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Wow. It’s been three days since I returned from the Martial Arts conference and I’m still grappling with the lessons learned there. Within the course of two days my world suddenly became a much bigger place. More about that on the Martial Arts Page.

One of the other projects I’m involved in when I’m not at work is setting up a Theatre Company. I’ve been involved in theatre for a number of years on a college basis. Basically, the theatre scene here is Rochester, well… kinda sucks. We have one major professional theatre here in town that stages good stuff from time to time. But the majority of their stuff is way too safe. The rest of the professional and semi pro groups in town are a pretty mixed bag at best. Any hoo, I’m documenting our progress in the creation of the company on my Theatre Page. I’ll have a report up later today on our meeting with the associate director of University of Rochester’s International Theatre Program.

Other than that I’ve been fighting exhaustion and a bit of depression. My body is trying to recover from the weekend. I’m feeling a lot better as I got more sleep last night. Night’s here have been very hot and I’m too cheap to get AC. Oh, check out the new look of Julia’s Blog! I need to get on the ball and add links to my friends blogs from this page. *Sigh* So much to do and such little time….

We had the work group picnic yesterday and everything went off without a hitch! Jenny, Abby, Tina, Jo, Sarah, and I were in charge. We had it at a Rochester Redwings game. Check out thier site and the cheezy flash animation that kicks it off. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I didn’t see very much of the game cause I was to busy playing with some of the kids there.

And with this I’m off to Super Summers. I managed to throw together a quick website for the school. Check it out here. It’s just brochure-ware now, but pretty soon I’ll get some pictures and more up there. Blog to you on Monday….

I’ve been working very hard to get in the habit of posting once a day. Unfortunately there is still a lot about blogger I don’t understand. For example can posts only be a certain length? I keep having issues posting my updates in the Martial Arts page. Thankfully, I can bring out the big guns on this problem and talk with Jenny. Check out her page for the gripping account of the rescue of Spiderman who had been lost between the walls of our partitions.

I’ve been practicing to get ready for this martial arts seminar coming up this weekend. As part of that I’ve been trying to spend a lot of time brushing up on my Monkey skills. Rolling is a big aspect of that. It’s an area where I’ve approved greatly. Watching me fall and roll in the past was not unlike seeing a sack o’ flour hit the floor. But even today I still sometimes hit the ground a little too hard. So I have a small silver dollar sized black and blue mark on my right shoulder blade. Which, along with a sore right shoulder, makes sleeping a little difficult. So the past few nights my trips to the magical land of dreams have been troubled at best. Needless to say I’m feelin’ a little sleepy.

After a lot of tweaking I’ve finally settled on a page design that I like for my homepage/blog. I realize that I shouldn’t be this finicky, but when you work on the web you tend to want to put your best foot forward. There is still some tweaking that needs to go on. But it’s a big improvement.This weekend I’m going to be off at Super Summers, a weekend long Martial Arts seminar held at Colgate University in Hamilton NY (about an hour outside of Albany). I’ll be assisting my instructor, Sifu Mark Cardona, instructing 2 seminars. Over the two days (Saturday and Sunday) there will be roughly 40 seminars given in subjects ranging from nutrition to ground fighting. The majority of the material tends to be focused on Karate and other Japanese martial arts. We’re going to be doing a Monkey Kung Fu demo there that will be very different than a lot of the material covered. Because of that we’re expecting a large audience, as it will be a great chance for folks to get exposed to something that they’ve only seen in bad Kung Fu films.

Speaking of bad Kung Fu films, we’ve also been asked to present a demo on Saturday night. The typical demo usually is a form or Kata set to music. Or sometimes a short presentation. In our case, we’re opting for something a bit more original. Basically we’re staging a bad Kung Fu movie (like a Shaw Brother’s production). We’re still working on it, so I’ll have more tomorrow.

In the meantime I need to get the Theatre and Martial Arts pages up and running. But all and all this is a good start.