A the geek in me really enjoyed Friday and Saturday at the Speech portion of our NFL National Qualifying tournament. I love the kids, the other judges, getting to see old students return as judges (they must be 2 years past high school graduation). I love the thrill of the qualifying process. And best of all, we had 3 students in the finals round this weekend. One DUO team, one Extemp – Domestic, and a HI (one of the partners from the DUO). We all cried when CBass qualified in first place in HI. It was awesome. This event was announced before the HI event and his partner didn’t realize if he qualified in HI he couldn’t qualify in DUO. They place 5th which was great anyway because to be honest – DUO was the strongest event this year. Off to Vegas in June now. I was going anyway, but now it there will be icing on the cake. Our PUF debate team was the first alternate. I don’t want them to go because it would be someone else’s misfortune – we already learned how tough that is.
At the awards – Garrett was recognized. We all wore ribbons with his school colors all weekend. When Chris announced the minute of silence she actually began crying which set a bunch of us off. Those of us who knew Garrett. It was tough.
On Monday, I went to a DB2 Users group for KC. Another geeky thing – I know. It was fun. I ran into someone from Toastmasters and that was fun too. My work friends there said only I could meet someone once and have them recognize me. Okay that was interesting too because I cut my hair off to donate to Locks of Love. It is shorter than it has been in 14 years. I mean really, really short. It is a bit liberating not to be tied to long hair.
This week is turning out to be okay so far…
