So I was out of town this weekend for a huge Speech & Debate tournament. The result? You're currently reading the blog of the best Expository speaker in the Pacific Northwest. It's been my goal for the last three fucking years and now I finally have a trophy bigger than my torso. It's very shiny/pretty. I cried in front of several hundred people ( Read more... )

Well, even though Gus rejected my request I'm feeling good. At first I was, you know, heart broken but now I'm doing much better. The way I see it I am at an advantage. There are things I have gained from this rejection. Although I may not agree with his reasoning I like the fact that he rejected me because he's trying to uphold RT's sense of ( Read more... )

So I got my reply from the RT guys. Apparently offers of pastries weren't enough or my humorous/persuasive skills are lacking. I kinda figured the answer was 'no' when I saw I had an e-mail from Gus sitting in my inbox. I know a couple of you wanted to see the reply so here it is:

Well, the thing is I feel that'd be kinda lame for us to SELL ( Read more... )

Okay, so I go to write my letter to the RT guys and I can't because I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ADDRESS IT! What the fuck do I say? "To Whom it may Concern" sounds too formal, but "Whoever the hell is reading this" isn't formal enough! Should it be a formal letter? Would they think it was weird I wrote to them formally? How do I do this? HOW??? HOW?! * ( Read more... )

For those of you playing the at-home game, you'll recall that a friend and I want to perform a dual interpretation of RvB in competitions for Speech and Debate. I've been going through quite a lot so far to achieve this goal and I've just had a major breakthrough. My state's authorities on speech competition have just let me know that I can compete ( Read more... )

David Wu is a representative of the state I grew up in. I’ve had dinner sitting near him in a banquet hall and I have to tell you that he’s a pretty nice guy. I’ve always really liked him. This speech made me love him even more. After watching this I can only assume that he was once on his high school’s or college’s speech and debate team due to ( Read more... )

So, you all know I love RvB right? Well I also love doing speech and debate so I figured what better to do than combine both my loves and perform RvB for a speech? The only problem is that it's not published. I came up with a fabulous idea for getting it published, and the first step was to ask my state's activities association if it would be ( Read more... )

I just want to say thanks to all the people who helped me out while I’ve been sick. More specifically...

Dalton for bringing over Viva Piñata and giving me love and affection despite the fact I’m highly contagious

Alex for letting me borrow his jacket

Tink for telling me the competition results so I didn’t have to wait until Tuesday to hear them ( Read more... )

I won. They looked at me like I was crazy when I told them my expos topic was paper. They said it would never win. There's a trophy sitting on top of my microwave that says otherwise. Take that bitches! First place ( Read more... )

I’m feeling a little better since yesterday. Don’t get me wrong I’m still *this* close to taking ten or twenty sleeping pills so that I can be in a coma instead of feeling so miserable. I had guitar lessons tonight though, and when I’m concentrating on my fingers and the strings everything else goes away. My instructor looks almost exactly like ( Read more... )