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I'm in my college's wushu club (performance-based Chinese martial arts - no combat lol). The forms are pretty tricky to do since they're so aesthetic-oriented, and require a lot of flexibility and strength especially in the legs/butt, neither of which I've been working on this summer.

So you're saying you need to work on your legs and your butt?

Oh, this just gets better.

To be honest, I'm kinda surprised though...I always took you as more bookish than athletic.

To be honest, I'm kinda surprised though...I always took you as more bookish than athletic.

I'm surprised too tbh... if you go back to like a year ago I pretty much hated exercising, and sweat, and all that. (I still kinda do haha but the community is supportive and if I'm being honest I probably stayed largely for the friends I made)

(I actually did happen to do wushu before but it was one of those things that I felt more pushed into doing by parents than anything else)

I'm surprised too tbh... if you go back to like a year ago I pretty much hated exercising, and sweat, and all that. (I still kinda do haha but the community is supportive and if I'm being honest I probably stayed largely for the friends I made)

(I actually did happen to do wushu before but it was one of those things that I felt more pushed into doing by parents than anything else)

Will this lead to you doing other athletic things? Will you become a jock?

I'm surprised too tbh... if you go back to like a year ago I pretty much hated exercising, and sweat, and all that. (I still kinda do haha but the community is supportive and if I'm being honest I probably stayed largely for the friends I made)

(I actually did happen to do wushu before but it was one of those things that I felt more pushed into doing by parents than anything else)

Will this lead to you doing other athletic things? Will you become a jock?

I doubt it, though I think I recognize more the importance of exercise now.

In that case, I will await further surprises from your college experience.

So my wife and I finally got to move back in to our apartment that we were forced to move out of when the dorm building flooded back in November. We'd lived in a hotel room and two other much smaller dorm rooms over the past 8 months, but we're finally back, which makes both my wife and my cat very happy.

Also, I just got promoted after working a month and a half at my new job to a full-time managerial position. Before, I worked Saturdays and Sundays selling produce from a local organic farm at farmers' markets, but now I'll work Thursday to Monday managing all of our farmers' market shifts (about a dozen people/shifts).

So things are hectic, but they're looking up.

That feeling when you're eating the dish your avatar is.

I'm finishing my postgraduate degree in like 7 weeks? Graduating by December! I hope to find a job I love, as cheesy as that sounds.

In "smaller" news, we just got a 28 litre oven and a new shoe rack. 

I've been super busy over the weekend helping someone move, setting up for school, etc. so I've missed a lot of Summersend.

I have mentioned this cat quite a few times on here and the Discord as one who used to visit my family and myself at our house although she was not our cat.  March or April of last year was the last time all three of us saw her.  Until last Sunday when I looked up lost cats at a local animal shelter's website and found a picture of one that looked like a good match for her because I never gave up hope of finding her.  I still haven't completely given up hope but it is with great sadness that I am accepting that she is probably gone because on Tuesday when the shelter was open, my mom went to see if she was there and found out that this cat had arrived like 2 days before I saw the picture and was in horrible shape upon arrival and had died earlier that morning.

I think she would have been around 5 years old now.  I don't know because about 3 years ago on one summer morning she gave birth to a litter of kittens in our yard.  We got a vet to fix her and he also gave her a physical and gave us an age estimate: about 2 years old.

  RIP "Piglet" (my mom gave her that name)   The second cat that I got to know well and loved and then lost soon afterwards.

This was one of the best pictures I took of her: https://imgur.com/a/x2aGfmb.

@A self deprecating Kane: Sorry to hear about Piglet, may she rest in peace.

Do you own cats, or if not have you considered getting one? It sounds like you've fallen in love with a few cats around your house, and you have such love and compassion for them...I think you'd be a great owner of one, too.

Cats are pretty nice, I must admit. I am sorry to hear about piglet.

@A self deprecating Kane: Sorry to hear about Piglet, may she rest in peace.

Do you own cats, or if not have you considered getting one? It sounds like you've fallen in love with a few cats around your house, and you have such love and compassion for them...I think you'd be a great owner of one, too.

Before we moved we had a cat but we aren't allowed to have any pets where we live right now.  If we were then we probably would have a cat.  I actually was a volunteer at a local SPCA branch for a few months and worked in the cat and kitten areas giving them attention, talking about them, and cleaning after them.  I am definitely willing to give cats a lot of attention, my problem is that I am easily frightened and tend to jump away whenever a cat tries to paw at me or nip, even if it is obviously just playing.  I also don't have much pain tolerance and am so sensitive that if I was holding one I would immediately feel the claws before they started to dig in.  I also am not home all that often which would make it harder and I tend to ignore other things unless they get my attention.

TLDR: We can't have pets where we live so we would have to hide them when the landlord was around.  In theory I could be a good cat owner but I think in reality I wouldn't be that good of one at least not by myself.

@A self deprecating Kane: That sucks, but maybe your situation will change in the future, and I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit either...I still think you could be a good cat owner.

I am sure it will change.  I tend to be hard on myself (part of the reason I changed forum name to this one ).  People sometimes have gotten frustrated with me because of my self deprecation.