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la_belle_laideSo, tonight was our last night at the old Kung Fu school, and Sihing Gold Dragon gave us quite a great workout in basics. Then in black belt, we did two-person stretches and forms, which went pretty well. (And might I add that everyone was really interested in my fingernails. Well, they are really cool and painted for Halloween, check it:
They look pink but actually are orange, and the stripes are in sharpie.) Afterwards we decided that instead of going home, we would lend a hand and start getting all our gear and mats and as much as we could fit into our cars to the new school. So, Sihing Gold Dragon, High School Homeboy, The Empress and I all took up the mats and loaded them into HSHB's car. I took all the Muai Thai pads, the weights, some weapons etc. We took some of the huge bags and other gear and went down to the new school.
It's a hell of a lot bigger than the old one. There are some columns right in the damn middle but we have a huge stupid column where we were until tonight, too. This place is loads better. It's also a bit farther away from my house, but it's not ridiculously out of the way (err, like my new university.) I suppose I'm going to miss the old school since we were there for a few years and I quite liked looking out at the duck pond, but the new location is much more lively and we have a lot more of the building to ourselves. It's also right next to a fantastic Chinese restaurant; I foresee some f us going out for late dinners after class! ^_^ And also, we're having a grand opening next month, which should be really fun.
I took some pics of the old school after we tore up the mats (and Sifu had already taken down the mirrors last week,) and started packing our stuff up, and then I took some pics of the new place as it is all a huge mess which we will have to have sorted out by Monday. MONDAY.
Here is Sihing Chris with two crescent swords:
So empty!
And the new place. Sije Raq says YAY THUMBS UP!
And Sihing Chris's idea to get one of the three of us together, my idea to put it in the mirror:
So that was tonight, and tomorrow I have to get up early for the financial aid thing and all that stuff. Hopefully I will have some friends over tomorrow night. Then it's Halloween and who knows what that will bring? :)
Before I go, I needed to share this little bit of political research.
Why are conservatives generally happier than liberals?
I found this at once very predictable and very eye-opening.
The Happiness Quotient
Although right-wingers may respond more viscerally and dramatically to threats, it's liberals who are actually the Debbie Downers of the nation.
According to a 2006 Pew Research Center opinion survey, 46 percent of conservative Republicans reported that they were "very happy" while only 28 percent of liberal Democrats could say the same. This was not a one-time fluke of polling. In an analysis of data from the United States and nine other countries, Jost and a colleague found that right-wingers consistently said they were happier than their left-wing counterparts.
Some of the difference may have to do with demographics and religious beliefs; people of faith regularly report more satisfaction with their lives than the nonreligious, and conservatives tend to be more religious as a group. However, researchers suggested that two more big factors may be at play.
The first reason for all the unhappiness on the left: Liberals think too much. "To the extent that liberals tend to enjoy thinking more and to prolong cognitive closure, whereas conservatives tend to prefer relatively simple, unambiguous answers to life's questions ... liberals might become less satisfied with their current situation because of the deleterious effects of rumination and introspection," the authors of the study wrote.
Second: Right-wingers don't let the inequality in the world get to them. "Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives, apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light." Because conservative politics promote the status quo, it allows conservatives to view the status quo economic inequality as acceptable, they said. To back up this argument, researchers pointed to historical data that showed how liberals and conservatives reacted differently between the growing gap between rich and poor. As income inequality grew significantly in the United States from 1974 to 2004, the numbers of conservatives who said they were happy decreased mildly. Meanwhile, the number of happy liberals plunged. A bleeding heart, apparently, is an unhappy one.
The curse of being a thinking and caring human being!
Good night all!
They look pink but actually are orange, and the stripes are in sharpie.) Afterwards we decided that instead of going home, we would lend a hand and start getting all our gear and mats and as much as we could fit into our cars to the new school. So, Sihing Gold Dragon, High School Homeboy, The Empress and I all took up the mats and loaded them into HSHB's car. I took all the Muai Thai pads, the weights, some weapons etc. We took some of the huge bags and other gear and went down to the new school.
It's a hell of a lot bigger than the old one. There are some columns right in the damn middle but we have a huge stupid column where we were until tonight, too. This place is loads better. It's also a bit farther away from my house, but it's not ridiculously out of the way (err, like my new university.) I suppose I'm going to miss the old school since we were there for a few years and I quite liked looking out at the duck pond, but the new location is much more lively and we have a lot more of the building to ourselves. It's also right next to a fantastic Chinese restaurant; I foresee some f us going out for late dinners after class! ^_^ And also, we're having a grand opening next month, which should be really fun.
I took some pics of the old school after we tore up the mats (and Sifu had already taken down the mirrors last week,) and started packing our stuff up, and then I took some pics of the new place as it is all a huge mess which we will have to have sorted out by Monday. MONDAY.
Here is Sihing Chris with two crescent swords:
So empty!
And the new place. Sije Raq says YAY THUMBS UP!
And Sihing Chris's idea to get one of the three of us together, my idea to put it in the mirror:
So that was tonight, and tomorrow I have to get up early for the financial aid thing and all that stuff. Hopefully I will have some friends over tomorrow night. Then it's Halloween and who knows what that will bring? :)
Before I go, I needed to share this little bit of political research.
Why are conservatives generally happier than liberals?
I found this at once very predictable and very eye-opening.
The Happiness Quotient
Although right-wingers may respond more viscerally and dramatically to threats, it's liberals who are actually the Debbie Downers of the nation.
According to a 2006 Pew Research Center opinion survey, 46 percent of conservative Republicans reported that they were "very happy" while only 28 percent of liberal Democrats could say the same. This was not a one-time fluke of polling. In an analysis of data from the United States and nine other countries, Jost and a colleague found that right-wingers consistently said they were happier than their left-wing counterparts.
Some of the difference may have to do with demographics and religious beliefs; people of faith regularly report more satisfaction with their lives than the nonreligious, and conservatives tend to be more religious as a group. However, researchers suggested that two more big factors may be at play.
The first reason for all the unhappiness on the left: Liberals think too much. "To the extent that liberals tend to enjoy thinking more and to prolong cognitive closure, whereas conservatives tend to prefer relatively simple, unambiguous answers to life's questions ... liberals might become less satisfied with their current situation because of the deleterious effects of rumination and introspection," the authors of the study wrote.
Second: Right-wingers don't let the inequality in the world get to them. "Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives, apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light." Because conservative politics promote the status quo, it allows conservatives to view the status quo economic inequality as acceptable, they said. To back up this argument, researchers pointed to historical data that showed how liberals and conservatives reacted differently between the growing gap between rich and poor. As income inequality grew significantly in the United States from 1974 to 2004, the numbers of conservatives who said they were happy decreased mildly. Meanwhile, the number of happy liberals plunged. A bleeding heart, apparently, is an unhappy one.
The curse of being a thinking and caring human being!
Good night all!
