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  1. Neir

    Feeling simultaneously very loved by the aro community and very socially isolated by my IRL friends. I hope everyone here is doing all right, and if anyone else is feeling lonely, I invite you to my virtual corner!

    1. Apathetic Echidna

      Apathetic Echidna

      I'm certainly feeling that right now. 

    2. Neir

      Neir

      I'm sending virtual hugs and support your way. We'll get through this!

  2. Neir

    Got a phone call from my uni. I have been given a last-minute upgrade to the thesis-based Master's degree I was originally rejected from! So excited. Good things happen sometimes ?

    1. NullVector

      NullVector

      Yay! Happy for you, I remember being super hyped when I got accepted onto a PhD course ^_^

  3. Neir

    That feeling when all your good friends begin to ignore you, and all of your attempts to make new friends are blocked by people having romantic partners or an already-established group of close friends...

    Heartbreaking. And boring. /Rant over

    1. Neir

      Neir

      Thank you for coming to sit with me in this little pit of despair! (There's always room here...) Funny enough, it actually helps to know I'm not just overbearing; the few people I have that do not ignore me are the keepers. It's frustrating but a part of life I will have to deal with more and more as I grow older. Wish it weren't that way

    2. Eklinaar

      Eklinaar

      I think you're pretty cool, and I doubt you're overbearing.  People just don't seem to take friendship seriously.

  4. Neir

    Not sure there are other karateka here, but I'm just really uncontainably excited that the kata (a series of moves kind of like a dance but with punching) I am slated to learn soon is the one Rika Usami performed when she won world championships - Chatanyara Kushanku. I have a soft spot in my heart for that kata because I've seen the recording so so many times to cheer myself up. :) Edit: Here is the recording: https://youtu.be/iiiznDpoapQ

     

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    2. NullVector

      NullVector

      @running.tally Ooh, you posted it. That looks like it will be fun to learn!

       

      It's closer to some of the Chinese martial arts 'katas' (they don't use a japanese word, lol, but it's a similar concept) I've done than I was expecting. The turning movements and 'blocks' remind me a bit of wing chun's chum kiu 'kata' (some 'snake' and 'crane' influences in both maybe?)

       

      We need a super slow mo version of the start so we can see how the power generation works ?. She seems to be doing a lot of waist/torso rotation at 1.29 which would make it similar to the way tai chi does it? 

       

      @SoulWolf Whoops, I remembered wrong! At least it was still a japanese martial art tho ?

    3. Neir

      Neir

      @NullVector I love the comparison to the crane! As for power generation, I know that in my own style we rely a lot on hip rotation so it looks like she is doing something similar. :D

    4. Holmbo

      Holmbo

      So fast :o

  5. Neir

    Passed my final road test! Now I can be a Real Driving Adult™ (Oh no...).

    1. Eklinaar

      Eklinaar

      Best of luck!

       

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  6. Neir

    Thanks, UofT, for giving me no scholarships/funding and for granting me entrance to my second choice program (which has no thesis component), despite me doing everything right. What did you want from me, exactly? More than 3 publications at the undergraduate level? Was a 97% average not enough? Did my references secretly hate me and make up shitty reviews? /end grad school venting

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