Besty or anybody, do you know if you can or should iron black-out lining?

DON'T. It's rubberized/plasticized. Let the wrinkles steam out.

DON'T. It's rubberized/plasticized. Let the wrinkles steam out.

What do I do about my seams then?

That's one of the reasons the MM organizations have such strict rules about relationships between instructors and students.

That makes sense. However, we really have no such rules. I wonder how that will play out for us?

The main difference (perhaps only) between the MM and what we're going to do is that our defense techniques are different -- so the instructor/attackers receive the same training, we're just getting the students to ... you know, turn their heads towards the hand when being put in an arm bar, not towards the elbow.

But all the attacks will (necessarily) be by a trained person. It's going to be weird having someone I know pull that crap on me.

I can't wait.

I think I just left 'em alone. They're hidden on the inside of the lining anyway.

turn their heads towards the hand when being put in an arm bar, not towards the elbow.

HAH! I just acted this out at my desk. Am trying to figure out how the defense works if you turn toward the hand...

really wanting to take the krav now so I can learn more fighting skillz!!!

It's going to be weird having someone I know pull that crap on me.

Are they going to be wearing the same kind of suits the muggers use in MM? Because the helmet (which is fully enclosed, you can't see the face of the person wearing it at all) helps hugely in making the psychological distinction between My Instructor and My Attacker clear. Even with the helmet, though, the dynamic would still be way different and more complex if the attacker is your partner.

I just had to send a snarky letter to the editor regarding a review of Bride and Prejudice in a local paper. The reviewer referred to the film as a "welcome rendition of Victorian literature".

Thank you thank you thank you.

Didja tell them Victoria wasn't even born yet when P&P was published?

I just acted this out at my desk.

Heh. Me too.

S-i-l, the one who just had breast cancer a couple of years ago, just had her hysterectomy. The took some lymph nodes, too. The tumors on her ovary are ovarian cancer (not all cancer on ovaries is). I don't know anything else. Her husband was crying too hard to say too much to m-i-l. M-i-l too stoic to say too much to me.

strength to your family Cindy...

Oh, Cindy. Strength and health to the family. Did they say whether it had spread to the lymph nodes?