Life: Torchwood and Fencing
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neveralarchSpent yesterday at the Big One, which is an awesome fencing meet and one of my favorites of the year. This is because it's really low-pressure (i.e. all of the pressure is from my highly competitive nature and not from the coaches, so, actually, still really high-pressure, just not as much) and because it was my first fencing competition two years ago and is thus full of nostalgia.
It is also full of equipment problems, because it's everyone's first competition of the season. Yellow cards for broken shit abound, and the strip equipment is always a bit iffy. In my pool it turned out one of our reels was ungrounded, so that every time someone made a parry, the person on the left got a touch. This meant we got delayed by five or ten minutes while people worked on the reel, tried to find another strip to move to, and so on. So I was talking to one of the other fencers in the pool who I share friends with.
Turns out she's going to study abroad in Wales next semester. In CARDIFF. And she's a huge fan of Torchwood and Doctor Who. Her plan is to get a big wool coat and then stand where the invisible elevator is supposed to be, looking hopeful. I suggested she stand on the tops of big buildings on windy days - she didn't think that was a very good idea. But then again, she hasn't seen Children of Earth (because of character death), so I don't know if I trust her judgment. Still. Wales! I will have to figure out fannish things to do when I go to Germany, I can't think of any now.
ANYWAY, the important thing is that then we started talking about Doctor Who, and then we fenced and I beat her, and I finished in the top 25 (out of 60-odd). But that's the less interesting part, so whatever.
It is also full of equipment problems, because it's everyone's first competition of the season. Yellow cards for broken shit abound, and the strip equipment is always a bit iffy. In my pool it turned out one of our reels was ungrounded, so that every time someone made a parry, the person on the left got a touch. This meant we got delayed by five or ten minutes while people worked on the reel, tried to find another strip to move to, and so on. So I was talking to one of the other fencers in the pool who I share friends with.
Turns out she's going to study abroad in Wales next semester. In CARDIFF. And she's a huge fan of Torchwood and Doctor Who. Her plan is to get a big wool coat and then stand where the invisible elevator is supposed to be, looking hopeful. I suggested she stand on the tops of big buildings on windy days - she didn't think that was a very good idea. But then again, she hasn't seen Children of Earth (because of character death), so I don't know if I trust her judgment. Still. Wales! I will have to figure out fannish things to do when I go to Germany, I can't think of any now.
ANYWAY, the important thing is that then we started talking about Doctor Who, and then we fenced and I beat her, and I finished in the top 25 (out of 60-odd). But that's the less interesting part, so whatever.
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Date: 2010-12-02 07:50 am (UTC)Also now I'm scared because I just wrote a fencing scene into one of my fics and someone on my flist is going to know if I did it wrong! Time to do more research!
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Date: 2010-12-02 08:52 pm (UTC)I try not to be critical! And I'm usually being too happy about the existence of fencing in fic to judge too much. (Also, I'm willing to help out if your research gets stuck or something, if you're actually worried about it.)