a day or so in the life of a derby chick

how do we do what we do and what else do we do when we're not doing it?
whew!
I think every girl on our league has like two jobs and two kids, or responsibilites equivalent to it. So I'm going to try to do a day in the life of a derby chick...starting with moi, because i'm easy for me to write about.

zee Morning

I hate them, even as child I was resistant to them.
During the week I wake up anywhere from 5am to oh shit it's already 7:15am. My son,
Arman Dangerous, usually wakes me up because he doesn't have the morning curse and has to be at school by 7:45am. Then I hit the morning traffic train for about 45min-1hour, w/no rhyme or reason for the timing. I've got to be at work by 8:30.

The day at work, bleh bleh bleh, I'm a receptionist at a cool uptown office with hopes of climbing the ladder.....off at 5:30pm and back to my son's school by 6:30, singing and screaming thru the traffic.

Now, on Tuesday nights and some Thursday nights I am a massage therapist. So it's a shuffle of motherhood, dinner, homework and off to bubble myself in a mood of calm, cool, collect...seems more like a switch on than a reality these days.

Sunday nights and Wednesday nights it's derby time! On Wednesday nights I hop back in my car for another 30 min-1hour to get to practice with the rest of the world that doesn't know how to drive. I pretty much feel beat down by the time I get to practice..... but it's about switching on your motivations, ya can't think about it, you just have to keep moving. Robotic almost. I just channel the traffic into my skating, RELEASE!

The rest of my life-Monday&Friday nights and Saturdays,is the regular stuff, house work, procrasinating house work, family time, extra excercise, friends.......they all pretty much get an nth of whats left of me...but I do it for derby. I love the way it feels to give a block and still be standing or pass up the pack like I wish I could in traffic. The sport is addictive.

Mia Hammer
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