Oh noes.

I'm obviously falling for Key's charms again. Shoot. I'm going to return to my i-seriously-have-no-life-at-all stage, now.

lovely.

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSIS

omg. i still know it. known it since the fifth grade, yo.

Did I tell you

that I used to be even more obsessed? I had like 380 pictures of him in my other laptop (that i need to transfer to this one haha) and I had him as my screensaver. I also at one point wanted to print all the pictures and put them to my wall, but I decided I didn't have enough. It's not called stalking if I wasn't the one holding the camera.

Man, I wish I could be pretty enough for key.

He's so hot. *Q*

Expectations If Wanting To Be A Debator

Tournaments are your friends

You get a free one hundred--major grade. Shooting, scoring. Lovely because it will bring your grade up from all your other screwups in the year.

Kissing up to your teacher will only help

If your debate coach is anything like Ballow, you'll need to kiss up to her for a better grade. She'll let you have your suitable time to finish your cases and pros and cons and such. Otherwise, you're just going to have to deal with one-day major projects.

Don't be expecting to have dinner with your family

Don't be expecting to have it with your friends, either. You will spend your time either working, or catching up on work. It takes up over a few hours to do each case. And your debate homework after your cases. And then your normal school life.

In order to succeed, you must breath, sweat, and bleed debate

True, indeed. If you wanna be like, the top of the class debater, you can't focus on anything but debate, really. Chances are, your debate club's president is going to be in all regs, barely passing. He probably will know all debate forms, but he'll drop all his GPAs for it, too.

A debater never has a good hair day

Unless you are some god/goddess that doesn't stress when five major assignments are due the day after they're assigned, you will not have the looks. I tried. I was like "shoot, I'ma be a cute nerd, yo!" LOL. not gonna happen.

Don't expect to pass the first few six weeks

I mean, I can ace my Pre-AP and AP classes, but in debate, I've failed countless times. Luckily, my kissing up skills have improved and I ended up passing the first semester.

Eat or sleep

That's like Ballow's catch phrase. If you do both, you're lazy, apparently. If you do neither, you're a good debater. Negen (one of the debaters in my class that we all look up to) doesn't eat or sleep. Why do you think we all worship her? Not only her, but even the kids at the bottom of the class (like me LOL) don't eat or sleep on tournament days. I wake up at five am, and go home at 11. If I still want to live, I'll probably eat a small snack before shower and bed so I can wake up at 5 the next day, but most likely, after one of those days, I wouldn't care if I died.

You don't get a credit for merely taking the class

You'll have to get credit by exam. Sure, you can put in your job resumes that you're in the Debate Team, but you can't count it as a speech credit unless you CBE.

It's very, very political, and it's very, very current

Debating about cars needing to be more environmental or not? Psh, that's so last century. Expect topics you've never heard about, then coming up with a speech in 30 minutes. *Includes time to memorize your speech, too. But it's not like it's for a grade or anything. PAHAHAH. I just go for the hundred and make a fool out of myself. I just keep telling myself: "I'll pull up my grade, I'll pull up my grade, I'll pull up my grade". It doesn't really matter if you win or lose, unless you're aiming for the varsity team.