Kirby Rambles: I'm a Rambling Rambler Who Rambles

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Welcome back to another Kirby Rambles! I figured a little check-in is due now that we’re almost halfway through the regular season already (wow, time flies). In terms of what’s been going on in real life, I’m less than two months away from graduating university, should everything stay on track with my last four classes. While I’m excited to finally have a degree in my hands, it begs the question what the hell I want to do with the rest of my life, which, honestly? I’m not ready to confront yet, nor have I started job-hunting at all. I suppose I’ll go with the flow and see where it takes me, as I have a good support system that will help me along the way. One of my biggest fears is spending all these years going to school only to end up being completely unsuccessful post-grad, but with some encouragement from friends and family, I think I’ll be okay. I picked up my grad stuff two weeks ago, which includes my cap and gown, and it’s now just set in how soon graduation day is. 

 

In other news, my dog, Olli, had a bile acid test last Tuesday because he had a liver enzyme that was abnormally high, but after two separate blood draws, he’s been cleared with good health and is still maintaining a functional liver! This means he’ll be able to go under anaesthesia to get a small mass in his leg removed, which we had originally scheduled for mid-March, but with the enzyme spike, my family, vet, and I wanted to make sure he was 100% for this procedure. So we plan on rescheduling it mid-May after I graduate so I can dedicate time to take care of him. 

 

Onto VHL news, River has 35 points in 36 games, which is a good pace for a defenseman with 800 TPE on a stacked team like Moscow. After a bit of disappointing sim on Friday, River stormed back with a 5 point sim on Saturday, which included a 4 assist performance against Malmo! I’m hoping he’ll start being able to score some more goals soon, since he’s only got 6, but we’ll see what happens after I get some more TPE applied. Getting closer to that big 1000 TPE mark by the week. 

 

One thing I wanted to bring up is the topic of roleplaying (RP) in the VHL, which some members have leaned into more than others, but from my knowledge (please correct me if I’m wrong), roleplaying as your player was far more common many seasons ago than it is now. Personally, I really enjoy the more lore, character-driven, roleplay aspects of the league in the form of story-driven media spots or interviews where you step into the shoes of your player beyond stats on a webpage, and wish there was more of that on the forum! I wrote a small piece in this genre a few weeks ago about River’s thoughts on becoming a VHL sophomore, while also mentioning his connections to other players in the league, giving him some more character. Maybe I’m biased, though, since the two players I’ve created so far were based directly off characters I’d made beforehand with fully fleshed out backstories that I tailored to fit the VHL lore. 

 

Anyways, that’s all from me this week, folks! This last little bit of the semester may kill me, but I’m going to do my best to finish strong and get this damn degree. See you in the next edition of Kirby Rambles!

 

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Edited March 30 by Banackock

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Welcome back to another Kirby Rambles! I figured a little check-in is due now that we’re almost halfway through the regular season already (wow, time flies). In terms of what’s been going on in real life, I’m less than two months away from graduating university, should everything stay on track with my last four classes. While I’m excited to finally have a degree in my hands, it begs the question what the hell I want to do with the rest of my life, which, honestly? I’m not ready to confront yet, nor have I started job-hunting at all. I suppose I’ll go with the flow and see where it takes me, as I have a good support system that will help me along the way. One of my biggest fears is spending all these years going to school only to end up being completely unsuccessful post-grad, but with some encouragement from friends and family, I think I’ll be okay. I picked up my grad stuff two weeks ago, which includes my cap and gown, and it’s now just set in how soon graduation day is. 

 

In other news, my dog, Olli, had a bile acid test last Tuesday because he had a liver enzyme that was abnormally high, but after two separate blood draws, he’s been cleared with good health and is still maintaining a functional liver! This means he’ll be able to go under anaesthesia to get a small mass in his leg removed, which we had originally scheduled for mid-March, but with the enzyme spike, my family, vet, and I wanted to make sure he was 100% for this procedure. So we plan on rescheduling it mid-May after I graduate so I can dedicate time to take care of him. 

 

Onto VHL news, River has 35 points in 36 games, which is a good pace for a defenseman with 800 TPE on a stacked team like Moscow. After a bit of disappointing sim on Friday, River stormed back with a 5 point sim on Saturday, which included a 4 assist performance against Malmo! I’m hoping he’ll start being able to score some more goals soon, since he’s only got 6, but we’ll see what happens after I get some more TPE applied. Getting closer to that big 1000 TPE mark by the week. 

 

One thing I wanted to bring up is the topic of roleplaying (RP) in the VHL, which some members have leaned into more than others, but from my knowledge (please correct me if I’m wrong), roleplaying as your player was far more common many seasons ago than it is now. Personally, I really enjoy the more lore, character-driven, roleplay aspects of the league in the form of story-driven media spots or interviews where you step into the shoes of your player beyond stats on a webpage, and wish there was more of that on the forum! I wrote a small piece in this genre a few weeks ago about River’s thoughts on becoming a VHL sophomore, while also mentioning his connections to other players in the league, giving him some more character. Maybe I’m biased, though, since the two players I’ve created so far were based directly off characters I’d made beforehand with fully fleshed out backstories that I tailored to fit the VHL lore. 

 

Anyways, that’s all from me this week, folks! This last little bit of the semester may kill me, but I’m going to do my best to finish strong and get this damn degree. See you in the next edition of Kirby Rambles!

 

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Love the healthy Olli thats always fantastic, we love Olli so much I hope he gets the best of surgery and gets better really quickly! Also such a beautiful kirb gif, adds a lot of personality to the post. I really love it definitely very kirb of you. Regarding your points in the VHL, can you give me some? I would really like to win the roty, I forget the actualy name but that. This is very well done and I super love ramblings! Rambling is so much fun. WELL WRITTEN KIRBITHAN!!!!