I'm still worried about my knees... so I'll probably see a doctor next week.  For now, though, I can't skip any more karate classes.  Skipping just kills me.

Today, class was really low key.  Maybe I'm just self-centered, but I think that Sensei deliberately made it so, because of my knees.  We didn't even do a normal warm-up today... we just started out with sanchin, and worked on it for the whole class.  For those who don't know, sanchin is a slow-moving kata that uses focused breathing and dynamic tension.  There are only four steps in the whole thing, and they're all sliding steps.  Your knees basically stay in the same position the entire time, besides sinking down and rising about an inch in one part.

I sometimes wonder if my obsession with Sensei is unhealthy.  Today, during class, he counted to 11 in Japanese, and I actually thought to myself, "Wow, I've never heard Sensei count to 11 before... Cool..."  And, I do wonder fairly often whether he thinks I'm cute...

You know, it's a really horrible idea to write this here... so, I'm going to stop now.  :/