how swiftly pass the days!

Almost a week until States! It seemed far away at Regionals... now the real competition is upon us! We are up against four other high school teams, some of which regularly go to Worlds. Now, the top two teams go to worlds. So we have a 66% chance. Then there is the Ranatra Fusca award. It is Odyssey of the Mind's highest award and is given to teams or individuals for extreme creativity. Winners of the Ranatra Fusca automatically advance to the Worlds tournament, no matter how the team places. Back on topic-- we've been working on our performance and our spontaneous skills all month. During rehearsals, we've especially been practicing volume ("Louder, Katie, louder!") and humor, trying to be as funny as we can and make sure that the jokes we all get are also understood by the audience. Humor is a major part of the scoring. (humor in the perfomance - 1-15 points) Our technical stuff is mostly working... hopefully all the kinks will be worked out before State. That Rube Goldberg machine has a mind of it's own and consistently refuses to work when we want it to. grrr. I have to go make sure my brother isn't trying to burn the house down... will report again before State!