my robot's trouble
two of my dogs are really sick. howie and buttons have been out of it all day so mom is taking them to the vet and i just hope they’re okay and we don’t have to put them down or anything. cos htey’re both really good dogs. and i like them a lot. and it would be sad if they had to die. :-/ erhm. i hope they’re okay.
i quallified for state forensics today (rox0rz!). it was another bad situation though. i took 1st at WaRu.. but i was announced as having taken 5th place. and i was pissed cos i thought i spoke all kinds of fabulous. i didn’t even fucking bounce my damned gestures. pish. anyway. i got ballots back on the bus and read them and they went 1-2-2-2-4. and i was like WTF! how was it even possible that someone could take 5th in a round with those scores. fuck. i marched hostily to mckeithan and was like “hey how did i take 5th!? 1-2-2-2-4! that can’t take 5th!” and he was like “i’ll go find out” so he was gone and i bitched a whole lot about how morons were running the tournament (but not alissa.. cos tony blair is her superhero/celebritycrush lol) and then mckeithan came back out and was like “you took 1st.” i guess what happened is that they were using spread sheets on computers in tab. for the nongeek that means that that were putting them on spreadsheets and then using sort to figure out who was first. like just sorting by the totals column (i assume) and then writing them down based on who won. however, they found that this was a bad idea because i guess some of the columns didn’t get selected right or their was a flaw in their spreadsheet or something. cos mckeithan showed them the ballots and they were like “oh shit.” so they troubleshooted, figured out what the problem was and realized i was first. in which case it turned out good for me. but it turned out that my friend jonathan whom i like a lot was in 6th but announced 2nd. which sucks cos jonathan is such a nice guy. dammit. and he’s from west. which means i screwed west over, again. motherfucker.
i took 2nd in ld last night which was cool but there were only 6 of us and most of them were novices. so i suppose its not really worth mentioning. but i did get to talk to the guy i debated in finals and it turns out he’s hella-cool. we spent most of the weekend when we weren’t in rounds pacing and talking to each other. it was nice. who knew people fun like that came out of lansing. lol.