Well here I am, trying to write a paper that’s due tomorrow morning. I need two more pages. I’ve found an outstanding source, but I can’t exactly have Amazon deliver it to me instantly. I can buy some of the articles in PDF format but that costs WAY more than buying the book.

Tonight the College Bowl coached announced the official team; as he told me before, I am on it. If my wife doesn’t come to New Orleans - which she’s said she won’t - I might end up rooming with a stranger. If that person’s parents also come to the conference, she might room with them, which means I might get to room with gretchenmarie but I don’t know. That would be totally awesome though, I would absolutely die of happiness if we could room together!

Oh, and I totally caught a mistake in the 2005 Academic Bowl questions we used tonight. One of them was asking (basically) what country the Suleymaniye Mosque and Aya Sofya are in. As always, they spelled it Hagia Sophia, but anyway. The picture, though, was of the Blue Mosque. All three are in Istanbul, Turkey. So I mentioned that it was the wrong mosque in the picture. The coach was like “are you sure?” I said yes, I’ve been inside all three, and that is the Blue Mosque! This was the next-to-last question of the night, so after practice several people watched while I brought up my pictures from our trip to Turkey and I showed them that yes indeed, it was the Blue Mosque. I even used Google Images to prove it was not Aya Sofya or Suleymaniye! The coach said I’m probably the only person who would ever have caught that, ever. Haha!