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Showed up late for class on Monday as I had a conference call with London in an attempt to stop the hemmoraging of money from one of my trading desks due to some not-so-clever accounting. Accounting sucks. I have mad respect for accountants, because damn that looks like a totally miserable job.
So I got to class late and luckily missed the fun stuff at the beginning and joined in when we started various kicks. After class I felt guilty so I ran through the standard 3 rounds of sit-ups: 16 slow (4 count up, 4 count down), 16 medium (2 count up-down), and 32 wee little fast crunches as high as possible. Then I did some side crunches and Supermans (lie on your stomach, lift your left leg and right arm, alternate, fly like Superman!) before pounding on the heavy bag gloveless. Key to hitting the bag gloveless is to hit it properly; square on the first two knuckles, don't buckle the wrist, don't overpower with the arm, drive from the hips and it makes a really satisfying thump. Of course since I'm an idiot I've shredded most of the skin off of my knuckles in bad hits. But it still feels great to pummle a couple hundred kilos of sand.

Was late for class tonight as well; had to finish up some last-minute stuff and finally made it about 8. Only three in class, so we worked through four of the shintoryu kumitachi. I like working through paired forms nice and slow, working on distance, so it's good to work with some of the lower ranks.

After class I walked 40 minutes through Ginza to Shinbashi station and took the bus home. Nice breeze and not too hot and humid so walking through Ginza and checking out the first stirrings of the night is always good.

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