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I've just scheduled the first chez. With Ewok and Horace emigrating to various early events, we'll need to get cracking. Assuming at least one of them can show up—they are of the "I will camp till I get married or maybe even later" persuasion—we'll have it. Yale folk can wait, maybe, but then again, school starts so late this year, and then there's novices to contend with (with any luck), so an early start may be beneficial to one and all. Yeah. As long as there's a marginal quorum of anyone, we'll have it.
Maybe NoShow will show up. What are the odds?
I'm going to move this year's chezzes to the basement. There's chairs there now, and there's a certain debatey feel to the place. Fewer comfy chairs, to make things clear right off the bat, but that will keep down the fist fights. There's also enough computers to run NASA, but then again, I think they run NASA on a wing, a prayer and an Apple IIe, so that might not be saying much.
If there were any question that debate season has started, the offers have started pouring in to sell me things like topic briefs. These are, of course, written by experts. Curiously enough, these experts tend to be college freshman and sophomores who struck me as pretty idiotic not all that long ago. Apparently they mature quickly. To tell you the truth, I think they're missing a bet. They're willing to research for you, and write your cases for you, but why aren't they willing to debate for you too? If I ever go into the briefs business, I'm going to go all the way. Why should you have to do any work at all? Want to sleep in on Saturdays? Want to skip that hellish bus ride? Buy "Jim's Debaters." We do it all for you!
Bleeccchhh!
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