misc. update
Jan. 17th, 2005 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asthranHRB looks positive. I'll have 10 on the job training hours this week, and then next week is the start of Peak hours. It looks like I have a good chance of learning the electronic transfer system, and/or working as a "preparer's assistant," basically data-entering W-2's, 1040's, and that sort of thing, leaving the preparers to conduct the interview proper.
I finished my new bodice. I have no slack at the waist, the bust is a little loose, and there're some wrinkles where I didn't match things up just right, but nothing horribly obvious.
I did some awesome new things with my poi. Tali showed me a neat thingy where you spin the poi asynchronously over your head, and occasionally dip them under your arm, and I figured out how to do that, yay! I also was able to spin a bit behind my back!! I can't do anything too impressive yet, but I at least can cross both hands behind at once, and bring them back (ie, a basic X-cross) without hitting myself in the head or calves *too* much.
The drum circle this last weekend was interesting, as I witnessed my first ever almost-fight...
I loaned my poi to David (who seems to be getting puppy-doggish, I need to have a word with him, methinks), and he was spinning on the sidewalk when a group of five people, all pretty drunk, walked by. The lead female shouted at him to "get those fucking things out of my way" (or words to that effect) and whoo-eee, what a responce! The high and mighty of the world insulted a bunch of gutterpunks and streetsnipes, and they were not going to get off easy! There was an immediate verbal response on our side (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
socraticlaughtr, what did you say?), scorning the female's elevated opinion of herself, to which the alpha male of the group came to Lead Female's defense. There was much shouting on both sides, David took off his coat to avoid it being torn further, and a peacemaker male on their side came running to try and calm things down. Had he managed to get his friends extradited sooner he may have been more successful, but as it was, Peacemaker kept on coming back to apologize for his friends' behavior (I believe - that was what his posture said, I was standing about 8 feet away and couldn't hear exactly what was being said), which meant that his friends stayed near, and hostilities continued. After a couple minutes, the bulk of the participants/gawkers moved 30 or so feet away, which is where the fight almost began.
Later, one guy said that their side threw the first punch, but all I could see from my angle was one of our side, a male wearing purple pants, suddenly spring (to my mind, as though he had a bungee tied around his waist) forward and to the side, all limbs... flailing? Really, I wouldn't have thought it possible for arms, legs, and body to move in conjunction like that. Thankfully, it ended shortly after that, the preps went on their way, and our participants came back.
Later,socraticlaughtr and I saw Alpha Male pissing in the corner of a parking ramp, while Peacemaker was talking on his cell phone. There was much amusement and scoffing.
I finished my new bodice. I have no slack at the waist, the bust is a little loose, and there're some wrinkles where I didn't match things up just right, but nothing horribly obvious.
I did some awesome new things with my poi. Tali showed me a neat thingy where you spin the poi asynchronously over your head, and occasionally dip them under your arm, and I figured out how to do that, yay! I also was able to spin a bit behind my back!! I can't do anything too impressive yet, but I at least can cross both hands behind at once, and bring them back (ie, a basic X-cross) without hitting myself in the head or calves *too* much.
The drum circle this last weekend was interesting, as I witnessed my first ever almost-fight...
I loaned my poi to David (who seems to be getting puppy-doggish, I need to have a word with him, methinks), and he was spinning on the sidewalk when a group of five people, all pretty drunk, walked by. The lead female shouted at him to "get those fucking things out of my way" (or words to that effect) and whoo-eee, what a responce! The high and mighty of the world insulted a bunch of gutterpunks and streetsnipes, and they were not going to get off easy! There was an immediate verbal response on our side (
socraticlaughtr, what did you say?), scorning the female's elevated opinion of herself, to which the alpha male of the group came to Lead Female's defense. There was much shouting on both sides, David took off his coat to avoid it being torn further, and a peacemaker male on their side came running to try and calm things down. Had he managed to get his friends extradited sooner he may have been more successful, but as it was, Peacemaker kept on coming back to apologize for his friends' behavior (I believe - that was what his posture said, I was standing about 8 feet away and couldn't hear exactly what was being said), which meant that his friends stayed near, and hostilities continued. After a couple minutes, the bulk of the participants/gawkers moved 30 or so feet away, which is where the fight almost began.Later, one guy said that their side threw the first punch, but all I could see from my angle was one of our side, a male wearing purple pants, suddenly spring (to my mind, as though he had a bungee tied around his waist) forward and to the side, all limbs... flailing? Really, I wouldn't have thought it possible for arms, legs, and body to move in conjunction like that. Thankfully, it ended shortly after that, the preps went on their way, and our participants came back.
Later,
socraticlaughtr and I saw Alpha Male pissing in the corner of a parking ramp, while Peacemaker was talking on his cell phone. There was much amusement and scoffing.
