Back from DC

The team and I are back from DC, and the team with a few new resume lines at that. Ashley was awarded Best Advocate of the competition, Trevor was complimented with the highest technical score on the brief (which he particularly focused on), and Trevor and Ashley together won second place in the competition.

The final round was against Brigham Young University, the same school that took second place when Nate and I won in 2007 and that also took second place last year to I believe Duke's first place. I thought Ashley and Trevor performed tremendously in the final round and I would have given them the nod. But BYU's team, who we had also competed against in the quarter-finals, really pulled out all its stops in the final round and did quite well. We were told that the judges had difficulty picking who won and many of the scoring was 2-1 in favor of one school or the other, with both FSU and BYU winning out in different scoring categories. Trevor and Ashley will get their actual scores at a later date.

I did not do as much walking around DC as I have in previous years because our flight on Sunday was at 8 a.m., meaning we got to the airport at around 6. I also did not feel 100% well and so I opted not to go walking about for a long period. But I did walk over to the Washington Monument, from which I could see the Lincoln and WWII monuments. I enjoyed the brief walk.

Now that I am back in Tallahassee and moot court has concluded I will return to the same sorts of things I had been doing in December and the months prior to that: searching for a position for later in 2009, working on side projects (both employment-related, like the annual Handbook update, and personal, like my friend's wedding video), and the regular around-the-house maintenance (including trying to revive our plate coral which is not doing well).

We hope to see you all soon.