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Starting Atkins
Craig and I have been talking for a while now about "eating healthy and exercising" (like everyone does...) but not getting around to it. After I finally got impatient and threw out all the junk food...
View ArticleTo Graphic or to Novel?
Seems days two and three of the diet were the worst. I'm still hungry a lot, but not quite as much as I was, and I've found some healthy snacks to occupy myself with. In not-unrelated news, Planter's...
View ArticleNovel Summary - Retribution
Retribution* Twenty-two-year-old Gemma is beautiful, popular, and on the fast track to a parentally approved life. Things couldn't be going better for her, until she wakes up in the hospital and is...
View ArticleMowed Over
I tweeted earlier that I know something has gone wrong on a job when I find myself carrying around a 7-inch rusty nail for protection. Here's what happened to prompt that observation.Craig and I were...
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Cheapskates
Our neighbor Jenn works at the local roller skate rink, and about a month ago I decided to tag along with her and go skating, because I hadn't been roller skating in years and I missed it. Craig came...
View ArticleGood Newses!
Seems I’m back into the habit of neglecting my blog. Not exactly my goal, but as I’ve said before, better the blog suffer than the comic. There are two big pieces of news that have not been posted as...
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How I Swapped My Wheels
As I mentioned two entries back, I hurt my knee skating a couple of months ago. It was a simple fall, but had more of an effect than I expected, so I stopped skating for a while. At first I was just...
View ArticleNew Wheels = Good
Here's a short analysis of the wheels, because I don't have the experience to write a long, intricate one: they roll good!I'm kidding. I can do a little better than that, both technically and...
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ALCO! Fan Art
I discovered a new comic night before last to add to my regular reading list: Ada Lee Comes On! It's about a badass girl who has apparently sold her soul to the devil - literally. I won't tell you any...
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Discovering Derby
I don't understand how I've failed to explain anything further about the derby league that I mentioned exactly once in a previous post. That was a severe oversight.I can't remember how I learned of...
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The Big Apple Beatdown
I'm sitting here in the hotel room with Craig, Miranda, and Sam the morning after the MRDA championships. My head is splitting, but I really dont care - yesterday was AMAZING. There were seven bouts...
View ArticleLevel Ones
The three weeks following Fresh Meat night were devoted to learning the skills we needed to be considered "competent" on our skates (as in, not a danger to ourselves and everyone around us). The last...
View ArticleFirst Scrimmage
Four of us took our level two test on the night of my last post, and at least three of us passed. The fourth was going to retake when she was feeling less injured after a fall, but I haven't seen her...
View ArticleArticle 10
I've been in six scrimmages now since I passed my level 2, and it's still very difficult but slowly getting better. Some nights I have more trouble with my physical game, and other nights it's the...
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I Got Skool'd
I finally started going back to Wednesday nights a couple of weeks ago, and I wish I'd done it earlier - it has helped SO much with my hitting. Going back to basic technique without the distraction of...
View ArticleHeart
Last night was a collection of good and bad. I joined the yellow stripes in their test, since I was the only blue stripe, and I took turns with them and did different skills. I passed on the tomahawk...
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New Skates
Four weeks ago today, I ordered my new skates from Bruised Boutique. I'd gone there back in January to try on the boots I was interested in, and after trying Riedell 126s (ouch! Awful!), 265s (VERY...
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No Really, I Swear I Still Exist
I just drew and posted my first PPC page in over three months. Time to explain where I've been all that time!I swore when I started derby that I wouldn't let it take over my life to the point of...
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Skates Fail
You know those new skates that I was so excited to have my hands on back in March? Well, I'm not so excited anymore.At first they were painful, but I was expecting that, since the boots are leather and...
View ArticleMy Head Hurts
For the last three-ish weeks, I've been having headaches that have been getting progressively worse. I don't know exactly when they started, because headaches are not uncommon for me, so at first I...
View ArticleHow I Found Derby
The head ref of a local derby league, who is a professor by day, is teaching a class on derby culture and gender to students learning English as a second language. She asked whoever would like to...
View ArticleFirst Derbyversary
One year ago on September 7th, I laced up my skates and stepped onto the sport court at the Bunker for the first time on wheels. Even though I could skate, I stumbled and met the floor as I learned...
View ArticleCraig's First Skating Injury
Now that I've alarmed everyone by announcing the last comic didn't go up because of a hospital visit, it's time to explain what happened.This entry ended up a bit longer than I planned. There's a TL;DR...
View ArticleReturn of the Skipper
Hey railbirds! It's good to see you again.Where have I been for the last couple of years, and what's going on now?The short version is, I let Life get in the way of drawing. I never intended to quit...
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