It is 5:45am. Her alarm goes off.
MR. QUEENIE
(groaning)
When you said you'd have to leave the house at 6:30...I thought
you meant PM.
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I can't make myself get up before 8am on weekdays to get to work on time, but get up early to do roller derby stuff? NO PROBLEMO THERE JUST GIVE ME COFFEE AND I'M ON MY WAY.(Unless it's Sunday morning off-skates workout, because, well, fuck that.)
One of the refs in our league is big into JRDA, and he's been trying to recruit me to his cause. So we went to a league about an hour away that has a team, and reffed one of their scrimmages.
OMG WHY DIDN'T THEY HAVE JUNIOR ROLLER DERBY WHEN I WAS 10-17 MY LIFE WOULD BE SO DIFFERENT YOU GUYS. I stopped skating seriously when I was about 11 (we moved into a house with a carpeted basement, so I lost my venue) but if I'd been able to keep it up...
Anyway. Reffing the juniors was a lot of fun - some of those kids have mooooooves - juking through the pack like it's nothing. One little girl, when she went up to jam, just froze. She kinda stood there until the pivot was like "Give me the helmet cover!" It was sooooo cute.
So I reffed, OPR, yeah. Made a few calls, mostly cuts. I called one blocking out of bounds (blocker was facing non-derby direction, jammer was pushing against her, jammer pushed blocker out of bounds and the blocker kept blocking) but I completely forgot the hand signal and did a weird sort of jazz hands thing. I feel like if I call the big things, that's fine - I can work my way down to the more particular things as I get experience.
Anyway, it's something I definitely want to do again. It's the last Saturday of every month, though, and next month is Thanksgiving weekend and the month after that is Christmas weekend, so who knows when I'll get the chance.
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Saturday night was NSOing. They had more volunteers than spots, though, so I shadowed the Penalty Box Manager (who's from our league and is an awesome guy) and ended up taking over the timing part when one of the box timers got overwhelmed. (I got a bit overwhelmed myself when I had a "two people in the box and as soon as one of them stood a third person came in" situation, but no one died so I like to think it worked out okay.)
Won't be able to go to tonight's ref practice because my Dad and stepmom are coming into town to celebrate my birthday (it was yesterday) and today was the only good day. I'm kinda bummed I'm missing practice, but whatcha gonna do.
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