04/08/2006: "A blustery day"

Ten hours until the speech. I have about 80% memorized and that I can, for the most part, recite. I'd work on the rest, but I'm too tired to get anything done right now. Instead, I'm going to read it over a few more times, sleep, then work on it again in the morning.

I'm still rather nervous, but I think that's normal. I'll do my best, and then I'll see what happens. I can't really do anything else but worry, and that doesn't fix anything.

Other than that.. I guess that's about all I talk about lately. At least it'll all be over tomorrow. Today, I studied and read through the script over and over again, watched movies, and tried to relax a bit. I'm still not sleeping well, alot of waking up and some not-so-good dreams (which are usually pretty vivid). I'm hoping it's stress-related and will go away soon enough.

Did I mention that I got to eat M&Ms (the candy) during class this week? Not sure if I did. I think so.. but if I didn't, yes.. it was alot of fun, and though I don't really like chocolate, it was still really cool. I kinda feel like I'm in preschool again in that class sometimes, because we're coloring pictures or cutting things out, but I think I like it more than sitting in a long science class and only taking notes.

I should probably go to bed now. I need to wake up early, so I'll get going! I'll try to post sometime tomorrow after the competition with the results.

Oh, and:

mikasan ha kore wo yomu no? shiranakatta. itsuka, jikan ga areba, comment wo shita hou ga ii deshoune.


Jason