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Miss Editor-in-Chieftess

Well guess what.

(Yeah, I know I've severely failed in NaBloPoMo...no, guess again.)

I AM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FOR THE GREAT STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Yes, that's it. At my Y&G thing that took place ALL of Saturday, I rocked the vote and won the position. By almost 130 more votes than my opponent! It was a complete landslide. And sure, I felt bad at first--but now it feels pretty freakin' awesome.
Okay, so the day started off pretty shitty. I was nervous as hell and I had to wake up at 5 am. That wasn't fun. I drove over to the school we left from, and started riding the bus. That was all nice and dandy for about an hour, when I started watching Family Guy on this one kid's ipod. All of a sudden, my nose starts running really bad...and when I put my hand to my nose, I found that my nose was actually SPEWING BLOOD. Like in the nasty, "Holy shit, she is looking pretty pale!" way. People started throwing little things of tissues at me, and shouting out directions. This is only the second time (in my entire life) that this has ever happened to me, so I was a little freaked out.
"Tilt your head back!"
"Pinch your nose!"
"NO, don't tilt your head back, you'll give yourself an aneurysm!"
"Alexa...are you okay?!?!?"
So after bleeding through (ha ignore the pun) an entire pack of tissues, bleeding profusely on my jacket and sweater, and overall looking like I killed someone (with all the blood on my hands) it finally stopped, and I got a chance to clean myself up. It was insane, and I was shaking a lot. I grabbed someone's Tide-to-Go pen and attacked the blood on my sweater, which faded enough that I could forget about it. I got laughed at a good portion of the day, but honestly, what can you do, except move on...and besides, more embarassing shit has happened.
We got to the school, and listened to opening remarks--then it was time for my FIRST speech. It was in front of everyone--about ½ an auditorium full of people. I was nervous as hell--even AFTERWARDS I was shaking. The kid I talked to in the hallway after was like, "You just gave your speech, WHY are you still shaking?!?"
Then, the whole first half of the day consisted of giving speeches to every delegation--that wasn't entirely horrible, except for the one delegation that made me do the "Soulja Boy" dance--which I don't even know how to do, so DON'T ask me! Haha.

We broke for lunch (lovely helpings of pizza, soda, and cookies!). Two of my friends and I were the absolute first people to get there, so we sat wherever we wanted. Things started to get a little weird from that point--one friend sat on either side of me. Then when people started coming into the cafeteria, our entire table filled up--FAST. And shall I mention--the entire table was made up of guys (and my one girl friend). Like, I dunno why this was so weird to me--I guess I just wasn't used to being so popular--of all nerds, no less! So yes, our entire table was guys...that stopped talking and sat at rapt attention whenever I started talking. It was...really odd. Might as well call me Queen of the Nerds or something!

The afternoon was when the ballots came in. I won't explain the entire process, but I won! It was so tense at first...but then my jaw dropped WIDE OPEN when I beat my opponent by 137 votes! So I am officially the Editor-in-Chief of Model, that thing we go to in April. Did I mention, I had two guys sitting on either side of me for that one too? It was like, Jesus Christmas! Guys have never paid that much attention to me, lmao!

The bus ride home was pretty crazy--we didn't get home until 8pm--a full 15 hours after we left! We got into a lot of trouble, with prank-phone calls and beating the crap outta each other...my one friend (that sat with me at lunch) shoved me into the bus window, and I got a nice-sized bruise on my shoulder. But it really doesn't matter, because I had a LOT of fun.
Imagine this kind of seating with twenty 15/16/17 year olds. "We're not doing anything wrong...!"

My goodness, what a long entry, huh? Haha. Well, I must be going, for I am off school and I should be getting my massive amounts of homework done. But I promise I'll fill you in on some...other happenings tomorrow. =)

Comments

C. said…
Congratulations! That sounds awesome. Well, not the bleeding part so much, but the rest of it.
November 12, 2007 at 4:45:00 PM EST
Lauren said…
thanks for checking out my blog! im loving yours!
:)
November 15, 2007 at 8:38:00 PM EST
alexgirl said…
Congrats on becoming editor in chief! That rocks. You're such a smartie! Sorry about the nose bleed though. Those are the worst. Hope the popularity doesn't go to your head. just kidding!
November 16, 2007 at 2:15:00 PM EST
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