I have fifteen minutes to dress up in business attire and I finished my speech a few minutes ago.  By eight it should be memorized since the section I'm in does the speech part first. 

Wish me Luck!

ETA:  I didn't make it in time.  I'm going to go wallow in self-pity now... 

Five, apparently.  Coincidentally, about the same amount of AcaDorks are required to fix the ceiling.  A pattern, perhaps?  X3

So, after almost suffering a nervous breakdown (with the crying, almost not being able to breathe thing included free of charge) I actually went to AcaDec today and finally received some help with writing my speech after an eternity of people saying, "Go write a speech!" without bothering to explain what the fuck that entails.  Bitter enough for ya?  ;D

I had fun today!  Currently my favorite people in AcaDec (excluding Rissy) are Bernard, Hector, Paolo, Mariah and this one girl whose name I am not entirely sure of.  XDDD  Yeah, I like friendly people. Theresa is OK I guess, but she's a bit too intense for my liking.  She no play around, I think, so yeah, I feel intimidated.  >_> 

Oh!  My part of the competition is the day after tomorrow!  And speeches, interviews, and impromptus are first for me.  Did I mention the part where I haven't written my speech yet?  No pressure!  *hyperventilates*

Yeah...  No pressure... 

I had a whole bunch more I was going to write about, but eh...  I guess I can do that later, when my sanity isn't involved. 

Later, 
            SL

So, er, I've been neglecting my AcaDec studies for a while--most notably my speech.  I was supposed to write a speech about something involving politics in  some form or another....  *les sigh* 

I'm writing something entirely different now.  As different as can get, come to think of it.  *sighs yet again* 

No longer am I to perform a speech about something vaguely related to politics, but about how being bilingual affects me. 

It's strangely easy to write about, come to think of it, for a topic that I haven't focused all that much on.  All I know is that the second-to-last paragraph is going to be POWERFUL.  (I think...)

Concrit will bring much love.  I need to get this proofed tomorrow...  *looks away*

I haven't updated in a while, and I'd figured I'd take the chance to do so now even though I should be doing my homework and/or studying like a good little girl.  *dramatic sigh* 

Alas, I am not, which is unfortunate for my "It's a new semester, let's do something productive!" resolutions.  : )

I was a good girl yesterday, though.  I did all of my homework, or at least attempted to complete it and I wrote notes and everything!  But I'm feeling lazy at the moment, which will do wonders for my future grades.  Speaking of grades, I flunked most of my first semester.  The only things I passed were Applied Chemistry and Geometry.  I was only one point away from passing English!  ARGH!  If Miss Rockey had only made the Final worth 20% of our semester grade, I would've gotten at least some credit! 

Too bad for me, though, 'cause I can't be too mad at her since I could see where she was coming from.  Yes, people who are too stupid and/or lazy to do their work shouldn't be able to pass.  I still curse lack of credits, though. 

I'm still pretty much screwed when it comes to graduating, but perhaps through a combination of summer school and night school I can?  Even if it turns out that I don't, then there's always community college, right? As far as I'm concerned, the only definite thing is that I'm getting my masseuse license after I'm through with high school. 

I went to Academic Decathlon all by my lonesome today.  Rissy said she had a headache... 

Oh!  I wrote an essay in under an hour!  That was awesome, though I loathe the essay.  The fact that I actually finished is reason enough to celebrate.  *grin* 

Next:  Learn how to write and perform a speech.  *groan*  Not to mention impromptus and interviews.  DX  I'm not really worried about the tests since if I study a bit I'll do good, and even if I don't study I'm a good guesser.  XDDD 

Well, later!  I'm off to watch the Mexican version of Desperate Housewives.  Yes.  A Mexican version of Desperate Housewives, I kid you not!