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i forgot to write here the last night of my tournament, but. i did really good.
POI got collapsed with open, but i got top novice. first place trophy! prose was novice, and i also got first place!
i got to see my cousin because she goes to UOP, so we got lunch together. it was really nice. she got to watch one of my POIs.
I'm getting put into open because i got first three times this tournament. which makes me a little nervous, since i know i likely wont break at any upcoming tournaments, but i think it'll be okay. it'll challenge me more and ill work really hard and hopefully i can start breaking into open!!
next tournament is DVC and a LOT of people are going this time (8 from my school, 5 from our sister school) so that'll be a group of 13. i wont get my own room this time, but that's okay cuz i got a little lonely last time i was alone.
i got to meet even more people and it was nice seeing faces that i saw before, so i cant wait for DVC and for spring tournaments. I'm going to try picking up either a new prose, DI, or poetry this winter and work on my duo with my teammate. my duo is probably going to be on children/relatives of incarcerated parents, cuz that's a really important topic to me and i think we can do it well.
anyway, last night was the election. i have a lot of awful feelings about it and i woke up at 5am and saw the results. it made me feel very angry and upset, but im trying to lean towards optimism and seeing what i can do, where i can volunteer, donate, etc. its really hard but i want to channel this anxiety into something good.
anyhow, today my best friend and i are going to a cafe to study for about 3 hours. i think ill buy two lattes even if that's kind of ridiculous, cuz 3 hours is a long time.