The problem with taking a break from derby, is it’s always the times that you are forced to take a break, that you could really do with going to practice.
It’s when you’re stressed out of your mind that it would be really nice to hit someone, or when you’ve got a deadline hanging over you that it’d be great to skate ‘til you can’t think about anything except the way your mouth tastes like blood.
Normally I would extol the virtues of adding half a dozen roller girls as facebook friends, because they brighten up your feed like nothing else. Right now, I hate everyone who is able to update their status to tell me they have a killer bruise or they’re thinking of buying new wheels, simply because I am so jealous.
I want to be skating and improving and hitting and posting about it on facebook. Instead I’m stuck staring at spreadsheets and binding curves and begging my supervisors for an extension and hyperventilating into a tissue when it all gets too much because I didn’t have a paper bag.
My stress levels are through the roof.
I’d feel a lot better if I could skate.
