mandey's world

finally rest after a very VERY long day! last night was an experience of it's own at the speech tournament over at lubbock high...yea, mandey got to judge what? Debate...yea;P and not just any debate, CX!! which is only the worst form of debate everknown to man! lol..luv all my friends that are CX fanatics, but me being a public speaker/interper can't stand debate let alone CX! bleh...now i understand when my coach would tell the debaters not to get into a fit and be overly sarcastic...it peeves the hell out of a judge...i wanted to grab one of those girls last night and shake her crazy! lol..probably would have if i didn't have that whole ethics thing..;) today i started early! i judged one of my favs: prose! arg...it was prelims...way too many blehs...but it was ok..most of them were beginners, so that was perfectly fine..i remember when i was a newbee...good times good times...then one round of dramatic followed by a round of humorous followed by a 2nd round of dramatic, semis of humorous and lastly finals of dramatic...what fun all of that was! i truely did have fun though! but oh my gosh..the taboos arewhat got so annoying...'i was raped; i was abused; have cancer; aids...and hey, isurvived it all'...or 'i live in the crazy house' arg...after three rounds of Dramatic, i remember why i prefered not to do it myself when i was in highschool...omg..i haveto tell the story...i did both preliminary rounds if Dramatic interpretation. sometimes, b/c it takes a lot of devotion to do dramatic, it is hard to get enough people entered in an event so sometimes peopleare just randomly thrown in just to make numbers...yea..my first round, it was as though half those people were 'fillers'...yep yep..this one girl went off in some way out story...2 minutes into it, she goes..ok, that's all...and she walks out of the room..i was like...ok?? well igo turn in my ballot and then do humorous where of course i have a couple of 'fillers' once again...go to lunch, then they go hey, you want to judge Dramatic? sure why not...well most of the people go through..b/c there are just a few sections i get a few of the same people again...a couple i was soooo happy to have...and then i'm waiting on my lastperson...i turn and look out the door when i hear a gasp followed by a muttered oh crap! it was my 2 minute filler from earlier...gosh...i guess she had hoped she would neverhave to see me again;) well at least this time she spoke a whole minute longer! lol...well, today i saw many of my friends! yes..it's sad; many of my friends are people who don't even live here in lubbock! i so forgot about this one girl from Tascosa high school..one of my former competitors and a good friend...yea,,,i judged her twice! lol..fun times! ok..it's been since like august since i saw Locke aka "dave" my old speech coach...i finally get to hug her like midmorning when both of us had a few moments..we started talking then i hear a "what is this? Mandey flores isn't gonna even acknowledge me? not even a formal hello?" yea..it was my old old speech coach...ok..i'm sorry but i really had no real connection to her...she was my coach for what? a semester...truely only 2 months...who taught me everything that helped me succeed? Dave. who got me all the resources? Dave. i wanted to spend time w/my close friend not some distant teacher...she was so offended. all i had said was oh hi!! and gave an excuse that i didn't recognize her and that i was really tired and all..i know she didn't buy it, but who cares??? then later, i heard some things that really got me mad...supposedly, a position is opening up..but the thing is, a dear friend has that position..so...yea! really peeved me off!and she hasn't done anything worthy of being fired! grr....if i come to find that this information is true, i have a strong inkling to go give some people a piece of my mind! well things are going good here...it's taken me a whole hr. to write this entry b/c everyone keeps on getting me to fill their cokes and doing things for them...grr...well, my momma and i are gonna go exploring soon;) lol...shopping time!! can't wait!! and she's gonna help me find some hair dye that will make my hair go to some other color than Auburn that quickly turns to a bad orangy color...yes! weare gonna experiment! yay!! maybe we will figure it out by the time i go back to school!well gonna go and get some sleep since yea, have church w/the family early in the morning...talk to yal laters and sorry for the long rambling:)