dude, sweet

[dragonlady7]

Taken from the US Fencing Association website:

HISTORY BEING MADE: At the Olympic Games, both Sada Jacobson and Mariel Zagunis have made the final 4, which assures the USA of at least 1 medal!

This will be the first Olympic fencing medal ever won by an American woman!

The semi-final bouts are scheduled to begin at 11:30 EDT.

Dude! Sweet!!!!

A couple things for background:
1) Those two are sabreuses. Sabre was my weapon of choice when I fenced. It's awesome, fast-paced, terrifying, and brutal. :)

2) Women's sabre was only made an Olympic sport after Sydney. It has never been in the Olympics before, while men's foil has been in the Olympics since the very first modern one. This event is a big breakthrough for women's sports.
(It has been suggested that the very reason the international fencing federation (FIE) did not fight for women's sabre is that the US is so strong in it, and there is a lot of anti-American sentiment and petty politicking there. I won't really get into it, but it has been noted that the women's foil team was denied the bronze in Sydney on a very, very questionable call in favor of the Germans. It would have (obviously) been a tremendous upset if they had won. So to a lot of people, the very thought of the US winning a medal in Olympic fencing is massively huge.)

I don't know if it will be televised. Bravo is going to be showing some fencing at 5 pm EDT today, but I don't know if that's the fencing it will show. It would totally RULE if it were. That's HUGE.

So, I'm psyched about that.
personal news follows:

I'm also really psyched about moving. I want a desk where I can set up my computer and don't have to sit on the floor. Among other things.

Also, I've never really had a house of my own, so this is a big deal for me. The house in Rochester, I had to share with various people, so I never decorated it. This house, I plan on really moving into. I have no idea how long we'll be there, but I intend to really truly live there the whole time.

I wish I could go measure it so I could spend this weekend using OmniGraffle (it's a chart and layout kinda program, very cool, Mac only) to arrange all the furniture in the optimal configuration... but I think it would be kind of inconvenient to the poor people trying to move out, so I won't. I might ask Dave if he'd ask them though-- mostly I really want to know whether a table my mom has at home and isn't using would fit into the breakfast nook, so that I could collect it while we're there this weekend.
But anyway. I doubt I'll get to do that. I don't really want to think about anything else. I spent several hours yesterday planning what furniture to move first. I went and looked in the garage at what was where, I considered how much would fit into the van, etc. etc. etc... I just want to DO it already.
Sigh.

Cosmo the fish has kept me quite cheerful, however. He is my auxiliary boyfriend. I painted my nails blue for the wedding to match my dress, and now he sees them and thinks they're another fish. I can tease him with my thumbnail and he'll flare at it, thinking it's a male; if I pull my hand away a little and flicker the backs of my fingers at him, he thinks it's a female, and he puffs himself up and circles the bowl as imposingly as he can manage. Then he begins blowing bubbles to court me.
It's really terribly cute. I am highly amused by him. Between him and the Olympics, I am almost completely diverted from mooning over the house.

...
Doesn't mean I haven't planned out to the last little item what will be in the first eight car trips to the house when we move... It has been a long, long goddamn summer.

Comments

[crakor.livejournal.com]

This is going to be fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I know!!!

Zagunis has just beaten Romania's GHEORGHITOAIA and thus is advancing to the gold medal match vs. TAN (who just defeated Jacobson 15-12).

Jacobson will be fighting for bronze with the abovementioned Romanian whose name I am helpless to do other than simply paste from the NBC olympic site (http://www.nbcolympics.com/fencing/).

Funny-- Zagunis only got in as a sort of afterthought, when the Nigerians declined to send a fencer and so a slot opened up.

But. The worst the US can do now is a silver; the best a gold AND a bronze. This is ENORMOUS.

[crakor.livejournal.com]

Fucking awesome :-) :-)