My current obsession is roller derby, I play on the top-line team
for one of the local leagues, and in the meantime try to get out to
all the bouts I can, to help officiate. I used rollerblades to
commute through much of my college years and so the switch to quad
skates was pretty easy. The switch to falling a lot and getting
bruised is not so easy...Currently working on being able to jump
the apex and land it backwards on one foot.
A while back, I learned to
unicycle, in some ways, yes, it is as
hard as it looks, but it took more time for the training wheels to
come off my first bike than to get rolling on a uni, so don't be
afraid to try it if someone offers!
Before derby took over my life (wish I had time for everything) -I
had been involved with the SCA
traditional archery group,
just bow, arrow, and skill (maybe a bit of luck thrown in.) I found
I've enjoyed making my own accessories for it almost as much as the
shooting itself. So I"m now the proud owner of a hand-worked
leather quiver and fur lined arm bracer ^_^.
It's rare that I'm not learning something, whether through just
reading on the internet, journals, or whatever happens to catch my
fancy this week.
More long term learning interests include:
Japanese - I passed the JLPT level 3 a
few years ago and got to use it on a company-training trip to japan
- managed to survive a maid cafe conversation entirely in japanese,
which will likely be the peak of my achievement, lol. Also
saxaphone - I
pick this up every few months, love it, and then somehow I always
end up losing the time to play. Not that I'm any good, but if one
day I could play the sax solo from Pink Floyd's "The Gunner's
Dream" I'd be able to die happy.
I work to live, rather than live to work. I'll admit money is nice
but it's just not that much of a motivator for me. That said I'm
happy to finally be out of a long string of
call center jobs (tech support
hell!) and into an
electronics technician
position with a major oilfield services company. Now I just have to
get over the evil oil karma hit, but I drive a small car, so it
sorta balances....right?