Saturday, December 27, 2008

Holidays

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The holidays are a difficult season to get training in, so this is a post not so much about amazing dedication as about squeezing a few drop...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Rising Yang

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Yesterday was the winter solstice, the most yin day of the year. That means today is the day when yang begins to arise again. Our small gr...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Changes

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Finally, after what has seemed like almost three months of stagnation, I feel like I'm moving forward. First, my advisor set a fire und...
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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Changes

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So since admitting to myself a recipe for healing and following it rather determinedly, though not flawlessly, and since implementing even m...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Admitting

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As I've posted several times in the past, my lower back has been something of an issue in my training and life for as long as I've b...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Worldwide Readership and No Time to Post

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I've been meaning and wanting to post for a while, but finishing (please, please let it be true) a Ph.D. sucks sometimes. My teaching (r...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Interesting Reaction

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I was at the university yesterday and ended up in a chance encounter with a Chinese colleague in which the topics of learning Chinese and tr...
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

One and a Quarter Pounds

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Thanks to a friend of mine, who happened to call my proxy saber "cool," I now have a sweet 1.25-pound weight added to it, right be...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Hammers, Hatchets, and Triggers

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For the past two weeks, I've barely been able to train, which sucks. I noted that I was suffering from what started out seeming like a ...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Don't Know Chinese

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I keep getting all excited about the fact that I knew the Holding and Lifting forms are called "ping tua," as well as I could tell...