wrapups and whatnot

• Tournament
• Tournament
• Home Game
• Away Game
• Tournament
• Away game (with a Friday night game in Buffalo)
• Tournament
• Nothing, but there's a Friday night game in Buffalo I could go to
• Kid's birthday weekend (he's going to be SEVENTEEN WTF)
• Tournament
• Tournament
• Away game
• Men's game
• Away game
• Home game

So Georgia W. Tush was SO MUCH FUN.  Refereeing roller derby at that high a level is such a treat. It makes you want to up your game.

Plus, poutine.

(ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: called a penalty on an Olympic athlete.)

Got back from ECDX just about twelve hours ago.  It was high points (everyone on my ref crew seemed to think I did really well HRing; I got to OPR Philly/Paris and Philly/Madison which was phenomenal) and low points (JRing a game at 10pm is not ideal; I got waaaaay into my head during one game and had to call an OTO to extract myself) and I really need to do more junior derby (not as an OPR though.  Those kids are faaaaast)

Anyway.  This upcoming weekend is a doubleheader in Connecticut, where my sister is, so she's going to the game, so that'll be fun.

Part II of All Teh Derby All Teh Time, I guess

• Tournament
• Tournament
• Home Game
• Away Game
• Tournament
• Away game (with a Friday night game in Buffalo)
• Tournament
• Nothing, but there's a Friday night game in Buffalo I could go to
• Kid's birthday weekend (he's going to be SEVENTEEN WTF)
• Tournament
• Tournament
• Away game
• Men's game
• Away game
• Home game

I need to make myself new nameplates, and permanently affix them to my jerseys.  The ones I have right now are kinda ratty looking and never quite worked by Velcroing them to the shirt.  

I also need to find my outdoor wheels (they're somewhere in the house) and put them on my old skates, and do some outdoor skating.  It's beautiful weather out now and I need to get extra exercise.

ever spinning towards freedom or something

• Tournament
• Tournament
• Home Game
• Away Game
• Tournament
• Away game (with a Friday night game in Buffalo)
• Tournament
• Nothing, but there's a Friday night game in Buffalo I could go to
• Kid's birthday weekend (he's going to be SEVENTEEN WTF)
• Tournament
• Tournament
• Away game
• Men's game
• Away game
• Home game

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I don't think I ever mentioned (mostly because there was a Cone of Silence that we were never really told was lifted), but the next tournament I'm doing is La Classique Georgia W. Tush, which just, y'know, features TEXAS WHO IS RANKED #6 AND RAINY CITY WHO IS RANKED #8 AND JACKSONVILLE WHO IS RANKED #9 AND MONTREAL WHO IS RANKED #11

noooooooooo pressure there, none at all

(this was another one of those "eh, I'll apply, even though I have a snowball's chance in hell of getting in" tournaments)

At the last tournament I was at (Royal Brawl), I happened to be able to work with a few of the referees who are on my crew for GWT, and our general attitude towards it was absolute HOLY SHIT THIS IS WAY ABOVE MY PAY GRADE

anyway

I got my assignments for ECDX as well - I get to HR a game!  Yay!  This'll be interesting, because the two games I have HRed before were part of a doubleheader, so I kinda let the sanctioned game HR run the captains meeting and the crew meeting and was just like "yeah, what they said" but this time it'll be ALL ON ME

anyway