a long post overdue
it's a good feeling when you get rewarded for hard work. you all have probably read the tournement summary, and how mvt rocked, but i will say that dobson was easily my best tournement ever. i guess that at the beginning of this year i told myself that my attitude towards school and speech would be different, and these first 2 1/2 months have been that way. school has definately picked up, and speech and debate definately picked up as of yesterday. i was so scared at the beginning of this year about all the "junior year" i had to deal with and that i wouldn't be ready to do any tournements, but now i realize that it really is possible to boggle both. though 1'st semester pails in comparison to the insanity that will be 2'nd semster, (especially the month of April), the work is still hitting in. so i guess what it is; is that i dont mind having nights where i absolutely hate life and i dont mind sleeping late all the time, and i dont mind having to sacrifice going out on fridays/saturdays. and the reason this is the case is because the end goal justfies it. doing well in school, and doing extremely well in s&d makes it ok. it's already seemed that this year has just been flying by. and i just cant believe that theres only 6 weeks of school left in the semester, but to me, everything seems to be going well. the only thing that will suck is that for these next 6 weeks, there are no tournements to look forward to. but you know what, it doesn't even matter anymore to me. i am so motivated to do well now in my events (especially extemp), that i will still work at s&d over the next weeks and in the beginning of 2'nd semester, so i can do well at ASU. i do hope, though, that the motivation is contagious and that everyone will work hard to make a top 3 placing at State sweeps a reality for this team. just think about it - we had more 1'st places yesterday than any tournement last year, and we did it with 9 people on saturday. imagine if we had a team of thirty, or if we had a team of forty, how good we can do. but as ive realized this year, saying you're going to do work, and saying that you will be succesful doesn't mean anything. its how you turn those statements into results is what matters, and i think that finally, after 15 years, im starting to realize that.