Round Up
Since I’ve been insanely busy this week I haven’t made a huge effort to keep up to date with my blogging. The reason I’ve been busy is that I’ve been trying to write my Supervisory Board Meeting report & presentation as well as finishing all those bits of work I said that I’d have done by now!
Board Report
Every six months I have to submit a report, a filled out form and a presentation to my supervisory board that consists of My Supervisor, an academic in the field (who chairs the meeting) and a academic not in the field. Now seeing as this should be my penultimate board meeting, I’m meant to have a lot to show for my two and a bit years work. I have got a lot to show but unfourtunately not a huge amount of results, so I’ve been trying to get some decent results to show at the meeting but my Neural Network is not playing ball - and I’ve been getting cross.
Fencing
Thankfully when I get cross I can go fencing and stab people with swords, which I’m getting better at again now. Tuesday practice was good - three challengers and three victorys although one guy has only been doing fencing for a term so it was a bit of a hollow victory (I don’t believe in not performing to the best of your ability to make people feel better by the way). Wednesday was our last match of the term, against the First Team, overall we lost as we should really, but in Foil I got my five points off of all the first team - albeit with Rossen attempting to take the match into the final two seconds. I didn’t do so well in Epee but by then our Captain had buggered off and somehow that seemed to leave me in charge - I’m still not sure how that was decided.
I have my beautiful foil to thank for some of my performance though as I finally converted my french grip into a pistol grip and it’s soooo much better. I had to cut and thread the tang but it all works fine now. I might have a play with how the blade is set soon, but I’m not sure that it will be as much of an advantage as in Epee.
Other Things
I’ve also been trying to keep upto date with other stuff to like Christmas presents, birthday presents and finding out all those bits of information that people want to know…
Here’s hoping for an easier week next week.
Good Hunting
I get the busy week, but I don’t get to stab people… no fair 
Sounds like you have been busy! Stabbing people sounds fun!!! For some reason people dont like giving me big pointy objects to stab people with
Hope the meeting goes well! I have had meetings with my solicitor this week - in fact waiting for him to call right now which is very frustrating. You know i’m not a patient sort. It seems my prison cell might be ready by next friday lunchtime!!!