what is up my guys

blogging live in ocean city right now (as if the majority of people who'd be reading this aren't literally also here)

it is currently friday, christmas 106th, and it is quite warm in this god forsaken tourist town (like 70 degrees or something, dunno)

i am not particularly enjoying the weather conditions, i have been consistently too hot by just enought to be uncomfortable, or too cold to the point i'm shivering in my trashy tennis shoes

speaking of shoes, my dress shoes are actually really awful, and i have no idea how i wore them so much consistently in atlanta last summer
that was crazy of me, because it is considerably cooler here than it was in georgia, yet i am much more temperature-sensitive here

maybe it has to do with the fact that atlanta was really dry or that i've been terribly messed up this entire trip so far, but i digress

i was pretty anxious leading up to this trip, and then upon getting here, it was alright initially, but then there was the weather being gross (i prefer winter if you couldn't tell) and me being extremely hungry and having a really bad headache that didn't go away after i drank water and took advil so that was super fun

i also kept stressing excessively over my objective test, which in all fairness, was probably fair to do, but was also really terrible because that was the major source of my issues going into this trip

i tried studying for it which went alright, but having now taken my test, it turns out like half of the questions that were on the test i took today were on the 2016 released test that i was using to practice this morning, but i didn't look at the answer key for that test because i didn't finish it so i genuinely have no idea how i did on that

i really hope i beat lc, i feel pretty confident that i did, but i don't know if i did good enough to move onto nationals
there were several women in my event who definitely looked like they were academic weapons guys
i am still stressing but slightly less, yknow?

it's over with, it's done, i have taken two showers so far today, and the second one did a pretty good job at resetting the vibes, only issue is my hair is still wet and i don't wanna use the hair dryer cuz that's loud but that's a me issue so whatever

it is what it is
afterall, the oyster is your clamshell

yeah
that's definitely it

anyways, i am very hungry still so i might doordash something now that i am back at my hotel room writing this blog post instead of doing the workshops i'm supposed to do

also forgot to mention, i got to be a voting delegate for south river so i had to go meet the state office candidates and hear their pitches

i voted for darica obviously for region 3 vice president, not sorry connor (cf?????)
she used several of the fun persuasion tactics that schrader taught us, including reciprocity (gave me sunglasses (they were pretty cool (it definitely worked))), authority (she does a lotta clubs and stuff (sga (connor also does sga))), and also kinda consistency and liking (she brought up stuff during her pitch that she mentioned in her speech this morning, also brought up stuff that people (me) would agree with to make her more likable)

all around, pretty W of her
she was a lot more interesting that connor, also she had a trifold board and connor didn't, and connor wasn't supporting sarah's campaign for president soooooo too bad for bro

i also had to go talk to the secretary-treasurers, i really liked this one girl jocelyn who had a really great pitch that was a good mixture of secretary and treasurer, unlike the other two that i spoke to
maha was pretty alright, but jocelyn brought up the corruption and embezzlement from last year, and was like "i wanna make the money stuff more transparent to all of maryland fbla" and i was like "very nice"

she is a sophomore currently, but i see no reason why she wouldn't be able to hold office (sarah was a sophomore when she ran technically), and overall she seemed like the best option

but yeah, did the voting and then went to chill, currently chilling and am feeling much better than i was for all of yesterday and last night and this morning

i did not sleep well at all last night

but this is enough for this post, i'll make another once the conference is over and i find out if i'm actually trash or not

cheers

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