Thermoplastics - practice knives

Taking American Kenpo Karate lessons through a local community college. The teacher instructs us on empty hand as well as knife techniques (the theory being anything you can do with one can be done with the other to greater or lesser effect). Unfortunately, only one student has practice knives, so we don't get to do much actual practicing.

Until I show up, and think "hey, I could make those out of thermoplastics..."

Signs of stress

     This past week was a bit stressful, with several major deadlines coming due at once. One of my coworkers doesn't handle that sort of stress well, and would ask me - quite literally - every fifteen minutes if I'd had updates on any of them. While I'm fairly stable under stress, that was a little much for me; rather than bring in my nerf guns and teach him the folly of his ways, I simply decorated a desk plant I have and placed it where he'd see it when he wheeled his chair back to ask me questions:

Stories

     As mentioned in my previous post, I've gotten away from telling stories about myself. Telling stories in general, however, continues. Here's the first part of one I've been working on lately:

Sylvia Bishop, Chapter 1

Fewer words

     As I try to be a calmer, more patient and forgiving person, I find that I have less that I'm willing to say, and less to talk about on the blog. Not that I don't still have opinions, I just don't feel they need to be shared as much. So rather than a wordy post, here are two photos taken at one of our construction sites at work that I felt were quietly pretty. There's a lot of clamour for people's attention lately; I appreciate the quiet moments more.

Dormancy

     Been a bit quiet of late. Some of that is that I've been busy getting things done, and some of it is that I'm simply becoming quieter. My opinion does not need to be given on every issue that comes my way, especially since I'm not completely informed on many of them. Unfortunately, since sketches are usually my opinion on things, that does mean I've done less drawing lately. It's not gone, though, no worries there.

     Anyway, as things are slowing down with the season change, thought I'd catch up here. In no particular order, here are things that I've worked on recently:

Sewing: Halloween outfit (Slytherin student from Hogwarts, and apparently this was the most people who've ever dressed up for Halloween at work), and work pants.

Exercise: Still doing boot camp two nights a week, and running twice a week at home. The Kenpo Karate class is on break until December; I'm enjoying that quite a bit.