Logan’s Run Online

So last Sunday I fenced back home again for the first time in a while at South Florida’s Sabre Outreach Network’s December “Vidosa Memorial Cup” Fencing Tournament. You know, the SFSONDVMCFT.

I don’t want to not be humble, but just from the way I fenced I can definitely tell I’ve improved my game since I’ve left high school fencing. I’m now a lot faster in both movements and reaction, plus I know more advanced moves and how to really “play the game”–especially when dueling electric. My favorite highlight of the day? I beat this fencer I’ve never fenced before in my life 5-2! He’s a C-rated fencer (classifications range from E to A, with A being the highest and U being unranked) and I’ve not even gotten a rating yet. YEAH! I was SO happy when that bout ended; I couldn’t believe it.

Regarding the rest of my performance, I was really just ok–I didn’t even place in individuals because I lost my first DE (to a fencer who has also improved much since I’ve left) and my team didn’t even make it past pools during the team events. Oh well. I still had a TON of fun and basically got to fence for 8 hours straight, leaving me very, very happy.

I get to fence again this afternoon at my old high school’s final fencing practice of their trimester–after this, though, I can’t fence again until I’m back up at UCF and my normal fencing schedule resumes. Unless I can find another fencing club here in Boca…

Yup–I’m happy to report that as of last Friday, my first semester of college has been over and finished! Hooray for completing (and surviving) the first few months of what will undoubtedly be a fun and exciting ride for the next however many years. I felt good about most of my finals, and the great news is that I got my final grades for almost all of my classes and I finished the semester off pretty well. Hooray again!

You can congratulate me via comments if you want to.

With the exception of the rough start yesterday to my first week of college finals, the two exams I’ve taken so far both seemed to go rather well to me. Calc moreso than speech, but, honestly, speech is mainly the grades I’ve already gotten on my actual presentations, so even if I don’t do so well on the final test itself my other stellar grades will balance it all out. Now I’ve got two tests left: physics tomorrow and C programming Friday, which is really going to be a joke of a test. Stupidest thing is that it’s at 7am–yes, seven o’clock in the morning. Bah. Oh well. At least that night I’ll be going to see a funny play with Lauren. And then I go back home Saturday in preparation for my fencing tournament Sunday! Can’t wait!

Watching: Scrubs, season 3, “My Journey”

So, I’m writing this blog post at about…6:06 in the morning the DAY OF FINALS. Why am I awake? Not because I was pulling an all-nighter studying, but because someone pulled the FIRE ALARM at this time. Yes, the FIRE ALARM. So the entire building has to shuffle out in the freezing weather–many of us in pajamas–at this time in the morning, forced to wake from our pre-finals reverie and become insanely stressed out. Now I have to get back to sleep–not a problem, I can do that easily enough–but I’ve just lost a good 30 minutes, I’m cold, I just stood outside with nothing but a phone, my wallet, and a baseball cap for half an hour, and I’m annoyed.

Gah.