Spring, when a young person's fancy turns to.....

[gurdymonkey]

1. Making a hell of a racket. It's official. I am registered (and paid) for Taiko For Beginners. Classes start April 15 and it probably won't be ANYTHING like this. In my favor, I can keep a beat and know how to listen to others in an ensemble. Fitness-wise I suspect this is going to kick my ass - two miles a day or not.

2. Making new clothes. The day started with someone squeakingly new on sca-jml. Then I got TWO emails today from people who'd hit my website. One is some high school kid who wants to make her own Heian outfit looking for a nagabakama pattern, the other was a young man involved in Dagohir (LARP) looking for patterns for men's stuff. I referred them to the appropriate places since those are wheels I have not seen fit to reinvent.  Personally, I will probably start work on Mike's squire obi this weekend.

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[bovil.livejournal.com]

karisu_sama and didjiman are long-haul taiko students, and they'll be with us on Saturday night. Karisu is the gal I told you about who is now studying at Emeryville.

Horizon Broadening 101

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Kewl! It'll give me something more to say than "Wow, that's the biggest hair I've seen since 1985."

I did have a look at the Emeryville website, but I figured doing this through the adult school (conveniently here in town as opposed to on the other side of the Maze) would be a good way to get my feet wet and see whether I like it enough to do it for more than ten weeks.