we're in the middle of the tournament. so far I think we've done wonderfully, especially seeing how 1/4 of the semi-finaling debaters are from sitka!!! I think that my pieces have done pretty well, but I honestly can't say how well. In the last round that I watched, Mike and Calvin's duo completely ROCKED the SOCKS of the rest of them. The judge was so into it, he started TWO applause breaks. Thank goodness the boys cut their piece a bit or they would've been disqualified for time, ya know.

Last night, four of us got dropped off at Title Wave, thinking that the rest of the team would join us and we'd have a grand little coffee shop party. But noooo, an hour and a half later, we're still standing around in a bookstore, getting really bored and really tired. Finally, my mother shows up to tell us that she's been lost in Anchorage all this time. Cool. So, it takes us another half hour to get to the hotel because we're really uncoordinated like that. Caitlin and I yelling directions, but neither of us know left from right, my mother almost killing us on a snow burm. ugh, it was the madness.

But I'm having the time of my life. Or so it seems at this minute. I may say later that in fact THE time of my life was when I went to "the biggest waterslide in north america" in Canada (whose title was stolen a month later by disneyworld with one a foot taller) with my daddy. but right now, I'm enjoying every minute of it.

Track of now: "Lips of an Angel"--Hinder

 it just fits right now.