Hooray for Oberlin! I'm so glad I made it to the reunion. I think I'd mostly let my Oberlin days and friends and education fade into distant memory, so it's great to have that part of my life brought to the fore again. Especially now that time and distance let me appreciate my Obie days even more. I don't know how long it will last (these things ( Read more... )

Forgot to mention that we're going to Oberlin this weekend. Hoping to see some old friends!

Out of commission with the Flu for almost a week now. It's getting slowly better but the sore throat and cough show no signs of ever going away entirely ( Read more... )

Progress - slow but steady. A second round of assessments completed, and although I show 800% improvement over the first time, they raised the bar slightly and I fell under it again. There are three of us slow-and-steady level 0 newbies, the dedicated and hardworking but lacking talent and physical fitness. We'll get there. My endurance and ( Read more... )

I did an entire drill last night with (mostly) solid crossovers all the way around. Woo! Of course it was after I'd loosened up a bunch and while nobody was watching, but still. I just have to duplicate that in front of other people and I might finally move from level 0 to level 1.

Allow me to officially introduce myself.

My name is Ruth of All Evil. I'm a rookie with the Maine Roller Derby.

See, it's official:


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Perfoming on David Letterman:

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I've got a wheel-shaped bruise on my ass. Woo!

Derby practice kicked my ass. I knew I'm not in such great shape but whew... This is going to be hard work. So many skills to learn in a short time - at this point my main goal is to pass "Level 1 Assessments" at the end of the month so I'm allowed to hit people on skates (woo!). I waffle back and forth between HELL YES I CAN TOTALLY DO THIS and Oh ( Read more... )

I voted (technically, caucused) for Hillary Clinton today, and I Am Not Ashamed.

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The caucus sort of sucked. I guess they got something like three times as many people as they were expecting? The complete disorganization of the whole mess was... impressive. Colin and I waited almost an hour (IN A SNOWSTORM) just to get in the door. And we were ( Read more... )