BJJ Grrl

…of page views this weekend. Wowzers. I go do TKD for a few days, and look what happens. One was from a site that I still haven’t quite figured out, but it somehow sent a ton of traffic this way.

The other was from The FightWorks Podcast’s BJJ Blog of the Year post, since both Steve and Slideyfoot nominated my blog. Thanks, guys. (I’d nominate ya’ll back, but it looks like several other folks already got you up there.)

Nominations are still open, so if you know of any good BJJ blogs that aren’t listed there yet, go post them. The judges will make a final list from all the nominations, and then FWP listeners/readers will vote.

TKD

Testing went well. All the white belts passed to gold, though they were all nervous and almost afraid. The advanced belts — all 5 who tested — also passed, and they actually looked really good. (Testing over the summer, not so good.) We also had a black belt pow-wow after testing with the two wannabe head instructors, who are both conditional black belts now. Conclusion is that they’ll be made co-head instructors should they both get their black belts next semester.

Found out during the test that one of our former club members, Mike Z., is now fighting MMA. (He already had his black belt in a different style when he joined the club, but he hung around and worked out with us anyway.) It’s about time. Even though I do TKD, I would generally say that if someone lists that as their primary stand-up style that you’ll be okay. If you’re facing Mike Z., however, I’d say, “Start running.” His first fight was ~21 seconds, win by KO.

Testing over, though, means that I’m done with TKD. I may stop in next semester or next year, but I don’t have to bail on BJJ or MMA any more. Huzzah! I can’t ever say that I regret any of my time with the club, because if it weren’t for the club I wouldn’t be doing BJJ right now. But it is time to move on, and I’m finally ready to.

NaNo

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Write a 50,000-word novel in one month. I did it last year and finished. Of course, last year I had a job and no free time, so making time was almost easy. This year, with a whole month of little to do, I’ve had trouble “finding” enough time.

Finally started tonight, though. Not a lot so far (~2,000 words), and not a lot of time left (1 week), but we’ll see if that’s enough pressure to get past my inner procrastinator/perfectionist.

A warning: The OCD^* is striking again (probably because the inner procastinator/perfectionist is trying to sabotoge my NaNo attempt), so I may completely wreck my categories and/or tags in the next week. I apologize in advance if that causes problems for anyone or if it blows anything up.

^{*Or, as I’ve heard it called recently, CDO: the letters in alphabetical order like they’re supposed to be. Sadly, I find myself nodding in agreement….}