18
Jan
2010
Who needs sleep?
When the weather was nice out and the sun rose before 7am, I used to go to bed at 10 and wake up before 6 to go out on my bike or meet Cec for a run… Alas, the weather lately sucks and it’s so bloody dark out in the morning, I like nothing better than to wake up at 6 and thn proceed to snuggle up in the warmth of my king-size bed and lay there till the very last possible moment for me to get to work on time.
Anyway I’m just going to put it out there and blame it on the fact that as of late my activities have shifted from AM to PM activities as we have started reffing the Fresh Meat scrimmages during the week. (FYI Fresh Meat are derby girls who are going through the tryout process in order to get drafted onto a team next month). This past Wednesday we reffed our first scrimmage and I’m happy to report that it wasn’t nearly as big of a gong-show as I had expected. During bouts there are 5 on-skate refs in the center of the track and 2 along the outside then you add in penalty trackers, time keepers, point keepers etc. Now, have all of the on-skate refs moving with the speed of the pack and calling penalties to the players and then into the trackers… you can imagine why I expected our first attempt of this to be a bit of a gong-show.
To continue the derby theme, Megan and I headed down to Bremerton for a road-trip to stand in as groupies for the TCRG All-Stars… (they won 116 – 113) and we sat in the stands pretending that we knew more than the refs in the bout and pointed out everything they did wrong… that being said, I’m sure had I actually been participating int eh reffing duties I would have been eating my own words.
On that note, I’ve averaged 4 hours of sleep per night this weekend so I’m going to attempt to be a normal human being and go to bed.
