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allekhaWell, I survived the other wedding. Only because I was wearing both earplugs and noise-cancelling headphones for most of it, and I had to skip most of the main course we were served because there was no vegetarian option, and we had to last-minute buy Z a new suit jacket at Goodwill because he forgot his, but still! The desserts were delicious, the couple seemed very happy, and I was even able to dance with Z before the noise got to be too much for me after a few hours.
I haven't been able to go skating as much as I would like, because there just isn't much ice time - a second rink just opened a couple weeks ago with limited hours, but for a month or so, we only had freestyle time at one rink, no public. R found the freestyle to be very anxiety-inducing for practicing on his own, and it didn't help that it turns out we have our own local Bad Russian Coach. He got onto the ice in his shoes the middle of a session to scream at R and our coach in Russian because he thought they were getting in the way of one of his students. (I think he was just frustrated because she kept falling or popping her 3S. Didn't see her land it once during the whole session. Teach her how to do the jump instead of taking it out on people, dude.) Another coach later unloaded a bunch of history on him to us and he is, um, not a very good person and probably shouldn't be coaching. And probably would've been reported to SafeSport if it had existed twenty years ago.
...anyway! We might both be ready to take our first test and we've been working hard on our Dutch Waltz. Last session, we did it to music. It turns out that I have a very hard time telling apart the beats, though I can clap to part of the rhythm, and I don't know if R is much better. How do you tell if one part is the 1-2-3 or the 4-5-6? I have no idea. Something to learn.
Been doing work, but probably not enough work, blegh. I'm meeting with my advisor on Friday, so I'm trying to get stuff done before that. I did get a bit sidetracked when I went to look up a couple papers about one thing and tripped headfirst into a big academic argument about whether the thing even exists. At least it can help fill out my background section. And next week, I'm going to be doing a lecture for his summer class, so I need to finish putting that together. It's something I love talking about, though, so I think it will be fun.
Z and I found some time to hang out this week, and we finished watching Angel Beats. I'd always heard that it was such a great show!!! You'll cry buckets of tears!!! Prepare to hop on the feels train!!! ...I thought it was terrible. Animation was okay for the era, a few characters with potential, music is nice (you might have to not pay too much attention to the lyrics), but awful, awful writing. A lot of the show, from sections of the plot to character motivations and changes of mind, made absolutely no sense to me, and most of the halfway interesting characters were wasted. I'm not saying I haven't liked dumb things, but I thought it was really bad. Oh, well.
Rare Ships!!! on Ice was a lot of fun again this year. I'm kind of sad that the fandom has apparently died down so much (though it's still more active than many of the fandoms I've been in) and this might be the last round unless the movie sufficiently revitalizes it, but I'm glad that we had this round as I really enjoyed some of the fic.
I haven't been able to go skating as much as I would like, because there just isn't much ice time - a second rink just opened a couple weeks ago with limited hours, but for a month or so, we only had freestyle time at one rink, no public. R found the freestyle to be very anxiety-inducing for practicing on his own, and it didn't help that it turns out we have our own local Bad Russian Coach. He got onto the ice in his shoes the middle of a session to scream at R and our coach in Russian because he thought they were getting in the way of one of his students. (I think he was just frustrated because she kept falling or popping her 3S. Didn't see her land it once during the whole session. Teach her how to do the jump instead of taking it out on people, dude.) Another coach later unloaded a bunch of history on him to us and he is, um, not a very good person and probably shouldn't be coaching. And probably would've been reported to SafeSport if it had existed twenty years ago.
...anyway! We might both be ready to take our first test and we've been working hard on our Dutch Waltz. Last session, we did it to music. It turns out that I have a very hard time telling apart the beats, though I can clap to part of the rhythm, and I don't know if R is much better. How do you tell if one part is the 1-2-3 or the 4-5-6? I have no idea. Something to learn.
Been doing work, but probably not enough work, blegh. I'm meeting with my advisor on Friday, so I'm trying to get stuff done before that. I did get a bit sidetracked when I went to look up a couple papers about one thing and tripped headfirst into a big academic argument about whether the thing even exists. At least it can help fill out my background section. And next week, I'm going to be doing a lecture for his summer class, so I need to finish putting that together. It's something I love talking about, though, so I think it will be fun.
Z and I found some time to hang out this week, and we finished watching Angel Beats. I'd always heard that it was such a great show!!! You'll cry buckets of tears!!! Prepare to hop on the feels train!!! ...I thought it was terrible. Animation was okay for the era, a few characters with potential, music is nice (you might have to not pay too much attention to the lyrics), but awful, awful writing. A lot of the show, from sections of the plot to character motivations and changes of mind, made absolutely no sense to me, and most of the halfway interesting characters were wasted. I'm not saying I haven't liked dumb things, but I thought it was really bad. Oh, well.
Rare Ships!!! on Ice was a lot of fun again this year. I'm kind of sad that the fandom has apparently died down so much (though it's still more active than many of the fandoms I've been in) and this might be the last round unless the movie sufficiently revitalizes it, but I'm glad that we had this round as I really enjoyed some of the fic.
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Date: 2019-07-31 10:12 am (UTC)I watched Angel Beats several years ago and kind of wondered the same thoughts as you. Show was not nearly as deep as people tried to say it was.
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Date: 2019-08-01 12:41 am (UTC)