Second verse, same as the first.

Claire's still on vacation, so I went to aikido for lunch today; happy joy, I caught one of Yamada-sensei's classes. It was all stuff from morotedori (that's uke grabbing one of nage's wrists with both hands), which was a nice change as we'd been the all-yokomenuchi (flat snap #1 to you SCA types) channel this week. I was starting to overheat by the end of class--not seriously, just beginning to enter the spaced-out and headachy zone--but came through reasonably well.

( So, rolling. )

Mood-wise, I'm sort of a pale high-level overcast yet, but this is better than where I was earlier; and I am mildly pleased with today's progress.