Monthly Archives: September 2009

Washburn Law Representatives and Health Care Forum

I think I’m going to add brief posts commenting on the extracurricular activities at school that I get up to, just to be doing it and help me keep my life organized. So here we go, I guess I’ll file … Continue reading

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Filed under Event, Learning, Right Living, University of Kansas

Lightning Across the Plains 2009

Friday 25Sep09 I travelled to Camp Gaea, a primarily pagan oriented campground just outside of Springdale, Kansas, for what turned out to be the largest gathering of Heathens in the Midwest, and the largest gathering of Heathens so far this year in North America. The event was organized by my very good friends in the Kansas City area, Jotun’s Bane Kindred. JBK are a dynamo of right works, and this event perfectly represented that fact, as it was impressively organized and executed, with a great time had by all. Continue reading

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Filed under Event, Folk, The Heathen Gods

Fitness Report 25Sep09

Waist – 39.5″ Weight – 213.2 lbs Body Fat Percentage – 26% / 30.5% Overweight by – 24 pounds Exercising – Yes, though not as much as I want to Dieting – Not really I feel – Exhuasted I had … Continue reading

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2009 Greater Kansas City Japan Festival

Today was an exhausting day. The Greater Kansas City Japan Festival was held again by the Heart of America Japan-America Society of Kansas City. I was involved in workshops and demonstrations all day. It started out for me with the iaido workshop, which was attended fairly well. We lent bokuto to about a dozen people and performed two or three kihon waza. Here I got to feel confident and cool, but that changed after the workshop when we went up on stage to do the demonstration. Continue reading

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Filed under Budo, Event, Iaido, Kendo

Electrified Foot Stomper

Thursday at fencing I had my first electrified bouts. During the practice we were fencing dry, and I did well enough to win a bout against a senior student. Once we got electrified I wasn’t sure what was going on … Continue reading

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Filed under Budo, Fencing, Iaido, Kendo