School is in session. I'm busy in my fourth grade classroom, and my wife is taking the first two clinical classes for her nursing certification. My attendance at the dojo has been less than stellar.

Speaking of, my entire body hurst from yesterdays classes. One hour of open hand, followed by an hour of weapons. Carlos, who is ready to take his shodan test, taught weapons, and only two of us stayed. We worked three bokken techniques followed by their respective open hand techniques. That was intense enough since the final technique involved a "backwards" choke, meaning, uke is bent backwards with his face is in nage's armpit, and facing upwards with his chest open to anything nage wants to do. In our case, nage was supposed to bend uke's elbow backwards over his knee.

Again, my body is sore, but I have until Tuesday to recover. By then I'll be itching to get back to the dojo and go through it all again.

School has beat the snot out of me. My class is difficult, to say the least. Having a student teacher has helped, but I'm still completely worn out by the time I get home. The only reason I didn't go to the dojo on Thursday is because I had to drive Lu back and forth to her class, which coincided with class.

This week should be better.