Wonder crisis powers, activate!

There are definitely worse places to have spent character points than in the ability to keep cool in, and deal with, crises. I could wish for more ephemeral things, but boy, when this is what's needed, it's _really_ needed.

Though it's a good thing that we have a plan apparently acceptable to all parties (and that can be swiftly executed) on the table. My shoulders are broad but they're slowly bowing down under other people's Issues, and my joie de vivre is concurrently dribbling away.

It's sort of astounding how timely the arrival of aikido was--it's what's keeping me going right now. Apparently Mr. Subconscious was looking out for me. Note to self: double his salary.

Loaf, half of.

There was aikido, and I was happy...except that my belly is broken. Some muscle down there is fine until I try to move it, at which point there's a claw of fire slicing diagonally up my gut on the right side. I noticed it during Arisia, mostly when trying to get out of bed, but it's _very_ obvious during aikido; one of the pre-class stretches is, basically, bending over backwards, and I couldn't get more than a few degrees back without screaming agony. It's also one of the muscles which does things when rolling, which sort of CRIMPS MY STYLE MORE THAN A BIT ahem.

My instructor was very understanding and we worked on things which didn't activate that muscle, but I feel like the world's biggest wuss. It's easy enough for the rational faculties to say "you are doing lots of intense exercise on practically-unused muscles, pushing it is just going to make things worse", but they tend to get drowned out by testosterone and the fear of loss of face.

The rest of me got a good workout, though. I think I'll be hobbling tomorrow again. (Eris chortles: the dojo was closed yesterday for the holiday anyways.)

It'll do.

This evening could have gone worse. Some important stuff got talked about, and I got some painting done, and other than the gut pain still hanging around I'm not too sore from today's session.

( Some kind of personality test )