May
30
Why is this so funny, I have no idea.
(via monstrositysuperstar)
Dusktreader eats.
I do roller derby. I eat food.
May
23
“1Q84,” by Haruki Murakami
This tumblr featuring people reading on the subway makes me want to read more books. I kind of took a break from reading anything serious after I graduated (3 years ago) because I was tired of everything: reading, analyzing, introspection. I also moved across the country and that made me really resent books as objects, because as objects they take up a lot of space and are expensive to ship. But I have a device that I can read on now. I never really got back into the habit of reading books. I read, it’s just that I mostly read articles online, and blog posts and social media status updates, all of which can be meaningful and engaging and interesting, of course, but books are this whole other world. And I miss it, and if I just tried a little harder, I could get off the internet before I got too tired to read more than a few pages.
So, summer of reading! It’s funny how I still think I’ll have more time to read during the summer, even though I work all year around and no longer have the break from school that students get. I do have a few weeks off work coming up though, and I’ll probably have more time on my hands in general starting soon. I mean sort of. I mean, derby is going to take up almost all of my time, and also there’s knitting, but I can’t derby and knit all the time. Reading, outside. Reading, in crowded pubs. Reading, at the park. Reading.
May
15
Maybe one day I’ll skate like one :)
I know a lot of girls in my league who do the same. Me, I don’t drive, but I am better at getting through crowds now.
(via thewhip)
May
14
Reblog if talking to strangers on the internet has helped you meet awesome people who add positively to your life.
Reblog if talking to strangers on the internet has helped you meet awesome people who add positively to your life.
(via monstrositysuperstar)
May
9
Dead Ringers vs. Las Bandidas Locas, HRDA’s first bout of the season. Come watch me skate around in a circle and hip-check people!
Apr
30
I skate my first real roller derby bout in less than 2 weeks! (I’ve skated in 20 minute mini-bouts before, and I’ve refereed a full-length bout, but this will be my first one as a player.)
Here are my goals:
- Do a lot of screaming beforehand to get in the right headspace.
- Not lose my head in the first jam. The first time out, it’s so easy to forget what you’re supposed to be doing and just skate around in a circle, and then get confused when someone tries to knock you down. Not me, not this time. I will focus. I will remember my job. I will deliver the first hit. I mean, obviously I want to do those things for the entire game, but I am going to concentrate on setting the tone during my first jam out there.
- Have fun.
If I could do those things, I would be pretty happy, but if I could also sneak in some of the things I’ve been working on at practice, that would be even better:
- Getting low before I hit. So much more power.
- Hockey stops for stopping quickly. I am so excited to have discovered the hockey stop, since I still can’t do transitions at speed, and my other favorite stop is the plough stop, which takes forever. (Still <3 you though, plough stop!) I have informed my team that the hockey stop is my stop and nobody else can have it.* Hockey stops to stop from going out of bounds! Hockey stops to keep the other team from speeding us up from behind our wall! Hockey stops to force another player to pull a back-blocking penalty!
- 1-2 hits. One hit to destabilize, one hit to knock ‘em down/out**.
- Shimmy-shaking out of leans. For some reason I have it in my head that when someone leans on me, I should lean right back into them. It’s good sometimes, because they usually can’t move me, but what happens is we get in a deadlock and I completely forget what I’m actually supposed to be doing, especially if I’m supposed to be holding my place in a wall or if I’m the first line of defence against the jammer. No. If someone leans on me, I’ll shake them off and keep my place.
[Insert battle cry here.]
*Just kidding, of course that’s not how the economy of skills works.
**Out of bounds, not out of consciousness.
I think that was one of my favourite Mad Men episodes ever. Ever ever.
Aw man! Keith, get the eff home so we can watch it.
Wollstonecraft: Kid's book project on Kickstarter
Here’s why I love Kickstarter. The project above is for a fictionalized book about Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace as kids who open up their own detective agency (they name it after Mary Shelley’s mom, Mary Wollstonecraft). From the project description:
This is a pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief. Ada and Mary encounter real historical characters, such as Percy Shelley, Charles Babbage, Michael Faraday, and Charles Dickens – people whom the girls actually knew. If Jane Austen wrote about zeppelins and brass goggles, this would be the book.
I saw that and I thought: I want that book to exist. I don’t have children in my life, but I would’ve read the heck out of that book when I was a kid, and I want it in the world. So I put my pledge in to become a backer for the project, even though it was already funded by the time I found out about it. Because I have feelings about it. And apparently a few thousand other people have feelings about it too, because the project is 2000% funded at over $80,000, and it’s now 3 books plus a teacher’s guide.
The warm fuzzies, I has them.
Unfuck Your Habitat: Let's talk about habits for a minute
I am going to do all of these for the next week and a half (except maybe wiping bathroom surfaces, that seems like a once a week kind of deal). Plus some 20/10s every night until all my clutter is dealt with. I started yesterday and I already feel better. Clean apartment, coming right up.
SO MANY PEOPLE have done serious major unfucking lately, and IT’S AWESOME. I couldn’t be prouder. But once that initial high wears off, you need to focus on maintenance, or you’re going to end up right back where you started. I have a short list of things that, if you can make them habits, will…
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