The Strange World of Axel Fendersson

Well, tonight was my last night at Jive+ as a beginner. After two months I have been advised that next week I should try the intermediate class. Which is good. As of last week, I have done all of the moves that Jive+ classify as being for beginners (other places have slightly different sets of beginner moves), although two of them I actually don’t much like (they’re easy to do, but nearly impossible to make look anything but awful), and another I still find awkward and don’t think I’ve ever successfully managed to do in freestyle. Not sure how big a step up this will be. I think the main challenge will be in the fact that I’ll only be going over each move once, without getting to revise and refine it in the review session. Still, nice to have confirmation that I’m making good progress.

Meanwhile, back in the realm of things that actually matter, very little progress continues to be made. No luck on the job front: I didn’t get the job I interviewed for the other week and haven’t found anything else to apply for for a while. Although I haven’t looked since last week, so perhaps something will come up next time I do a search.

And I failed my driving test on Monday. I’d been driving for about two minutes when I turned off a roundabout and forgot to cancel the indicator. Trouble was that it was raining so hard that I could hardly hear the clicking over the sound of the rain, and so I made it past a left turning and a zebra crossing before the examiner pointed it out. I then went on to complete the rest of the test with only six minor faults, but that was all for nothing since by then I had already failed.

Returning to hobbies and interests, I continue to make painfully slow progress on my Epic Chaos army. I have only a handful of units left to paint, yet somehow I only very occasionally get around to actually getting to any of them. Still, hopefully it won’t be long now before they’re all done and the army will be completely finished.