Where's the derby?
Whoa what a letdown. Derby season intensity: 9. Two bouts in a row ups intensity: 10. All of a sudden...derby is over intensity: 0.
What a weird week so far.
Sucktastic championship bout on Saturday night in which we got our asses phenomenally kicked. It was kind of a comedy of errors, jammer in the box, make up the points, get another jammer in the box, eventually stop being able to make up the points, lose by 20. It's kind of draining, and it was super depressing organizing the stats last night. Too depressing to face posting the summaries to MySpace, and then today I got too busy so I still haven't.
We tried the after party but basically felt it sucked, so we went home, got drunk, and had sex. Got to bed probably much earlier than if we had actually partied, which was nice as Hit Man got up at 6:30 to drive to Canada for his fishing trip, and I got up at 7:30 to take care of shit and be able to pick my mom up by 10. She was, of course, 20 minutes late getting ready, which kind of snowballed and we left the mall probably 20 minutes later than we should have and couldn't get on 35W anywhere. All the ramps are under construction!
Eventually we did make it and I got to the Target Center just in time to get my skates on and join the scrimmage. We skated in the street during the MN Lynx's season opening block party and it was a lot of fun, way more fun than sucktastic Saturday! It was great, but we didn't stick around for the game - more things to get done with Mom.
So Saturday and Sunday were busy, then on Monday all of a sudden my life is EMPTY. There is no derby practice and my boyfriend is out of town. It's not like I'd see him much on a Monday anyway, but I miss him because I COULD see him if I wanted, only I can't, because Canada stole him.
At least there is derby tomorrow! One hour of interleague practice followed by a hopefully no-more-than two hour meeting. Work starts summer hours this week; I don't generally do the summer hours because I just don't feel the benefit, but I do half-participate this week (no way am I putting in four ten-hour days, but I will do enough that I should be able to work no more than four hours on Friday) and will get some good skating in at the Roseville Oval on Friday.
And the Oval finally published June's schedule, so now I know when it's open late enough for me to hit it after work - so I'll probably be skating there on Mondays and Wednesdays, when I don't have a practice. On the weekends I can hit the trails up at Jay's - and maybe sometimes during the week, do the 6.5 mile circuit we did for the MS Walk but on WHEELS. Everybody tells me my body needs a break but in college I rollerbladed year round; if I'm not doing actual derby, hitting and all that, why can't I skate all summer? At the Oval I do mostly speed/endurance drills, and this summer I'll do some strength stuff too (four corners. I would have been too embarassed before but now, I'll just throw on a derby t-shirt and feel like I am awesome so why not!).
And derby isn't 100% over any way; Cincinnati bout is June 7. Then it really is kind of over for a long time - next bout won't be until late in August. RollerCon will break that up at the end of July, and we still have events, and hopefully some open scrimmaging.
We have so many events that I almost don't have time for a visit home until August or even September. I had tentatively marked down a weekend in July, 11-13, but we are scrimmaging at Bastille Days that weekend! It's French, I have to go. The next weekend Charm City is playing the Dairyland Dolls in Madison and I had wanted to go check that out but I guess making it up to my sister for skipping her graduation should take precedence. And at least a trip to VA is free, driving myself (though hopefully not alone, I am not the only Charm City fan I know!) to Madison is not.
ANY WAY. Not sleeping enough this week, I am going to try to get things wrapped up and have my lights out by nine. Wow.
What a weird week so far.
Sucktastic championship bout on Saturday night in which we got our asses phenomenally kicked. It was kind of a comedy of errors, jammer in the box, make up the points, get another jammer in the box, eventually stop being able to make up the points, lose by 20. It's kind of draining, and it was super depressing organizing the stats last night. Too depressing to face posting the summaries to MySpace, and then today I got too busy so I still haven't.
We tried the after party but basically felt it sucked, so we went home, got drunk, and had sex. Got to bed probably much earlier than if we had actually partied, which was nice as Hit Man got up at 6:30 to drive to Canada for his fishing trip, and I got up at 7:30 to take care of shit and be able to pick my mom up by 10. She was, of course, 20 minutes late getting ready, which kind of snowballed and we left the mall probably 20 minutes later than we should have and couldn't get on 35W anywhere. All the ramps are under construction!
Eventually we did make it and I got to the Target Center just in time to get my skates on and join the scrimmage. We skated in the street during the MN Lynx's season opening block party and it was a lot of fun, way more fun than sucktastic Saturday! It was great, but we didn't stick around for the game - more things to get done with Mom.
So Saturday and Sunday were busy, then on Monday all of a sudden my life is EMPTY. There is no derby practice and my boyfriend is out of town. It's not like I'd see him much on a Monday anyway, but I miss him because I COULD see him if I wanted, only I can't, because Canada stole him.
At least there is derby tomorrow! One hour of interleague practice followed by a hopefully no-more-than two hour meeting. Work starts summer hours this week; I don't generally do the summer hours because I just don't feel the benefit, but I do half-participate this week (no way am I putting in four ten-hour days, but I will do enough that I should be able to work no more than four hours on Friday) and will get some good skating in at the Roseville Oval on Friday.
And the Oval finally published June's schedule, so now I know when it's open late enough for me to hit it after work - so I'll probably be skating there on Mondays and Wednesdays, when I don't have a practice. On the weekends I can hit the trails up at Jay's - and maybe sometimes during the week, do the 6.5 mile circuit we did for the MS Walk but on WHEELS. Everybody tells me my body needs a break but in college I rollerbladed year round; if I'm not doing actual derby, hitting and all that, why can't I skate all summer? At the Oval I do mostly speed/endurance drills, and this summer I'll do some strength stuff too (four corners. I would have been too embarassed before but now, I'll just throw on a derby t-shirt and feel like I am awesome so why not!).
And derby isn't 100% over any way; Cincinnati bout is June 7. Then it really is kind of over for a long time - next bout won't be until late in August. RollerCon will break that up at the end of July, and we still have events, and hopefully some open scrimmaging.
We have so many events that I almost don't have time for a visit home until August or even September. I had tentatively marked down a weekend in July, 11-13, but we are scrimmaging at Bastille Days that weekend! It's French, I have to go. The next weekend Charm City is playing the Dairyland Dolls in Madison and I had wanted to go check that out but I guess making it up to my sister for skipping her graduation should take precedence. And at least a trip to VA is free, driving myself (though hopefully not alone, I am not the only Charm City fan I know!) to Madison is not.
ANY WAY. Not sleeping enough this week, I am going to try to get things wrapped up and have my lights out by nine. Wow.
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