First of all, hello to the current, former, and (hopefully) future members of the MA Quizbowl team:
Alison I, Wendell, Ghengis, Yick, McEamon, Bolton, Big Red, Alison II, Shirley McGavin, and Ernst (and Sasha Fletcher, even though he's on the Allen team, for Molly's sake)
and this year's girls' basketball varsity and JV teams:
Bubba, Statue, Warrior, CW, JJ/ Spiderwoman, Hong Kong, Mac, Bruce, Vaughn, Freshman, CB, and Smiley. The Fab Five made it to the District semifinals, and the Bomb Squad "achieved consistent discipline."
(Alison II and CB are actually me, but we can quietly ignore that fact for the moment.
Derrick, stop singing. I'm trying to work here, dammit.
Also hello to the CTY people who never come here, especially Hannah, Cyndie, Sarah, Adeetee, Damian, Kenny, Michelle, Brian, Andy, Greg, Rosie, Kaeley, Max, and many many others.
DERRICK, SHUT THE ------- ------- ---- UP!
And hello to some other rather interesting, er, acquaintainces of mine (I hesitate to call them friends as it might lead to legal trouble for me later on):
Molly Dunn, the one and only QuizBowl groupie
Christine Buzzard Baxter Fogel
Rachel Licht Sussman Sussman (not to be confused with Rachel Sussman)
Kristin "The Hobbit-Lover" Lynch
Matt Sun, who is hopefully not quite dead yet
Victoria Wallace (hello? Victoria? are you out there somewhere?)
Caroline Lehmann Wood Yoder . . . (too many to remember, rather like Claudius)
Cyndi Bottomley, with whom I have the misfortune of sharing a body
Katelyn Constantin ("PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE!")
Alison "Highly Amusing" Vasta
Tim "I Pirate From StarTrek.com Regularly and I'm Proud of It" Mullin
Phosphoglyceraldehyde, a.k.a Pawsy, a.k.a. Catso, a.k.a. General Skwinchee Nozup Pawsinator Tiggertoes Whatta-Ecka Canard Crepu Vroom-vroom Landlord Ack Lee . . . KABOOM!!!
Taylor "Deaf" Mohylsky, who should be on the QuizBowl team but is too lazy
James Thurber and Charles Dickens, even though they most certainly ARE quite dead yet
Kevin "Otto'We did not lose the Vietnam War. It was a tie.'" Kline, who does not know who I am
Ray Bradbury and Colleen Murphy, ditto.
Whoever wrote the "You thought you knew me" and "nun in a dryer" signatures in my guestbook. I suspect this person's name is Hannah Kaplan or Cyndie Granato, who are technically the same person, but I'm not sure. Suggestions, anybody?