I had so much fun at the Academic Bowl game today. I had totally forgotten what it was like to do academic competition. I need to play more Trivial Pursuit or something! The coach was impressed with my enthusiasm; when we’d met in his office he thought I was quiet and reserved, but he saw that in competition I’m a firecracker! I did pretty well - I only played the second round, but I got most of the answers in the first round and most of them in the second round too! At least I think I did, I didn’t keep count. But it was so amazing, I loved it. Afterward I commented to the other players and the coach, “this was so much fun, I wish I could compete on the regular team!” The coach said “well, we could box your ears and then you could join us!” We all laughed.

I got to do a bit of interpreting today, about 10 minutes, and that was also terrific. I miss one-on-one interpreting a lot, too…VRS isn’t the same, and I don’t even do that very often. Afterward my friend apologized for needing me to interpret, and I said “seriously, I loved it, don’t even worry about it, okay?” He seemed to be okay with that.

I am tired. Sleepy.
I realized the last couple of posts didn’t make it elsewhere because I had turned off both transfer plugins while I was tagging a bunch of old entries. Duh. They should be caught up now.
I had a fun time with my friend Robert tonight. I love him like bees love a flower.

Tomorrow I will be participating in the Alumni Bowl contest, playing for the “current students” team against the 1957 and 1982 teams. I’ve done some brushing up on my 1957 factoids but I haven’t done anything on 1982 yet. Oh well, I have a few free hours tomorrow, I’ll do it then. I was actually invited to be on the College Bowl team, but hearing students can’t participate in actual Academic Bowl activities, so I have to stick to the informal stuff.

I just looked through all the previous Academic Bowl teams and I am surprised how many of my friends were on them! I had no idea I had such a wonderful group of nerds around me. I loved It’s Academic, which is basically the same thing. Academic teams rock!