here to live in glory (a no brainer, and, perhaps, a meme)

[bantha_fodder]

i mean, sure, i could start working on three days worth of galacticanews that i haven't furnished fandom with.

OR, i could go to archery, and actually enjoy myself.



ten things about archery:

1. i shoot left handed.
2. do you know how hard it is to get left handed gear? really hard. REALLY HARD.
3. my arm guard is fluro orange, with blue hook bits (my brother in law's is blue with orange hook bits. this is not a coincidence)
4. i prefer indoor target to any other shoot
5. i wish i competed more often
6. but i'm lazy, so i don't
7. i don't enjoy clout
8. to improve my archery, i do pilates once a week
9. i shoot recurve. i have absolutely no desire to shoot compound or longbow. and no one shoots crossbow. except weirdoes.
10. it really pisses me off that archery isn't a sport at the commonwealth games

in my comments, i want you to tell me ten things (or nine, or whatever), about your favourite thing that you do.

Comments

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I haven't danced properly for a year or so, but...

1. Ballet was always irritating except for those rare few moments when it was sublime
2. I was never as flexible as everyone else
3. I used to despise hip-hop music until I learnt how to feel the beats and use them
4. Everything feels bigger on stage
5. I loved my shoes; the ribbons on the ballet slippers that made me feel like a Proper Dancer, the way the tan leather of my jazz shoes hugged my feet when I pulled the laces, the NOISE you can get from tap shoes, the flexiblity in the sole of my street funk boots, the neat click of character shoe heels
6. Spotting very fast turns gives me a headache
7. I quit jazz before everything else because the expectations were getting too high; dance was never a priority, and at that level they expected it to be
8. My technique wasn't as perfect as the other advanced girls, but I was very very good at picking moves up quickly
9. The situps they made us do made my back hurt for days
10. I still dance when I hear music, because after ten years I can't not

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

Uhm. I really like dancing movies. But I have never been a dancer. I did ballet for six months until I moved back to NSW, and picked up music instead.

I love actually dancing though. Like, those crazy things with a partner, like the tango and the waltz.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I have a not-so-secret desire to learn ballroom and salsa. Possibly I have watched too many dancing movies. I blame Baz Luhrmann.

ten things about book reading

[crushw-eyeliner.livejournal.com]

1. I read more books during the ages of 13 to 15 than I did when I was in university - read and *finished*.
2. This was mostly due to textbooks not being the most fascinating of reading.
3. However, as I studied English, the literature I had to read - very few classics stayed with me, and the stuff I read repeatedly (Austen, Dickens, Twain, Wolfe) were books I read when I was 14.
4. I have never read Tolstoy.
5. Or Dostoevsky. I have read Gogol though.
6. Ethan Frome is a novel I never read all the way through, but I read the beginning, the end, and cheated the middle with cliffs notes. Despite this fragmented view of the work as a whole, I unreservedly hate it and it is my least favorite piece of fiction.
7. I stayed up for two days reading Stephen King's "It." The only other book I bothered to do that for was JK Rowling's "Goblet of Fire."
8. I do pick books by their cover. Often if they have nice font, that'll get me to look up the first two pages or so.
9. I can and have read an average size novel (300 pages?) in a day. I finished Order of the Phoenix in 8 hours.
10. I like Young Adult fiction better than any other genre of fiction. Today.

Re: ten things about book reading

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

I love YA. My favourite book in the whole world (Sabriel by Garth Nix) is YA, and I've honestly not read a book I've loved more since I first read it ten years ago.

I OotP without sleeping. I had an exam on the day the book was released, so I picked up the book, went to my exam, read it whilst my friend did that pre-exam cram, sat the exam, went home and read until I was done. But I've yet to even finish HBP.

[sangga.livejournal.com]

it really pisses me off that archery isn't a sport at the commonwealth games

it isn't? how weird.

i have 2 favourite things, so - five things each.

YOGA
1. when the breathing and the asana sequence is right (vinyasa), it's perfect.
2. you can plateau, and then have a breakthrough.
3. i get really cut abs.
4. which is totally immaterial, cos it's not about that but still.
5. it's pretty much the perfect exercise for my body (when i'm not pregnant - otherwise i get too flexy and lose strength in my pelvic girdle and get sciatica and - bother. wish i could do it now).

MARTIAL ARTS
1. i can do four different styles
2. no one trains my favourite style, silat, so blah, but beloved does, so yay.
3. it's fun to kick ass.
4. i like punching and kicking things.
5. competitive martial arts is all about points and is for whussies. so there.

so there.

hi bantha.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

I work for, let us call it an elite fitness and sporting facility. We hold pre-natal yoga. This is clearly useless to you, living across the country as you do, but it does make me wonder why you can't do yoga whilst you're pregnant. Is that you specifically who loses strength in your pelvic girdle? Or is it apparently something that happens and that's why you've not done it?

Competitive martial arts is weird. I have heaps of friends who do it.

Archery is not a sport at the Commonwealth Games this year, but will be at the next one. FAT LOT OF GOOD THAT DOES ME. It would have been AWESOME if C got to go there this year, and I could use it as an excuse to go to Melbourne.

Hey Sangga. How's the incubation going?

[intheshade.livejournal.com]

Art

1. Whatever medium I use becomes an extension of myself.
2. No one ever told me or taught me how to use different materials, or what results are to be expected from them. So I do things one isn't meant to be able to.
3. It can consume me completely- time, everything unrelated ceases to exist.
4. Praise always surprises me.
5. It's the only thing in the world that always makes sense to me.
6. In creating I am connected to everything else.
7. It endows me with a physical grace I am otherwise without.
8. My soul and mind can be soothed, sated, and quieted by a piece of chalk and a scrap of newspaper.
9. I can bear physical pain, mental and emotional strain, and have faith and patience far beyond what I am capable of int anything else.
10. It gives me an identity and a purpose.