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It is Bee Week! This year there are 293 contestants competing for the top speller honor in Washington D.C.
I have been busy trying to figure out if there is a way for Amelia and I to see it on TV. Supposedly the finals are going to be televised on ABC Thursday evening, but I found the local listings confusing and I’m not sure if this is true. Also, because I’m a recovering addict, we don’t have a television, so that complicates things further. Anyway, as a great speller wanna-be (I am a high school basketball star with Michael Jordan dreams) I find it all very exciting. Participating in the Project Read fundraiser (spelling) Bee last fall and coaching Amelia this past winter has reignited my interest in spelling bees. Fortunately, I found that the internet can help with the desire to hear all about it.
1) You can test to see whether you would have qualified for the quarterfinals last year. (Pmom: Yes! Of course since I’ve had an extra 25 years to study, I’m not sure how impressive beating out all those 11 yr olds is). Scripps will post 2009’s written test words tomorrow, I think.
2) You can check out this throwing things blog (also known as alott5ma) . Last year they offered a super play-by-play of the bee and they have a fairly comprehensive list of twitterers and bloggers concerned with this year’s bee (but check the comments on that thread, because I added another one!).
3) You can also check out biographies of the spelling bee contestants at the official Scripps site and read CNBC Darren Rovell’s picks for the kids to watch at the Bee. — Go Kavya, go!
Amelia won her school spelling bee last Friday. It was exciting for everyone who watched. The students were much better prepared than they were last year and the bee ended with three spellers who were able to go round after round after round with each other, spelling the hardest words on the list and repeatedly not missing. I was impressed with the elementary student audience. They were quiet, they paid attention, and they broke their silence to give a satisfying gasp each time a particularly difficult or unusual word was correctly spelled.
The first ever Chocolate & Garlic comment/subscribe/link contest has now officially closed. I appreciated each entry. Things are off to a good start.
To pick a winner, I assigned each unique commenter, subscriber, and/or linker (but two chances only) a number. Then I used Random.org’s random integer generator to select a winner. There were 27 entries in all. In the Pfamily household, the suspense was brief, yet intense. I was rooting for all of you! Thank goodness Random.org is quick.
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Less than a week left to enter my contest! This contest is open to everyone except Pmom and Pdad. So far the official entrants are:
1. Robin (comment)
2. Robin (subscription)
3. Julie P (comment)
4. Kacy (comment)
5. Rebecca (comment)
6. Christian F (comment)
7. zstitches (link)
8. Rachel (comment)
9. Jim F. (comment)
10. lis (comment)
11. dayna (comment)
12. liz [distinct from lis #10] (comment)
This means your chances of winning the $20 Amazon giftcard are really good! If you still wish to enter, it is possible to have up to two chances to win.
1. Make a comment on any post recent or older on this blog. The comment should not be about the contest and must be relevant to the post you are responding to. Multiple comments still earn you just one chance.
and/or
2. Subscribe to this blog in a feedreader and notify me that you have done so. E-mail me at ChocolateandGarlicatgeemail.com (do the @ and the gmail in the conventional way)
and/or
3. Link to me and notify me that you have done so.
I will use Random.org to choose the winner, January 12, 2009.
I am excited to announce my first contest! I am giving away a $20 giftcard to Amazon.
To win:
1. Make a comment on any of the posts on this blog–recent or ancient. The comment must be related to the post. (Comments such as “pick me” or “I want to win” are not eligible.)
and/or (you can have up to two possible chances to win)
2. Subscribe to the blog (Click subscribe on the top navigation bar and choose how you would like the feed delivered). I don’t know how to see who is subscribed (is there a way to do that?). So send an email saying that you subscribed to chocolateandgarlicatgeemail.com. (Fix the @ and the gmail so that they are normal).
I will randomly choose a winner January 12, 2009.
P.S. I told Pdad that I wanted to have this contest. He said, “Okay. . . but you know people will think that you are desperate for comments.” I replied: “Exactly!”