Prom was quite fun this year… but different too. I went with Emily, which was a lot of fun— Emily’s fun!— and went blind. Due to excess peer pressure, I spiked my hair and went glasses-less (= blind)… it was different, let me tell you. I got a lot of compliments, though… so different must be good! I’ll post up pictures in a couple weeks when they come back from the photographer, although it will probably be more fun to look at Emily than to look at me, lol.
Creator: so who are you really taking to prom?
Me: …?
Creator: lol, you cut her out of People magazine or something, she’s too pretty for you… :/
At school for 15 hours and counting. Yay for me. After school was nerd bowl practice, and then I helped clean out and reorganize the trophy case (when people come tomorrow for districts, we want them to see our huge nerd bowl trophy collection :D) Then came play practice… we’re doing Guys and Dolls this year; should be good. Now I’m once again performing the role of slave-monkey and making signs and whatnot for tomorrow’s competition. Oooh! We need some room signs!
/me trundles off to make room signs.
…as a center of intellectual prowess, at least. We went last night and stayed the night for a nerd bowl tourney. It wasn’t… very well run, to say the least.
We started at 8:00 in the morning. The Rolla people apparently thought it would be funny to have us play seven rounds in a row… until 1:00… with no breaks. Then we got until 2:30 for a lunch break… which meant that we didn’t get out of the tourney until after 5:00. Phew.
The questions were not very academic-bowl-like. Lots and lots of current events, pop culture, and sports. (Not even good current events… silly stuff like Martha Stewart :p) The format was funny too. Here’s how it worked. There were two halves of ten questions each. Each question had 30 points worth of bonus… but the bonus could be split different ways (15 - 15; 6 5’s, etc.) There was no rebounding on bonuses, which meant you HAD to get the questions.
So in the morning, we promptly started the first half of the first game by falling behind by 50 points. Just because the other team read Harry Potter and listened to 50 Cent. Good nerd bowl people don’t do these things :p. But we barely squeaked it out in the end. Of course, by this time I’m afraid that we’re doomed to lose our 36 - 0 record, because that wasn’t a very good team.
The rest of the morning surprisingly went very well. We blew past the rest of the teams as we got warmed up (we had 4 games of over 400 points apiece, and shut out one team 415 - 0). After lunch, we played the same teams, except for the #2 seed, Norwood. We hadn’t played them yet, but we were nervous, because we had heard they had scored over 500 in one game.
The championship game came and I knew we were going to have to play Norwood. Having no clue what to expect, I was understandably a bit uncertain. And in walked… Cuba, who had beaten Norwood in overtime! We had previously beaten Cuba 425 - 85. ‘Nuff said. This time we beat them even worse: 440 - 80. We walked out with the biggest trophy I’ve ever seen in my life. Lol. Good stuff. But now I’m exhausted and buzzing simultaneously after drinking 3 Mountain Dews. Buzzzzzz…
So I was nominated for something called the Presidential Scholars Program; it’s funded by the government and gives the winners a trip to Washington D.C. and other goodies. Some stats on it:
- Top one one-hundredth of one percent of all high school seniors nominated (~2,100)
- ~140 of nominees selected as Scholars
- (a) + (b) = I have no chance (lol)
So basically like the uber-leet MSA, which I DID go to. X fingers, here goes nothing, I’ll apply.
The above was all about a month ago, when I received the letter. Little did I know how much applying for this thing would involve.
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