Nope, I’m not dead, just in San Diego

Many of you have asked if I’m dead since I haven’t update in a while, but I was just in San Diego at over the weekend at a speech and debate tournament. The highlights include:

--Me turning 23 and my team throwing me a party. The northwest contingent sings me happy birthday at dinner. I feel loved. :-)

--We watch the entire first season of “The Office” at the tournament. PAM PAM!

--Jared qualifies extemp and Josh qualifies his poetry, Ashley clears 3/4ths of her events, Jess clears at both tournaments, both of our duo’s are in finals at the 2nd tournament, and we get third place in our division at the 1st tournament. Booya, grandma!

--Tyler finally feels comfortable enough with his sexuality to be honest with us all. I’m really proud of him.

--I get to hang out with friends I don’t see that often, including Ian and Caroline, Brendan and the super cool Kiyomi.

--I get a little tipsy after one Mike’s Hard Lemonade. That’s how I roll.

--My Willamette friends Sean and Sam win the Round Robin. Basically, they could mess everything else up for the rest of the year and still fall back on that, so rock on!

--I carry our massive overall trophy through various airports and tell those who inquire about it that I won it in an “ass modeling competition” over the weekend. Hey, that’s not a complete lie.