i cannot imagine why it was that i gave up ice skating, but i’m pretty sure it can just be chalked up to having more stuff to do in high school and giving up my saturday skating sessions for things like swim meets and whatever else. nonetheless, i’m now reminded of how much i enjoyed it, and damned if i don’t still really enjoy it, and now i’m totally going to skate the shit out of that rink on the midway until it gets too warm.

fell down only once today (wearing gloves today, so no hand damage was sustained — hooray!), and landed on my knees, which are going to have lovely technicolor bruises tomorrow morning, but i also skated for about an hour and a half and kinda got the hang of it mostly again. i am far better at using my left foot for leverage without using the toe pick than i am the right (i tend to use the pick there), though i’m working on that. i even tried swizzling backwards a couple of times, though with only very limited success and so i went back to skating frontwards. also, my birthday-gift-to-self skates totally rock. they fit perfectly and support my (poor sad wobbly) ankles nicely, though i admit that i can’t wait for the leather to ease slightly and conform better to my foot. plus, if i continue to skate downtown, they will be justified much more quickly than if i was just skating on the midway, since the rental fee there is $7 for crappy, ill-fitting hockey skates instead of $3 at the midway.

r. and i were totally going to take treo photos and blog them, but my treo decided to run down its battery all the way, so you’ll just have to imagine us skating around millennium park gracefully and skillfully. well, notfallingfully, anyways.

i had vast awesome amounts of fun. i can’t wait to go again. probably going to go out friday at lunch if anyone on campus would like to join me.