This one goes out to my currently most frequented dojo. After I left Purdue in January 2006 I found myself in lovely Baton Rouge attending my third college: Louisiana State University. Since then whenever I'm in town I trained more here. LSU's sensei, Ricky Pampo (center) is a New Orleanian like myself, and has been training for years. I enjoy his and Jon's (right) classes very much. KNUCKLE PUSHUPS!!!! AAA!!!
Another thing I always enjoy about LSU karate is their sense of community. Every week the whole lot of us descend upon some poor unsuspecting local sushi restaurant and attempt to deplete their entire stock of food stuffs. Even when people leave the club and move to another city we still keep in contact and will often visit with one another. This in addition to the new people that join every semester makes this dojo feel like my extended family... which is also big and enjoying of massive food-involving parties. :)
If anyone would like to join this club, especially if you go to LSU, I would highly recommend it. We meet in the student Rec center on Tuesdays and Thursdays and would love to see anyone interested in some training. Please see the Karate Club's official website for more information.
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( 3 / 208 )"True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest,
What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest..."
That's got to be one of my favorite quotes of all time. It's from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism." In this work he discusses both the humerus hypocrisy of many critics as well as what he considers to be a true measure of worthwhile writing: observation. On that note,though this is no real work of literature, I would like to report some observations of self evident truths I have encountered in the past 23 years:
1. Yawns, throat clearing, and head scratching are all contagious in somewhere from 1 to 10 seconds.
2. You're doing one of them right now aren't you?
3. If a skinny girl farts silently in a crowded room, she never gets the blame.
4. When you are starving, anything tastes good.
5. It's the lack of things... the pause in a film, empty space in a painting, rest in a song, etc. that make any work of art what it is.
6. Humans can grow accustomed to anything, even change itself.
7. The key to being number one is not intense practice, nor is it being the most talented. You just have to be decent at what you do and last longer at it than everyone else.
8. The more we speak of groups of people as a unit and not as individuals, the more we handicap ourselves from getting to know anyone well.
9. It's not easy to admit to a mistake in logic.
10. It's almost impossible to admit to a mistaken emotion.
11. The worst advice is often the easiest to find.
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