My LJ is pretty much all skating and teaching and bitching and perceived quirks of RL. So here's a snippet of what I try to do when not distracted by the rest of the world ( Read more... )

Just back from open skate, where I only did a light workout because I was so fantastically sick yesterday, and no one fully recovers in a day, despite how I feel ( Read more... )

People on eight wheels ( Read more... )

When you're sick, the only thing you really feel like expressing is that you're sick.

Slight joint ache (including behind the eyes), slightly raw throat, slight congestion, and massively woozy feeling.

Albino Moose!

(Added bonus -- the pictures are hosted on a gun and hunting forum ... read the comments after the pictures for extra hilarity . . .)

So I just got back from skating at CCRG scrimmage, and now that I've had a chance to compare the surfaces at the Philly Sportsplex to Putty Hill back to back, I can say that I like our traditional floor waaayyyyyyyyyyy more than the sport-court. I found sport-court to be slower, yet slicker, somehow -- the plasticky surface was tougher to stop on. ( Read more... )

On January 22nd is the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade - and Blog for Choice has asked bloggers to join them in a day of activism for choice. Blog for Choice Day is a chance to raise the profile of reproductive rights issues in the blogosphere and the media, and to let everyone know that a woman's right to choose is nonnegotiable.


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This weekend, as most of you know, plantastic and I ended up in Philly. hannahchan, greyplanet, and Dirty Trixie carpooled up for the Philly-Maulers rollerderby bout, which I reffed, and plantastic joined us after rehearsals, bringing some other actors and catching most of the action. We stayed with Damoni and mammascro, in their cute South Philly ( Read more... )

Johnny Zebra's heading up to Philly to ref the Mobtown Maulers' first away bout ever.

Though once in the bout I will ref indiscriminately, right now I say:

CRACK THOSE LIBERTY BELLES!!

House Democrats are going to save America in 100 hours. Jack Bauer saves America in 24 hours. That means Jack Bauer is basically just some hyper-evolved, super awesome, badass Democrat. This site shows the conclusive proof that Jack Bauer is a huge giant Democrat.

Hee.