honestly, just join. any league worth its salt will have some sort of rookie program and while there's always one person in the rookie class that played street hockey and figure skated and has 9 black belts and will skate circles around everyone on day one, more often than not it's a bunch of people falling all over…

aw man, thank you. your dad sounds AMAZING.

i just finished grad school, so i'm going to be a social worker. most of my travelling was done during breaks while i was in school. i would save all year and then go on a very cheap trip during the summer. i would usually volunteer with an organization that would provide food and a place to stay in exhange for work,…

agreed. however, i can't dance beyond jumping in mosh pits and wiggling my ass rythmically, so i'm definitely not going to challenge her to a dance off. she could dance circles around me any day.

i have been sloooooowly getting into shape over the past year and a half. since i get bored easily, i've gone through a lot of different exercise phases. when i took up roller derby when i was in the worst shape of my life, it took me six months to get the basics down. when i took up running a year later, i was…

no, i get it. i talk about my kids all the time. i think it's a good sign, it shows you care and love what you do.

you would probably be fine in a place like ghana or belize, provided you stuck to more urban or suburban areas. haiti....i came home with a lot of rashes, parasites, and general malaise.

i wonder that whenever i travel. i just try to teach some basic math skills whenever i'm in a developing country. everyone needs basic math skills.

where were you? i was in leogane shortly after the earthquake.

nope. poor people also care about looking presentable and know clothing reflects their station in life. i've been to haiti, people will live in a lean-to on a busy street and if by some miracle they have a child in school that child will go to school each day with a spotless uniform. whatever woman was too young or…

i worked in haiti after the earthquake. one man did ask me what a lot of the shirts meant and then translated for his friends. some didn't care, but the ones wearing the more crass slogans were deeply embarassed. most didn't have anything else to wear.

i so torn between "WOAH! SCIENCE!"

oh.....oh my....

this shot is stunning.

i've heard this argument, also the argument that when i'm old i will want family and loved ones around me. however, i work with kids and my family has already gotten started on the next generation. i'm pretty confident there will always be kids in my life even if i don't have any myself.

i think if i felt confident that i could support them and at least give them what my parents were able to give me i would be much more comfortable with the idea of having kids.

that's the thing, though. my fiance and i barely cling to middle class as it is. if we had kids, i'm not sure we'd have the resources to get them into public schools where violence in uncommon and there's a grocery store within a reasonable distance.

i don't know what the subjunctive tense is, but in my humble opinion the wording here is all fucked up. *sucks teeth.*

honestly, i think if a designer can't make clothes that look good on at least a handful of different body types then they are probably not worth their weight in fabic they use. you're a fucking fashion designer, you can memorize thousands of different colors, cuts, fabrics, notions and techniques and you can't figure…

future derby girl.

she might need lube. the condoms may dry her out a bit and cause the tearing.