ZOMG! I have a start date!
Sept. 29th my lads and lasses. That is when I start actual Derby practice. I have to make 7 practices a month, and I have to make every Monday practice. They recommend starting out doing 3 practices a week, but you can move to 2 a week once you get the hang of things. It's 3 hours of practice, and I have no doubt that it will be hard, exhausting, and painful, and I have never been so excited in my life.
They said that you are a Rollergirl the moment you join, and in three months of making all my practices I get my name. (Which will be Nora Snarls, friends and neighbors) They say it's essentially, at least, a one year commitment.
Which is good, because then I won't feel like I need to hurry to get better, I can just go at my own pace.
Did I mention how excited I am?
I've got a month more of my own mini practices, so hopefully I'll be a little stronger, and I won't get winded as easily by the time September 29th comes around. WOO!
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PS- I never did get the balls to resign. I took a month leave so that I didn't have to pay the almost $300 dollars per week in babysitting just to go to practice while Josh traveled all summer. He'll still be traveling lots through October, including a longass trip to London that I'm steamed I'm not going on too, but it's a total necessity at this point. My sanity is totally wrapped up in my skates. I return to practices again on Monday!
Keep posting here. I will be dying to hear about your adventures. I'm going to revive my vox blog just for derby. My boys will get a kick out of my beatings / rantings someday, I'm sure.