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We were only 2 girls amongst the higher grades in a crowd of big angry men. The grading was roughly 5 hours long (no water breaks either) with 2 hours before that of training. I was already exhausted upon the start of it and simply starving and dehydrated by the end My training partner then proceeded to leg it (damn you T.) after the training without telling anyone which made it that I had to be paired up with someone Im really incompatible with... This eventually got me bad remarks from the grader. My technical stuff was all there which made it even more annoying that this happened. I never got asked one of the most important things that I was relying on to show my skills which was another annoyance (2 man attacks). Knowing the grader was of no help as well and he called me out about stuff a few times while I was just trying to hide. Oh, and his reputation as the hardest grader was certainly confirmed. This big novice guy from my club was grading and I think he was envisioning the grading to be easy: show your stuff and you get the belt. Hes a brown belt in another style and has done gradings before but I expect his were a lot less hardcore as he looked terrified during the whole thing (who isnt to be fair). Anyone who has done one of our gradings knows that after months of hard training and 5 hours of psychological and physical abuse, it just sucks not to pass. So yeah I was pretty bummed out last week. I expect I wasnt the only one either as quite a few people didnt make it through. At least I didnt get told to fuck off like this one guy Thinking about having to do this all over again is rather unpleasant.

4. My record is expected for this fall which is a lot later than we thought but the deal is sweet and would pretty much allow us to do one per year if they sell well! In the spirit of Josh Hommess Desert sessions. This means wed probably have volume 2 done before volume 1 would even be out haha. I couldnt be there when all this was discussed but they were apparently quite impressed with our stuff

5. Some articles on us are expected in the coming months in a French magazine called Rock Sound. They want to interview us for an article in their most selling issue of the year as well which is great!

6. I competed in the Randori (think Jitsu with Judo rules) nationals 3 weeks ago. My club won, again (for the 8th time I think) which was groovy. I spent the night celebrating in the emergency room of UCLHospital to get some treatment for the lung infection which fell upon me 2 days before competing. I did well but lets face it I was ill and tired, missed my medal because of that and came in 4th Im so getting my revenge next year.

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I apologize if theyre shit, the lighting in that place is horrendous for photography.

at the beginning


Im the one on the right


Im the one on top


Then there was a mix-up with a strangle and I got fucked (Im on the bottom)


Standing stuff (Im the one with the bun like ponytail)

7.My dude was asked to give a guitar lesson to the guy from Simple Plan while they were in Paris last month. I was around so we watched their show a bit and hung out. Not really my type of music but they were very nice.

8. Due to some theatre writing stuff I do, I get to meet this author Ive recently discovered and love this tuesday. Shes called Moira Buffini and wrote this fantastic play called Dinner. I strongly suggest it to you!

9. Chai drew me! Shes fantastic and very talented, go congratulate her!


10.One of my new toys! (on the right) It was given to me last month and is incredibly cute (and hard to tune right). The Channel tunnel cops thought it was fucking awesome when I brought it over! The other one is to give you an idea in regards to its size



Thats it for now, hopefully the internet will stay and Ill be able to answer comments soon!

So, tell me what your ideal birthday is!?