{"id":1404,"date":"2010-10-17T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2010-10-17T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T06:20:00","slug":"epic-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/1404","title":{"rendered":"Epic Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since something went right for me.  This weekend, a whole heck of a lot went right in a hurry.  I am trying to get used to the feeling of being really super-happy.  I was silly-smiley all weekend as things unfolded, especially today.<\/p>\n<p>I am too wired to write effectively, but I want to capture my thoughts in their giddy haze.  The setting was the University of Maryland at College Park, and the action was a debate tournament.  Obviously.<\/p>\n<p>In roughly chronological order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We got to Maryland on-time Friday despite traffic and checked-in to a GA I last attended at a tournament I won (Hybrids &#8217;01 with Kate Myers).<\/li>\n<li>I got to debate in a double-LO attack in a demo round with Mike Buckwald.<\/li>\n<li>We found (good) food after almost starving to death after rounds and going to housing.<\/li>\n<li>We found free parking on campus thereafter.<\/li>\n<li>I was able to retrieve my sleeping bag from GA hours after the building was locked by reliving my high school break-in-to-tight-spaces self by slipping through the narrowly open window.<\/li>\n<li>Two words:  Party Bus.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing Dave &#038; Kyle are in a 4-0 round.<\/li>\n<li>Getting to watch Dave &#038; Kyle in a 4-0 round.<\/li>\n<li>Dave &#038; Kyle winning a 4-0 round.<\/li>\n<li>Ashley calling the shot that they&#8217;d be a non-breaking 4-1.<\/li>\n<li>This meaning that Ashely &#038; Gordon upset the 4-0 in their pull-up round.<\/li>\n<li>Both Dave &#038; Kyle and Ashley &#038; Gordon breaking in their respective divisions.<\/li>\n<li>Both breaking teams picking up in varsity quarters &#038; novice semis.<\/li>\n<li>Dave &#038; Kyle picking up semis while good rumors come from novice finals.<\/li>\n<li>Not judging finals.<\/li>\n<li>Dave &#038; Kyle have qualled and gotten RUDU into their first final ever.<\/li>\n<li>Epic finals case.<\/li>\n<li>Floor speech mayhem.<\/li>\n<li>Holy speaker awards, Batman!<\/li>\n<li>Finding out ABom &#038; Nisha just missed the novice break.<\/li>\n<li>Waffle House!<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/RUDUWHUMCP.jpg\"><\/li>\n<li>Ghost.<\/li>\n<li>Being too wired to sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could get used to this.  Watch out, APDA, RUDU has thrown down the gauntlet.  And we had fun doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since something went right for me. This weekend, a whole heck of a lot went right in a hurry. I am trying to get used to the feeling of being really super-happy. I was silly-smiley all weekend as things unfolded, especially today. I am too wired to write effectively, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,30],"tags":[5,67,70],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","category-the-agony-of-the-wait-is-the-agony-of-debate","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo","tag-the-agony-of-the-wait-is-the-agony-of-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}