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Name: Tristram
Country: United States
State: Missouri
Birthday: 6/23/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: None to speak of... for the moment.
Expertise: Here, there, everywhere.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  SBUDBAYTER
Yahoo:  bigmac66210
Member Since:
12/9/2003
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| Okie dokie, so Nats are over. I placed in four of my seven events, my best tournament ever. SBU is the 2007 National Champion... in your face Boise State University. I still haven't really caught up on my sleep lost during the tournament. Happy Spring Break everyone. | | |
| You know who uses "Jesus Freak" for his batting music? Mike Sweeney. I realize he's not as good as he used to be, but at least he's loyal to KC, and a good Christian man, and I can completely respect that even if Iron Mike can't remain healthy for an entire season. Anyway, though, I'm supposed to be chronicling nationals for everyone out there in lala land. So, yesterday we didn't have anything to do, because it as meetings day so while Nathan, Dr. D, and Dr. Compton were busy with stuff the rest of us had nothing to do but sit around and work on events all day. So, along about lunch time I got directions to Pizza Hut from the cleaning lady, because she's a local and I was hungry for a pizza buffet where I could stuff myself silly for fun. So, she gave me simple directions and said it was about a mile away, no big deal. So, Ben Burns, Daniel, and me set out to walk to Pizza Hut not expecting any kind of big huge walk, they were following me since I had got the directions, of course. So, we take off walking from the hotel, not expecting anything big. In the end, I watched the Van's odometer today when we drove that way, we walked 5.25 miles round trip and never found Pizza Hut for our glorious buffet style lunch. Ben and Daniel were unhappy, I think moreso because I found the whole misadventure quite humorous than anything else. And, do you know what the first thing we passed on the way to the University was today? Pizza Hut. This caused me no end of laughter as we had failed to find Pizza Hut the day before because we had turned around one stop light before we would have arrived at Pizza Hut in Mt. Plesant, MI. I think Ben and Daniel have resolved to not tip the cleaning lady, due to her poor directions, and I can't tip her since I have no money, even though I found the whole thing funny. So, in the end we stopped at a Culver's for lunch and I offered a toast to adventure and never following me anywhere again, which Ben and Daniel toasted happily to. Then today was the first day of competition. I'm fairly sure that my Honoring Native Americans event blew up in my face kind of like nitrogycerin when it is shook up a little too hard. It was simply horrible. HOR-IH-BULL! I don't think Extemp went too badly though, so there's hope there. I also totally eviscerated, yes eviscerated, some poor schmuck in the first round of debate, it was quite gratifying, and Student Congress didn't go too badly either, so on the whole I think the tournament is off to a good start. Tomorrow I have Radio Broadcast, Impromtu, Congress, and Debate again, so another full day starting with waking up at 6 am... I'm debating weather or not to make it another Black Rules day, or weather or not to make it a grey suit day... we'll let fate decide, eh? | | |
| The wonders of the modern airport and plane never cease to amaze me. We made it to Michigan in just under two hours of total flight time... a drive that would have taken somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-12 hours otherwise. The dirty TSA took my hair gel, shaving cream, and toothpaste though. They could have at least given me money to replace them, even though it IS my fault that I stupidly forgot about the whole two oz. of liquid thing. On the upside, I was allowed to keep my medicines with no issues from the TSA which was appreciated. I was slightly disappointed though to learn that they had not inspected my extemp file to certify it as "not terrorist". Last year they slapped big stickers all over the thing, I kept one for awhile. I sat next to two complete strangers on the planes today... but I slept most of the time and didn't talk to them very much. Also, fun fact for the day, the McDonalds at Chicago-O'Hare Airport is NOT as expensive as the McDonalds in Clinton, MO. Take that Clinton, MO! I got the first chapter of the two chapters I need to read for State and Local read today between the airports and the plane. I need to do some Serial Killers reading too while practicing my events. In between all of that we went to Bob Evans for dinner as a squad, it wasn't bad. It was Bob Evans. Anyway, I'll probably chronicle cold Central Michigan State University Nationals on here for lack of a better thing to do with my few minutes of me time. Off for now to practice some more. | | |
| Back by Popular DemandSo, you miss me? You really miss me? The rantings and ravings of my depraved slightly odd sense of... something or another. There be them that be demanding some updatage. Truthfully, I've not used this dear little blog... BLOG!... in over a year... I almost forgot how to blog... BLOG!... Uhm... TROGDOR! Anyway, where to begin with lately? So much has been going on, good and bad... e. Some I will discus here. Some in person. Some not a-tall. Klostermeyer is a-tall-ish. So is Daugherty and Seley. We had the state Debate and Forensics Tournament a week back, it was aight. We didn't win this year, but oh well... I got 4th in Extemp. That's about it. | | |
| Presenting, the wonderful logic of the Religion Professors.
Alexander the Great spoke Greek, so even though he WAS a Macedonian, he was really Greek.
Following this logic:
I speak English, so even though I am AMERICAN, really, I'm apparently British. | | |
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