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This video has nothing to do with avocado toast, but I just want to make it clear that avocado toast is GOOD. Music: Valesco - Cloud 9: https://youtu.be/nRa-eGzpT6o Jesse Warren - Miles Above You: http://youtu.be/6AHLjpw3O18 Filmed 5/24/17

Mid term season is always 10000x worse than finals. Typically, once finals roll around, whatever project I'm doing is something I've been working on for a while, I have a long break to look forward to, and, in general, I am better prepared to turn in/present whatever I'm supposed to turn in/present. Mid terms, tho . . . I'm a Jabberwock with 3% of my usual amount of patience. No matter how well I tried to manage my time this past week, I still ended up in the architecture building for the whole night finishing my midterm. I haven't pulled an all nighter since last year, and my overall average for all nighters is pretty low for someone in studio. @Carlos, stop eating everything So yah after getting no sleep and running on none calories, I reluctantly went to my lesson on Friday morning. I tried to nap in the car, but I get pretty jittery when I don't sleep, so I'd just knock out for five minutes then jump awake when someone spoke too loud. It ended up b...

Getting to ride three different horses is a great way to finish off the week, even if one of them (*cough* Vick *cough cough*) was far too hype. I was put on LB again for the team lesson, and it was totally better than last time. I did about a lap of hip stretches which opened me up enough to be effective but not quite enough to lengthen my leg all the way. When we went to sit the trot, I was struggling, so I dropped my irons and tried it that way instead with moderate success (didn't sit trot for long). He cantered and jumped exceptionally well. I swapped first onto Vick and then onto Lionel. Vick was forward, and I was handsy, so that didn't go down too well. On the flip side, Lionel was laid back and game for pretty much any fence (which led to him locking onto the wrong fence). He can be added to the list of horses that are far too big for me but still accept cues from my puny legs.

Coach finally switched it up on me yesterday. I rode neither Romeo nor Pixel but instead got put on LB, a barn favorite who I hadn't the chance to ride yet. He's a fairly dainty horse, but he can get going despite his size and apparent age. He also grossly over estimated the size of carrot which he could consume at once, and wow that was an interesting few moments. Of course, I was late getting into the ring, so I didn't have any time to do my hip stretches, and I consequently hated my stirrups for the entire ride. I could probably attribute most of my issues yesterday to not properly warming myself up. LB was easy off my leg, which I appreciated. By the time we started jumping, my whole body was quite out of line (front and right side collapse), plus my leg reverted back to the up/downer days. I looked like a slight wreck, but I have media, so who cares? So, yeah, bad ride yadda yadda the sky is falling yadda yadda all that nonsense.