there were actually three bands last night, but i got the most shots of these guys. im not going to put up party picture on flickr cause i already put them on facebook. that might seem lazy. and i agree. whatever.
oh right, 1st birthday of the RDRDA last night. i hadn’t planned on really taking that many pictures, but they asked me to bring my camera to take a group shot, and of course once i let it out of its case it just went fucking bananers and snap happy everywhere. yet another 750 shot night.
i’ve been thinking about something that someone said the other day, i can’t remember who but i do remember the context of it. one of the other new guys who wants to ref doesn’t have a derby name yet and the girls were deciding on one for him and he was asking why they weren’t doing that for me and someone said “he doesn’t have to, he’s established himself here.”
that one sentence is weird to me. on the one hand, I’m glad that I’ve been recognized as an established part of the group/team/derby community, but on the other hand I’m a little wary of it because it makes me miss vancouver and everyone there. it’s weird, I know.
in two weeks i’ll have lived here 7 months. in six months I’ve already been told that my contract is probably 100% going to be extended. in 5 months I’ve become established pretty well in the roller derby community. in one month, I’m flying the fuck out of here and getting back to Italians, the Cambie, robin williams and russell peters quotes, and what I feel is the closest family that I’ve ever established next to my own relatives.
it’s a strange state of mind.
sleep now.