November 2021 Wins

Off topic: it looks like Blogger finally updated its platform to resize images appropriately. It only took, what? 5 years?

I saw an old post of mine talking about wins, and it occurred to me that I don’t talk about that enough. I’d like to make a point of doing a post once a month about it, but… *shrug*

So November wins:

Made a bunch of new friends (a bunch at Luci) at the SEGD conference
Went to the Eastern State Penitentiary’s Halloween Nights
Went to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
Was recognized a lot at IAAPA. I don’t have to work so hard to network anymore
Met my mentor Kile Ozier in person
Ran for the TEA board (and lost, but that’s okay)

Early December wins:

Spoke with Carol at the Smithsonian and got a TON of incredibly helpful feedback.
Won the bid for the Hamilton East Public Library largely (almost entirely) due to me
Impressed my MIA clients and am moving forward on that project
Met Marina Heck, a world famous and LOCAL pole dancer, who I’m planning on taking privates with
Started trapeze classes again with Annabelle. I totally sucked, but you gotta start back somewhere
Took a boxing workshop with my old instructor Donna. It’s been over a year since I’ve done combatives

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Boxing win!🥊

Quick win post: I went to UC today for the first time in 3 months since my second round of shoulder injuries, and during a knife defense activity, I accidentally weaved/ducked under the swipe instead of jumping back. I couldn't believe it: even after 3+ months off of boxing and everything combat related, my first instinct was to duck! Holy crap! It's not what we were working on, but it was just as effective. I was thrilled to know that if someone were to stab at me like that in real life, my instinct is to weave under it like in boxing. Yay, me!

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