The Final Word

Well, the decision was made tonight, I am officially going to zones. It's still not for sure if I am going to scratch bars or not, but its a very large possibility. Everything else I'm fine on. Vault and Beam no problem at all, and the only thing on floor is a backwalkover... which I'll just do a really ugly one and take the deduction instead of trying to do a good one and hurting myself. And bars, well, I just can't do a kip, so if I can do it by Saturday then great, I may make it to states. If not... there go my chances. Even if I got a 10.0 on all the rest I couldn't get a high enough score to go :-( But unfortunately my body is more important. I wish it wasn't, but it is, and it sucks. But life shall go on, and heck, I'm alive and walking!

I had forgotten...

How incredibly dissapointing and confusing ballots can be. Maybe that is why I never read them right after tournaments. I've gotten into the habit of that. I figure that what I can learn from ballots can be learned just as well a few days (well sometimes a few weeks ;-P) later just as right after the rounds. And saves a lot of frustration too. But, a lot of frustration always remains. The rounds that you "should have won" rounds that if the debater had judged themselves both teams would have agreed... and disagreed with the judge. The rounds where the RFD is that it was a coin toss, or the worst of all, is when they vaguely say that there was some technicality that you lost on, but never say what that technicality was so you can improve upon it.

So, my rant about NCFCA judging is now done.

Quote of the Day #4

Joy: "Oh yeah, and Bethany thinks that the term "heifer" is offensive and oppressive. From now on Bethany decided you all should refer to yourself as the Independent Women. That's all."

Yabadabadoo

Yes, so I had a good tournament on Saturday... it was a bit wierd not debating with Chris, in fact it was incredibly wierd. It isn't that I don't like debating with Kaitlin, in fact I love debating with her. (and despite what she says she is an excellent debater) Yeah, I just debated with Chris a long time, and fifth round we went against him and Alex. Yeah, kinda odd, but by far the most fun, and the best round of the whole tournament :-) I love debate!

Hmmmmm

I went to gymnastics today for almost an hour. I didn't do very much, but it was nice to be able to be back... scary, but nice at the same time. And.................... A Tournament Tomorrow!!! (Yay for Debate, and Yay for my stupendously amazing partner Kaitlin :-D)