never tell me the odds

I want my E.

There, I said it.

I'm not consumed with getting rated, but I find myself thinking of it every time I'm fencing a small and/or mostly Es and under tournament. It feels close, and I kind of hope...

Even though such thoughts are f)*^ing fatal to my game. Even though I know the "squee" would wear off quickly, and even though ratings are not why I started competing, I still sorta want one.

I want to know I can get that far, that the hours spent and injuries weren't for naught (they weren't), I want the letter by my name to inspire a bit of second-guessing in my opponents.

And it's embarrassing to admit that I'm that vain or feel that entitled. It'll happen if it happens, but still.

Maybe putting this out there will dump it from my mind so I can get about the far more rewarding activity of just fencing.

tweet(s) of the day

• 02:22 Men Who Stare At Goats = Don Quixote with The Dude and goats. Not blindingly funny but lots of fun, esp. Clooney's deadpan delivery.
• 02:23 What a job! RT @FashionHistoria: RT @james3neal: ONLY at Santa Cruz - Job opp - Grateful Dead Archivist - UC/Santa Cruz - is.gd/4PZQC
• 02:24 RT @mactavish: RT @IreneKoehler: RT @BarackObama This is history.
• 02:25 RT @briandgregory: The Stark Industries logo looks oddly like the Lockeed Martin logo. #justsayin <- well yeah...
• 02:27 It's 2 am & I need to be online like a fat hole in my head. Signing off...

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the truth really is stranger than fiction

I saw "The Men Who Stare At Goats" last night and was mightily amused. A great deal of what makes the humor work is George Clooney's earnest delivery of his role as a spy who really, truly believes himself to be psychic.

The ads bill it as "based on a true story" and it's amazing - and disturbing - how closely the movie resembles the efforts of the U.S. military to train soldiers in psychic warfare. My fellow Americans, your tax money at work:

This is part 1 - YouTube should have all 5 parts

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Proof that there is woo, stupid, and crazy everywhere, even in the seats of power.