myOtaku.com: Ben

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Vitals

Birthday
• 1988-09-25
Gender
• Male
Location
• Groton, CT
Member Since
• 2003-07-31
Occupation
• Student, Lackey of Doom
Real Name
• Ben

Personal

Achievements
• Wrote a 157 page book and am working on a sequel that is 50+ pages long at the moment.
Anime Fan Since
• Eh...fifth grade, I think.
Favorite Anime
• Digimon Forever! Followed further back by Yu-Gi-Oh.
Goals
• Get my darn book ~~published...~~ REWRITTEN
Hobbies
• Writing, reading, IM'ing
Talents
• Writing and I have a knack for gaming.

myOtaku.com: Ben

Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Just a quick little update
I had a great fencing practice tonight. The warm-ups and drills were not the usual repetition of useless crap, as I had (for some reason or another) a positive outlook on them. I mean, they were the same things we've been doing most of the season, but...they just weren't as bad, you know?

Physically, too, I didn't feel as tired or in pain after them. It was great. :)

I'm competing in the JV Tournament on Saturday. Hopefully it will turn out better than last year, where I was eliminated in my first round of Direct Eliminations by my own teammate. =/

My coaches are both very optimistic though, and it's starting to rub off on me. I've been fencing well on the Varsity level so far this year, and they've noticed significant improvement in me since last year.

So, yay. Good practice & good mindset are cool. Let's keep it there.

I only really fenced two people tonight. Both of them were J.V., but they were the winners of bouts against other J.V. people. My coach was adamant that I face "the winners", and not "the losers."

I beat Brad, 5-3, although at least one of the touches that was given to him I was unsure about. He hit me on target, but very, very lightly. I don't know whether it would have registered electrically. But, meh, nitpicking. I fenced well. I got him to run into my blade three times. ^_^

Next I fenced Morgan. Morgan's only a Sophomore, and in his second year fencing at St. B's. He started fencing several years before, however, and has had much more and much better experience than me. That bout went extremely well, also, even though I lost 5-3. My touches were well earned, as were his. We were pretty evenly matched, and I had a good time. He was a challenge, and that made it worthwhile. ^_^

Exams are next week, and I've got tons of Study Guides and notecards and the like to fill out and study and whatnot. Never before have I been so "twitchy" about exams. I mean, I'd run through my notes a couple of times, and look over the stuff we'd been told to look over, but I never really wrote out notecards or special exam study things before.

Well, let me say that for the first time I'm worried about my exams. Particularly Honors Pre-Cal. I think this is the year where I'm beginning to favor one sort of subject over the other. My growth in mathematic comprehension is declining, while my interest and skills in English and humanities are becoming more prominent.

Ech.

Sociology and Psychology I know I can do well on, after studying. It's relatively easy stuff, and interesting enough to read time and time again until I remember it. Names are going to mess me up, though. I know it.

History....eh. I know a great many events and concepts and such in History, but I'm terrible at dates and geography. So...ergh. The Study Guide for that ought to be immensely helpful. I hope.

French is usually a guaranteed C+ -> A-. Somewhere in that range. We haven't really done all that much this year, though, so....more indecision. =p

Theology ought to be a walk in the park, all except the information on cults. I sort of...don't have a lot on that.

English...English, English, English.......

200 Objective questions. Little problem with the questions, possible problem with the time consumption. I have an hour and a half to complete all of those questions, and to write a good, solid, constructed essay. And I have no idea what the essay will be on. Yay. *shrug* I'm optimistic, though. I think I'll do well.

This turned out to be a bit longer than I anticipated. Yay for you, you've got a good Ben post.
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