Senseless Act of Quotation

Little Red Riding Hood: I wish...
Cinderella: I know.

--Into the Woods

ARMA Workshop Coming

There's going to be an ARMA workshop in NYC in October! To have an official workshop right here at home is incredibly, incredibly cool--ARMA is based in Houston, and I didn't expect there to be a workshop even close to here for some time yet. This will give me a huge push forward in longsword progress. In other happy news, I will have a waster to bring, since mine finally arrived. (A waster is a wooden sword with the approximate weight, balance, and aerodynamic qualities of a steel sword. You can use it hard in place of a good steel blade you don't want to ruin, and, while it's not preferred for sparring--there are contact-sparring weapons for that--it doesn't injure you as badly if you get whacked with it.) Not only would I not have been certain of being able to borrow one for the workshop, but now I have a month to practice with it ahead of time.

WEE-haw! So psyched!

Since this news came just as I had handed in revisions on my book, I have to say that this was a very good day.