to how things were?

eight people saw the poll, one voted on the second option and nobody's said a word. huh.

horseman arrived early and we spent two hours chatting, some topics funny and some bleak, and my forgetting words i know when i need them is very frustrating. when he left, i detoxed on xkcd volume 0 (where did i get that? a humble bundle?) and then read some more before passing out for a while.

i was drawn out of my siesta reverie by a phone call, then proceeded to prepare for training. i met kgb and we worked flexibility, struggled a bit with kicks and pads, and then it was time for the next class. there were only two of us in advanced kickboxing and i asked the jolly moroccan if we could do sparring drills. both liked the idea, we spent the class working up to full (light) sparring, which culminated in (accidentally) trading kicks and knees to the groin that called an end to the evening. not including those, we've agreed that we could definitely use a lot more practice.

the first episode of freaks and geeks is super awkward and fun. i've been posting and half watching it, which probably wasn't the most efficient of ideas!