On Christmas Day I found some old home videos and watched them with my sister. They were wildly embarassing but that's what makes them so fun. On one of the tapes was my Karate test. I remember doing quite well in it (came in 4th out of 20)... or so I thought. All I got to see on video was me spar with another kid who was literally twice as big as me. It was the most pathetic fight I've ever seen. All the other kids were paired up by size but for some reason they thought it would be fair to put us to together. Anyway, I was kicking and punching ferociously... into his arm! That guy tooled me so bad (as much as a kid can). We weren't supposed to hurt each other so it wasn't bad but man, I was a shitty fighter. That wasn't the reason I quit karate but perhaps the decision wasn't such a bad one afterall!

Also, I was watching IRobot the other day and realized how freaking terrified I am of heights. Its pathetic really. I've been thinking of doing something extreme like skydiving to overcome this fear but it is quite bad. There's a scene where the characters are battling on this insanely high panel with no railguards. During this sequence I had tingling running up my hamstrings as if I were up there. This is the feeling I get when placed in uncomfortably high positions. The weird thing is that it's completely self-induced. I create this feeling everytime I picture what it would be like to fall from that height. Once I do that, I screw myself over. If I can just not think about that, then I think I'll be fine. Nevertheless it's something I have to work on.