Lotsa stuff's gonna happen this month, peeps......I'm about to engage in a 10-day whirlwind of law school finals, the Honors Write-on right after that, Mother's Day, Memoria Day, weather getting nicer (at least for those of you suckers not in SoCal- it's already real nice here), "summer" movie blockbusters, THE SPELLING BEE 2009, AND.............Your's truly's birthday. They say there's no good birthdays after 21, but I say phooey. I'm looking forward to it.
Watching 4th quarter of Bulls-Celts Game 7. I've STARTED watching in the 4th qurater of all these games, and it's STILL taken me like 2 hours every game, cuz of the overtimes. Imaine those who sit through the whole game: I'd say even money that this game goes to AT LEAST overtime.
The spelling bee page has some new features and got even more user-friendly last week sometime, and it's real nice. Check it out at (you guessed it) www.spellingbee.com What i like is the countdown feature they have......saves me some guesswork. So....yea, 23 + days till the spelling bee, folks. Heard it hear 2nd.
So 293spellers this year, i think maybe 3 or 4 (or 5?) additional added on from last year? 289 of some of the country's finest middle schoo/elemntary students.
Some observations about the field:
15 spellers from California. Cali kids tend to do well and represent......witness Evan O'Dorney in 2007.
23(!) spellers from Canada, including Anna Newcombe, Canada's rising star (see 2 posts ago), # 37.
Kyle Mou w/ the lucky 88, which must make all Chinese fortune cookies jealous. 88 in Mandarin literally menas, "luck, luck." So double luck. Probably an auspicious start.
Other returning spellers who have an outside shot at winning: Vaibhav S. Vavilala from Indiana, 4-time returnee, 17th in 2008. Matching Vaibhav's credentials is Keiko Bridwell from S. Carolina....so watch out for those two. Expereince also counts at the bee, as well as lots and lots of words under one's belt, which these returnees have.
The death knell may have sounded for the Bulls. Down 8 w/ 2:10 left. Don't turn off the TV yet though.
$30,000 in cash prizes from Scripps for the winner...........very nice. A.k.a., one semester's tuition at Yale. Still, that's a nice little scholarship that will have higher net present value after being invested for 6 or so years.
If anything, if Boston wins, people can look forward to seeing more of Brian Scalabrine and his awkward antics. He's sticks out like a sore thumb and knows it, but he plays basketball, and that's what counts.
Thursday, May 28 is when the semifinals will air on ESPN, then later in the evening is the championship rounds. Before that, on may 27, one can tune into excellent coverage (with hopefully Erin Andrews on hand) at ESPN360.com.........and that's how many days away? O yes, 23+
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
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I saw in ABC release about the Bee and Erin Andrews is back. No mention of Paul Loeffler, though. Maybe he's been replaced by Rebecca Sealfon :-)
Contenders: Don't forget Zach Zagorski. He did well last year and has a decent chance. And then Shari-Jo Miller, just because she's from Jamaica and they usually contend.
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