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dragonlady7I am eating oatmeal. Mm. Oatmeal.
I have a terrible headache. And last night I managed to fall pretty hard a bunch of times (I'm sort of glad I went to practice, honest) while attempting to skate as the jammer, so I am feeling fairly fragile today.
We pretty much bouted all practice, which was awesome, and I think I started understanding how it's supposed to work, and it wound up being a lot of fun, but I sort of got run into a lot.
Someone showed up with a video camera last night. Does anyone mind if I tape this, she asked, and two girls said yes, we mind. We don't want the videos shown to the public.
One girl didn't explain but the other said she is worried that she might get in trouble with her boss for doing roller derby. That makes me a little worried, as we're expecting 700 spectators at our first bout and what is she going to do then?
All of this is highly upsetting, as Artvoice has been saying they want to host videos of our bouts on their website. So, um...
I don't mean to be snarky, I'm just sort of baffled. I should shut up, because the girls didn't really get a chance to explain themselves, and I'm not saying I completely disagree with them on principle (i'm not wild about being caught on film, and video only compounds the awful), but I'm upset at the thought that we won't be able to video our own bouts. Why? What are we going to do? This very Sunday we're all getting together to watch video a girl took at a bout in Cleveland, and a DVD Sweets bought of another bout. It seems that it's fairly standard practice for bouts to be caught on video. And it's tremendously instructive, let alone entertaining, to watch such videos. But more importantly, having videos of our bouts available online would be a tremendous way to increase our popularity and connection with fans, especially out of town fans. It could be a great way to attract sponsors. And it would just be awesome-- especially as Artvoice would be happy to host them, which means we don't have to worry about the size; they'd also produce them, which is an entirely different issue, but think about it-- every one of our bouts presented as if on TV. How great would that be?
But not if it's going to upset some of our members. It won't work then, and what should be an exciting bit of publicity will wind up being a divisive issue. That takes a lot of the fun out of it. I wish I understood.
I am feeling sort of sorely bereft without Andreas here now. It was awesome to have him here, although I probably should have done more exciting things with him. Now I should clean the house, as I've no more excuse not to. I did do one big load of dishes and I'm doing yet more laundry (how do I have so much laundry, of late? I don't know, but it's kind of crazy), but I am just so tired and fragile and sore and headachey today, you'd never know that I'd just had a mini-vacation. Roller derby will apparently do that to you. Roller derby in combination with a sudden, drastic change of weather, from 65 and sunny to 35 and gusting with pissy ice-rain. Eurgh!
The team captains and co-captains are picking teams for roller derby tonight, I forgot to mention. Tonight.
I have a terrible headache. And last night I managed to fall pretty hard a bunch of times (I'm sort of glad I went to practice, honest) while attempting to skate as the jammer, so I am feeling fairly fragile today.
We pretty much bouted all practice, which was awesome, and I think I started understanding how it's supposed to work, and it wound up being a lot of fun, but I sort of got run into a lot.
Someone showed up with a video camera last night. Does anyone mind if I tape this, she asked, and two girls said yes, we mind. We don't want the videos shown to the public.
One girl didn't explain but the other said she is worried that she might get in trouble with her boss for doing roller derby. That makes me a little worried, as we're expecting 700 spectators at our first bout and what is she going to do then?
All of this is highly upsetting, as Artvoice has been saying they want to host videos of our bouts on their website. So, um...
I don't mean to be snarky, I'm just sort of baffled. I should shut up, because the girls didn't really get a chance to explain themselves, and I'm not saying I completely disagree with them on principle (i'm not wild about being caught on film, and video only compounds the awful), but I'm upset at the thought that we won't be able to video our own bouts. Why? What are we going to do? This very Sunday we're all getting together to watch video a girl took at a bout in Cleveland, and a DVD Sweets bought of another bout. It seems that it's fairly standard practice for bouts to be caught on video. And it's tremendously instructive, let alone entertaining, to watch such videos. But more importantly, having videos of our bouts available online would be a tremendous way to increase our popularity and connection with fans, especially out of town fans. It could be a great way to attract sponsors. And it would just be awesome-- especially as Artvoice would be happy to host them, which means we don't have to worry about the size; they'd also produce them, which is an entirely different issue, but think about it-- every one of our bouts presented as if on TV. How great would that be?
But not if it's going to upset some of our members. It won't work then, and what should be an exciting bit of publicity will wind up being a divisive issue. That takes a lot of the fun out of it. I wish I understood.
I am feeling sort of sorely bereft without Andreas here now. It was awesome to have him here, although I probably should have done more exciting things with him. Now I should clean the house, as I've no more excuse not to. I did do one big load of dishes and I'm doing yet more laundry (how do I have so much laundry, of late? I don't know, but it's kind of crazy), but I am just so tired and fragile and sore and headachey today, you'd never know that I'd just had a mini-vacation. Roller derby will apparently do that to you. Roller derby in combination with a sudden, drastic change of weather, from 65 and sunny to 35 and gusting with pissy ice-rain. Eurgh!
The team captains and co-captains are picking teams for roller derby tonight, I forgot to mention. Tonight.
