A Very Merry Shonichi.

Yeah, it's six in the morning. Just finished watching a post-sumo sunrise. What do I do? Blog.

Spring break is off to a wonderful start after a not entirely stressful midterms week. After monday, I had only one midterm left, so I became completely worthless for the rest of the week since the Japanese midterm didn't have me super stressed out (to say the least). It feels great to waste some time, and I'm getting remarkably good at it.

I filled quite a few of those empty hours with poker, at which I've been doing really well as of late. Sandhya and I rocked the Wilson casino night and scored a Lost in Translation dvd, and the following weekend I won two big tournaments in a row. Fun wow.

However, I do have something to offer in compensation for my being a complete degenerate. I started training for a 5K. I've never done one before, and I've never been a very solid runner, but I've been running with my roommate a little, and the 5K seems very doable. So excited. I've never done something so physical before.

At any rate, enough with all that lame crap.

It's Haru Basho!

So I implemented my plot to make chanko (sumo stew) for the other members of BoI, being that I'm a shindeshi, and that's what shindeshi do. Definitely didn't do a stellar job, but the stuff was edible, and I think that if I did it again I could do much better. In any case, it worked perfectly. Showed up fashionably late, had them all wondering where the hell I was, and then burst onto the scene with friggin' chanko. I was instantly promised a special prize. I'm hoping for fighting spirit.

To top off a wonderful evening, I beat Kratville in my first bout. It was a hardcore trash talk battle to the very end, when it all came down to a single bout. Now, no matter how I do for the rest of the basho, he'll never live that one down. All in all, a very productive Shonichi...and that not having cracked a book.

Spring break is good.