Stand back, I'm a professional!
I just got home (and cleaned up) from reffing my first hockey game. A former teammate/coworker and I had taken the test with USA Hockey & attended the seminar in the fall so we received our crests. I put attempting to ref on hold until after I had finished last semester's classes, but since furlough is this entire week I'd left my calendar wide open for games to ref if they felt the urge to assign them to me. And did they ever take advantage of that; my first game was tonight, I have one on Saturday, and one next Monday. But it's really fun and a lot to think about all at the same time and I didn't even trip over any of the 10 year olds (my biggest fear is sitting on one of them & crushing 'em) who were playing in this game and I got a great workout chasing after them to watch the goal line/offsides. And I get paid to do it, to boot. It was awesome!
I hope I screw up less on Saturday than I did today.
I hope I screw up less on Saturday than I did today.