LethargicDebater's Xanga

Friday, December 16, 2005

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:22:54 GMT

i am officially through with NCFCA debate. its been a great 5 years, i love everyone whos been there for me...i'll see you guys around.

Monday, September 12, 2005

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:49:05 GMT

this blows. i just worked 26 hours these past three days. i'm being called in from 10-5 today, on my day off. this was my onle day off in 10 days. :-/ oh weell.

i think i'm debating after all. and i'm behind in school already, which begs the question: why am i on my xanga? chao.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:36:07 GMT

life is going by way too fast. i hope to be able to post more regularly than i have been. however, the primary opener at work is leaving to go to school, which means that i'll be working even more than i already am (35-40 hours a week). i'm also taking a bunch of classes when school starts for me in a week. i'm planning on debating this year, but i'm not sure about that yet. soooo....if you don't hear from me alot, you will probably have a pretty good idea what i'm up to. =)

Friday, July 08, 2005

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:22:39 GMT

i am now a training mentor of jamba juice, lincoln, ca.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:25:15 GMT

work is good. love is good. family is good. life is good. *sigh*.

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Sat, 28 May 2005 15:50:12 GMT

i dig the new nine inch nails. my boss really likes them too...

i'm still trying to get ahold of my paycheck. i'm chasing it to every frickin' jamba juice in the district. maybe today.

i also saw the longest yard last night. so the bomb...adam sandler rocks. and it opened a new can of distaste for texan law enforcement.

i'm going to a slumber party tonight.

Monday, May 23, 2005

Mon, 23 May 2005 01:50:17 GMT

blah, blah, blah. i know i should give a big update, but i don't feel like it.

i have a job.

Monday, April 18, 2005

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:15:49 GMT

....and i have a headache!

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:27:54 GMT

colorado won't happen. unless something un-foreseen happens, my year is over. we gave it a heck of a ride, but it feels a little empty at the end. but like others have said, the results don't really matter. i learned so many lessons, and my appreciation for God's sovereignty has been strengthened so much.

looking forward to a new beginning, a new partner, new friends, old friends, better friendships....

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:07:03 GMT

modesto...wow.

6-0....

1st seed into outrounds...

14th speaker...

clean sweep in octas, advancing...

but it ended there. although the overwhelming consensus that we won quarters, all three judges voted against us. i've finally been knocked out in quarters...it doesn't feel good.

more in depth. thursday, we started off neg against a couple novices. they ran ethanol, and we buried them with on-case and double-digits of solvency/DA's. we really connected well with the judge, which was good because the aff's argumentation was pretty bad.

second, we debated on aff for the first time. the negative had the worst argumentation that i'd ever witnessed...simply put. it left me depressed, because the goal of debate is to learn to communicate, not necessarily winning. i knew that we had crushed them, but i was left very depressed because i took nothing from the round. it was as close as a round can come to being pointless. not good at all...

so by the time the third round rolled around, i was pretty desperate. i just wanted to *debate*. so i was really encouraged when we hit courtney and nick from Faith. we won this also, but their argumentation was excellent, and the round was as well. i wouldn't have minded losing that one, because i knew i couldn't take another bad round.

in the fourth round, we debated modesto, running ethanol with six mandates. i swear there was every kind of ethanol incorporated into that thing. we won on the issues, but they were quite solid. the roos family name speaks for itself, and josh chamberlain shows good potential. modesto has some great novices, as we would further see.

on the final round on thursday, we were aff once again. in a round when everyone was tired, we bested Philbrooke/Philpott. this was not the last we would see of them, though.

so that ended thursday. we were 5-0, as were seth and taylor.

friday morning was crazy. i was getting sick, and losing my voice. worse, we were negative against julie howe and alex gagnon. but this time, we were prepared for their CAFE standards case. in our closest pre-lim round, we eeked out the win to advance to out-rounds as the top seed. nathan and tim were second, and joseph and dan from paradigm cruised into third.

thus set the stage for out-rounds. in octas, we debated ward/corcoran. we lost the coin-toss (i have never won an outround coin toss, and i'm nearing a dozen times). so we went neg. but they ran ANWR/banning saudi imports. as defending the saudis is my favorite thing to do, we had an awesome round. we advanced.

but quarters were a mess. we again debated philbrooke/philpott, but this time on neg. against cellulosic ethanol, we were certainly not our best. but almost everyone watching said that we still won. but the judges....oh, the judges. all three went aff.

a real 180 turn. after picking up every single ballot through octas, quarters failed to grant us any. in a way, it was obviously a real letdown. but we didn't debate nearly as well as we could. i had largely lost my voice...it was funny, i thought i started to sound like tim snyder. so certainly not a nationals performance. unless the colorado thing works out, this will be the end of the year.

chris and i went 14-4 at qualifiers this year, not counting outrounds. a 4-2 at apu, a 4-2 at clash, with this end. this would be a really sad end....

but TIM AND NATHAN Q'D!! so deserving. i love it!

i only hope colorado works...

wow. i'm sorry for not updating for so long. but i'm pretty sure this made up for all of it...

one last thing. although i have had waves of depression, i still can see that God definitley has a plan. if he wants me to Q, he'll do it. i can honestly say i have no regrets about this tournament. congrats to all who qualified, and thanks to all the personnel who made this tourney possible. =)