What gets me off the couch and to the rink every week....

I want to expand on something I didn't really cover in "Our Zammer" (below).....

It's important that people understand why I keep going back to the rink every week.

Susie told all the nurses and orderlies in the ER the other night that all the girls in the waiting room, clogging up the aisles in our gold jerseys, were "her family." I have never thought of a hockey team as a family before, but with this team it's really true. It surely took me by surprise how much our girls have pulled together to create the Gold family.

It will be very strange and sad to not see Zam skating out there with us over the next days and months. But everyone feels that, not only one or two people. The best thing is we can talk to each other about it, and hugs and sympathetic ears are never too far away. We all help each other through our hard times.

When I started playing hockey 10 years ago this month I certainly never expected all of this. And it's still the best workout on earth.

If I didn't have something like this, I would never have survived law school, to put it plainly. So when I get my JD in a few months, it will belong as much to the people in my life as it does to me.

Our Zammer

On Friday night, our beloved Gold teammate Susie, AKA Zamboni (because she slides around on the ice all the time) did a little too much sliding....straight into the boards, left foot first. The result = 3 broken bones in her leg and a dislocated ankle. Our girl was AMAZING. She was incredibly calm and composed (no screaming or crying), even though the pain must have been unimaginable for her. The game ended with that as the paramedics took her off the ice and to the hospital. She had surgery yesterday to repair some of the damage, and a bunch of us went to see her after in the hospital. She was FANTASTIC, cracking jokes about the paramedics having to cut off her pants, and just generally being her loveable Zammer self the whole time we were there. The paramedics who came are called to the rink to rescue the injured fairly often, and they told her she was a hell of a lot braver than a lot of the men they treated in the past.

That's our Zammer.

Other news -- we're a ways into the semester now, my last one! I have been having a lot of problems getting motivated to do reading and outlining. Most of the time I just want to sit on the couch and watch TV. My classes aren't bad (Remedies, Corporations, Comparative Law, and International Litigation). I'm just feeling really DONE and burned out.

SP and I did have a nice time at the law school dinner a few weeks back. It was at the Regent Beverly Wilshire. We sat with my friend KK and her husband.

My hockey team won our division at the women's tournament in Las Vegas at the end of January -- it was the second year in a row for us winning the title, and we beat the same team (Houston Harpies) both times. So far this year's championship trophy has seen some good times. We took it to dinner and bowling a few weeks back....

....and it was during the bowling that SP got a perfect 300 game, in the dark no less! It was incredible! We were all so happy for him.

That's about all that's new. I'm ready for graduation. May 18th is the big day!