DECA Competition

it was awesome.
what more can i say?
lauren and i went in there, sat down, saw our assignment and both let out a simultaneous, "Crap".
our assignment was to design an identity theft protection plan for a 5 star hotel that had recently had a major corporation have their meeting there.
after their meeting, they left all their invoice, receipts and the such in the conference room.
later, another guest came along, and stole the identities of all the ceo's.
it basically boiled down to upgrading all the locks in the hotel, upgrading everything to a digital system, including a guest database from which we would delete our guests' information upon their request at checkout, and training all the employees to better monitor the entire hotel, and how to react appropriately if such a situation did occur again.
we went into the judging room, and the first person i saw was this sweet little old lady, so i thought we were good.
no.
we had some mean-looking middle-aged man, who, had a way of looking at me that made me feel like whatever i said was the complete opposite of what i should be saying.
i assumed we wouldn't win anything, because i thought i had screwed it up for the both of us, but turns out we were both acknowledged for our test scores as well as our role play, and ended up placing 3rd in our event overall.
it was freaking awesome.
but after we received our trophies, medals and plaques, the judges told us that we had tied dead-on with Nick Mahaffey's team, and so they split up the awards, giving each team on e trophy and one plaque, thus each person only receiving one item.
i was pretty pissed but they said that they were going to mail the other items later, so that's straight.
and if i had to tie with someone, i'm glad it was at least a friend of mine.
i had intended to get some Christmas shopping done at hanes mall during our lunch break, but ended up not finding anythinng for anyone, but instead buying myself an Appalachian hat.
i always do that.
i go into a store with the full intent of buying someone for someone else, and end up buying myself a bunch of crap.
oh well.
all in all, it was an awesome day and an awesome experience and i'm glad that i was able to participate in it.
that's it.
matlock out.