the Diva Platform

Last Sunday was the Windy City Rollers annual Black & Blue Ball, which celebrates the end of the year’s home and travel team seasons.  I didn’t know what the heck to expect–after all, the dress code was “formal, whatever that means to you.”  So few rules left me hanging, but people came wearing t-shirts, people wore a lot of sequins, Scorey Feldman put on blue face, and one skater even wore her wedding dress (I WILL wear it again!  I’ll show you!).  Thanks to H&M, I got a blue shirt with black sequins, so I felt a little sparkly and appropriate.

At any rate, it was a little food, a little booze, a few awards, and a talent show.  An awesome talent show.  Talents that ranged from a skater standing on her head to show underwear with “shark” written on the butt, another skater who ripped apples apart with her bare hands, some guitar playing, some burlesque, and the officials, who did a little dance to show off all the referee penalty signals.  It was awesome (of course).  I’m down in front with a couple other stats folks, doing my sexy stopwatch twirling.

Check out the video, but prepare to have your mind “officially blown” (or, if you don’t know derby penalty codes, play along at home).

My brain wants to take a little vacation from blogging…mostly because I’m boning up on roller derby.

See, Windy City Rollers’ first home travel team match is tomorrow, and I’m geeked for a number of reasons:

–Philly is coming to town, and they’re good, so it should be a well-matched bout.

–I’m statisfying in a new position, inside the track, collecting penalties from the refs and feeding them to the penalty tracker.  I’ve practiced this at scrimmages, but doing the real thing will be a fun challenge!

–It’ll be my first time working with the new rules (apparently every year or so, the rules get refined a bit, as is the case with many new sports.  It’s kind of like updating software, so I’m getting used to the new tweaks and am curious to see how they work in matches….if you know roller derby, you may/may not know that the new rules eliminate the jammerless jam concept, among other things.  Should be faster game play with some of the changes).  This means a few more penalty codes to remember and that tripping is once again called a low block.

–There’s a slight possibility Intejill will have a costume.  The question is getting it done.  The tease?  Pants by number.

Since my brain is filling up on new rules, new penalty codes, and the like, it’s not too thrilled about coming up with a new post/rant.  It just wants to think about the awesomeness of derby and the possibility of you being there tomorrow.