S-VE crowned 2009 Scholarship Champions! I can’t even tell you how incredibly proud of my alma mater I am. I really had very little faith in the team, since they were going up against one of the toughest schools in past years. I knew they were in the finals, since they won their qualifier round last month. Rob asked for a late shift specifically so we could go watch, rather than listen from home. I’m incredibly glad we went. It’s the second time we’ve been to a match, but the first time I’ve stayed for the whole thing. The first time I took Rob, S-VE wasn’t playing, so we didn’t stay past the first match.
It’s funny, 15 years ago, I was part of the team that got beat, quite badly. We lost out during our first match, which really shocked me, since we had quite a bright team. Or at least, it was supposed to be. We just did not do well at all. I think that it ended up being a case of not spending enough time together as a team. If I remember right, we only practiced twice. But, I digress. Saturday was fantastic. We went in early enough that they were running student vs local celebrity practice rounds and I got to have a nice conversation with the advisor for S-VE. He is one of the guidance counselors and someone that I absolutely respected beyond just about anyone. He was a lot of help and is the reason I even went to college. He encouraged me when no one else did. It was quite nice. Ironically, I found him on Facebook the other day and sent a friend request. He friended me tonight. 
Sunday was pleasant too, since Rob was off work completely. I had found that there was an event going on at the middle school to showcase local businesses, plus the school jazz band was going to perform as well. I decided that, since there was nothing else going on, we would go to it. I went specifically for the jazz band. We looked around the different booths, but it wasn’t really anything overly exciting. I did see my favorite Social Studies teacher from 7th grade. That was rather interesting. He and his wife have been retired for 13 years now. I’ve learned that a lot of the teachers that started right as I was graduating are gone already, moved on or were pushed out.
Today was nice as well. Rob was off again, so we took care of a couple errands. I just wish all the rain would stop. It’s starting to flood the river. 
It wasn’t bad today, but if the rain keeps going, it will be really quite bad. Rob has to work the rest of the week. Crappy shifts at that. 10-6 tomorrow, then 3-10 Wednesday. Then back to 11-5 and 4am-1pm. Wtf? Crazy. It’s not bad, though. I can get a lot of things done.
I needed a great weekend, since last week was utter CRAP for me. Now, however, I’m going to go watch this morning’s View episode, write up some thoughts on the new Dancing With The Stars season, then go to bed.
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I’m so glad you had a good weekend! Send some of that rain to Texas, we could use it!
You can have the rain! I think it’s finally moved onward from here. At least for a day.