| But less in a not-credible way as it was in a wonderful, awe-inspiring way. I will never, ever cease to be amazed by these people I am blessed enough to call friends. They continue to fill me with a joy I cannot compare to anything else. It was completely worth the drive to be there - at least for the Friday I was with those people, I was in love with life. To put it in less eloquent terms - it was pretty spiffy.
[Shout-out to some of the most amazing people on earth: Andrew, Marcus, Rachel, Philip, Brandon, Mark, Will, Alan, Marshall, Adam, Garrett, Amy, Samantha, Kristen, Jonathan, Monica, Brisa, Alicia, Paige, Rebekah, Allison, and so many others I'm completely forgetting! Shaun was much missed. Also deserving of a shout-out is Will's little brother Seth, who was pretty amazing and has a boldness that reminds me so very much of his brother.]
I got there in time to hang out in the basement with Marcus and Brandon, drag them both upstairs to find Philip, find Philip and hug him more than once, run back into the basement so he could get food, and run off with Marcus and Brandon to watch LD finals. Philip arrived during the 1AC and was none too pleased no one had notified him the round had begun. Oh well. ^_^
Finals was between Marla Blum and Jason Hughey, and it was a wonderful round - congratulations to Ms. Blum for her well-won title of LD Champion. 
Team Policy finals was between Trevor Anderson/Katie Philpott and Sam Hoel/Allison McCarty. I missed the 1AC due to my fraternizing outside the building (Marcus was highly impressed with my 1AC flow of "Abol"), but caught the rest of the round and was exceedingly proud of my lovely, lovely friend Allison for taking the round and earning her title as Policy Champ. Congrats to you too, love!
Our region did well in speech, too, including claiming the title of National Duo Champions for the second year in a row. Katie Riley also won Expos, and Alan took second in Original Oratory. Andrew placed ninth (one place away from being in finals) in Dramatic and Original Oratory, Sarah Gervais took second in Open Interp, and...basically, they all did great. Yeah. They were pretty fantastic. I love my region.
It was sad to say goodbye to all our graduating people, though - but we all know they'll be back to judge, so it's not goodbye, it's see you later. Maybe much later, but later nonetheless.
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On a lighter note, I'm finally almost entirely done with the chicken pox - everything's healed, scabbed, and come off, so now I'm just waiting examining some of the scars I know I'll have. Thankfully, though, I look normal again and can bring myself to go out in public. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity...
On a heavier note, I gave chicken pox to my brother. He is currently praying that whoever gave it to me originally will burn forever.
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