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I Learned Stage Combat (And It Was Amazing But The Comedown Sucks)

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I don't usually put my videos up on here, mostly because I figure if you want to see them you can go to my YouTube channel  and subscribe. (SO CLOSE TO 10,000 YOU GUYS). But I did have a lot of fun with this one, and also I HAVE THOUGHTS that didn't quite resolve themselves into the kind of coherent sentences that made it into the video, so let's talk about stage combat. Or actually, let's talk about the comedown. Because I spent almost an entire week eating, sleeping, and breathing all this new stuff. And then I did my exam, went home and...well, yay, family! Cake! All my muscles hurt much less after a couple of days of not being constantly made to do All The Things! But two weeks later, there I was trotting along to a Shakespeare Festival fight workshop to go through all the basics of unarmed again with a bunch of random strangers, because wow, I missed it like burning. Leading said workshop was my instructor Duncan , but also helping out was Meg, who had