enter...thesis

so, i started my thesis this friday. i hope you are all proud of me. it's due in 24 days, which is too scary to think about, and i am intensely behind. however, i have found that the work really isn't that painful. i kind of actual enjoy reading the articles (gasp!). it's a little nauseating to say, but it's true. makes me think that graduate school in chemistry wouldn't be a total living hell. anyhow, i just sit under my loft on my fouton couch and type away and read away the day. sometimes my butt goes numb from all the sitting, so i do funny little things like wandering up and down our stairs trying to read and stay on track until all the pins and needles are gone. however, i have found an even better replacement for the boredom. POI!

read on only if poi talk doesn't bore you:

the weather is finally nice and i have a lovely yard to spin in. it's funny to 'train' again. i guess i usually just play, but now i have goals and they require that i am able to complete all of my moves on any side from any direction. for example. i discovered that i can only do the 5-beat corkscrew and 5-beat windmill one direction. it's totally bothersome because i can't turn into either of those moves without the 50/50 chance of screwing it up if it's on the wrong side. yeah, so let the beating begin. i have been spinning exclusively with the new poi lebn made for me (which consist of 10 yards of 2 inch wick weaved lanyarn style, they are beautiful but very different from my old poi that are made from only 3 yards of wick), and let me tell ya they HURT when they hit you. i had a really nice face shot today that stung for about 10 minutes afterwards.

anyhow, here is my conquest of the day:

i have the 3-beat behind the back weave pretty solid both forwards and backwards, however, now i really want to link them so i can make full circle turns behind the back (crazy i know). so, i discovered that now i only have a forward to backwards turn on the left side. i worked forwards to backwards turn on the right side for about 20 minutes. i figured it out, but it is still really shaky. after that i worked on the backwards to forwards turn. i got a few and after that i actually linked 2 FULL CIRCLE TURNS!!! hoorah yippee.

it was fabulous.

yup. back to thesis. more poi updates to come i'm sure