Well, lectures begin again tomorow, a day which also brings with it the resumption of Amnesty’s meetings, training for fencing, an essay deadline and two audits.

I finished Amnesty’s audit today and submitted a little while ago, so it should be on Ian’s computer tomorow when he’ll inspect our financial activities. But, before that I’ll get to sit in on the fencing audit since the president is required to attend, so I might aswell to get some insight as to what to expect for Amnesty’s one.
My essay that’s due in tomorow, still isn’t finished yet,and I’m starting to have some major doubts about how I did the things I’m writing about. Ah well, it shall be finished and handed in on time if it costs me a night’s sleep.

Yesterday was the Trinity Cup, so that meant a painfully early morning to catch the train to town to go play stabby-stabby with some other clubs. We managed to scrape together a short notice team even though most of the few females we have in the club weren’t availible to go, and we needed two girls on the team, damn Italian Relay being so odd. It turned out to be a pretty good competition. I spent the first part of the morning shitting a brick over the ass-kicking I knew I’d get in my matches…But after awhile I managed to calm down with the help of my team mates, and the supporters from our club who didnt get on the team. Out of my 6 matches, I won 2, which I think is pretty good considering I’ve only been training in epee since December and had no training in January save for an emergency session during the week for this competition. I’m feeling a little more confident about the Cork competition now, though trying to get some of the basics down for saber in three weeks is going to be really difficult.
Kyle got some video footage on my camera of some of the matches yesterday so I’m loading them onto youtube so I can put them on the club’s Bebo page. It’s painful watching my ones because epee is just so damn slow. ah well, saber makes up for it. None of shane’s matches yesterday got timed because that’s how fast it is. Epee and foil are three minutes each, but I think Shane’s matches lasted on average a minute and a half. Eeeeeeep.
Ah well, I can only do my best. I’ll have the first day of the Cork comp to practice and wander around Cork city, since none of my matches will be til the Sunday, so I won’t have too many bruises clashing with my fancy new dress. 🙂
Turns out an old friend that I haven’t talked to in years was at the competition too. He’s on the Trinity team, so he turned up to cheer them on towards the end and help with the tidying up. We had a fun chat about stuff in general and a little remanissing about the past. Made for an interesting way to end the competition.

Life’s not going half bad right now. 🙂