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*