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1. Dartmouth College, Hanover NH \neq Dartmouth MA
Luckily we didn't actually need that sabre fencer today, since she didn't show up until just before the foil finished (meaning, a good long time after all of our sabre fencers were done fencing, since they all started at almost the same time).

2. Miriam needs to relax more while fencing. Including her back arm and shoulder. Especially her back arm and shoulder.

3. It's easier to make touches from a six-enguarde than a four-enguarde.

4. Staying for hours and hours waiting for one's teammates to finish fencing in the finals is nearly as tiring as the fencing part of the day. (But yay, Tallclaire! She wanted so badly to be in the top eight at big one, and wound up in the top 4or5 today.)

5. When Miriam has had only six hours of sleep, has been up for 12 hours already, spent a large number of those hours fencing, and the day isn't anywhere close to over, she does not do well on the interacting with other people sorts of stuff. Or at least has very little energy left over for said interactions.

6. Hatfield is right: Scott is just as bad at dealing with other people as the rest of us, but he's better at hiding it.

7. Alonetime is a very good thing. Especially on fencing meet days. Also, sitting in a van for an hour alternating between pretending to sleep and staring out the window at the wet road rushing past is a good cure for oversocialization (hence the having energy/interest in writing this post).

8. Yes, adding too much heavy cream to the vanilla fudge does mean that it doesn't set up properly (although it's close enough that I still have hope that freezing or stirring or reheating and letting it cool again might fix it).

9. A pound of fudge is just as heavy as a pound of lead.

Yes, we did know several of these things already. Or I hope we did. But most of them are good things to re-learn.