"Your fingers would recall their own strength better if they grasped your sword."

The nice thing about Sting, as compared to larger weapons, is that I can (albeit carefully) swing it around in my room and not hit anything unless I try. I let some of my energy bleed off by taking it up, swinging it through a few clumsy slices and stabs. I had an insane urge to sharpen it, to use it to destroy rather than merely exercise. More in the long term, in a more stable frame of mind, I want to learn to swing it more expertly, not look like a wannabe with a sword but at least like I could fight with it. Actual fighting, no - that sword cost me too much to chip and dent it in even controlled parries and stabs against a similarly armed opponent - but some martial meditations I could go through. Or wantonly destroy aluminum cans when I'm really angry.

That sword is coming back to school with me, yes indeed.

Add to to-do over break:

-Rig Sting's plaque to hang from my bed in the dorm
-Find, make, or scavange something to use as a scabbard
-Get something better than that wax paper to transport it in

I am going to try to sleep now. It is not likely that I will have much success. Rotated schedule, anyone?

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My vacation is complete

It's snowing!

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I took your advice and looked up the California legalities concerning knives and swords. It seems that, if Sting falls under the category of dirk or dagger ("knife or other instrument with or without a handguard that is capable of ready use as a stabbing weapon that may inflict great bodily injury or death") then I may own it, and in fact carry it openly as long as it's not concealed. ("Knives carried in sheaths which are worn openly suspended from the waist of the wearer are not concealed.") So, legalities won't stop me - unless someone points me to a different L.A. County or Claremont statute that says otherwise.

Thanks.

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