Sleepy in Seattle

I’m finally back in Seattle after almost two weeks venturing around the Bay Area with my wonderful girlfriend and spending the last week in Kentucky on separate business. After a few days there, it was off to Louisville for the National Association for the Deaf convention. I was sent there by RIT to participate in NAD’s College Bowl, which was pretty much like an academic bowl where they ask you questions based on categories and each school has a team to answer them for points.  Six schools took part in this year’s College Bowl, instead of the usual three. The University of Minnesota, University of Texas, and Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf were the newcomers to this competition while Gallaudet, RIT, and CSUN were the returning schools. The top three in total points after the preliminaries would advance to the finals, and coincidentally enough RIT/Gallaudet/CSUN landed in the top three, after a mad dash for third place between three different schools.

In the finals, after two rounds it was practically too close to call. Each school took turns commanding the lead before RIT came up on top based on a question asking which city was the former capital city of Egypt before Cairo? Galladuet and CSUN answered Alexandria and Giza, respectively while RIT came up with the correct answer, Memphis. And that’s how my school broke a four game winning streak by Galluadet and won for the first time in ten years. It was still a very great experience and I thoroughly enjoyed my experience at the NAD Conference, despite all the deaf politics that seemed to heat up in the aftermath of the conference.

I’m not one to comment much on deaf politics, as those are highly debatable and often controversial. Don’t want to get into that! Anyways…

So I finally returned home, and got sick almost as soon as I landed. In my first two days back in Seattle, I’ve slept 27 hours, hence the title, Sleepy in Seattle. I’m feeling much better now though and am craving to get back outside! I haven’t driven in over two weeks so I guess I’ll be back on the roads in a few hours! (This is your warning, fellow drivers!)

See you later guys!