The Final Haul

As my high school French teacher would say, I am currently feeling "screwed, blued and tattooed" (say it with an Irish accent).

There are two more weeks of class before finals.
And I have these two papers I need to write... One is supposed to be fifteen pages, and I can't say that I've started it, yet. Every time I think, "Man, I need to work on one of those papers," I choose to work on researching the OTHER one. It's going to be an issue.

But HEY, that presentation I mentioned in my last post actually went really well! I ended up just scripting the whole thing and then looking up when I could. It was cool because it was just a conference full of history nerds, and they seemed to enjoy my research! They laughed at all the right places, and even in some unexpected ones. It was cool to have people enjoy my research as much as I have.
And there was a hot tub at the hotel we stayed at, so that was cool.
My roommate went to the conference, too, so we had an absolute ball.
Our ride up was SO NERDY.
There were four of us students along with a history professor, and our conversations were pretty much identifying favorite presidents, and postulating the political affiliations of various Disney characters. Geek squad.
And my paper DID place, which I had legitimately not expected. Here are some photos of the weekend! (which you may or may not have already seen on Facebook)

On the road!!

Lookin like a mess, but holding the coveted certificate!

All of us! You can probably guess which is my roommate. JJ, the guy in the blue shirt, took first place in the U.S. history category. 'Atta boy!

We're intense.

We were pretty stoked for the hotel...

I had the back row allllll to myself! It made it difficult to hear what Dr. Mosser was saying up front. Oh, well.

Giving my presentation! "Yanks and Franks: Franco-American Relations in WWI France." Colin came up with the "Yanks and Franks" part.

Jared, Randi, Me. Geeking out.

They served cookies during the awards ceremony.

Chipotle and frozen yogurt on the way to the conference! So excited!

I told you we were excited for the hot tub. But I had some last-minute reading to do and Randi wanted to review her presentation and we didn't want to waste any time soooo.... multi-tasking. 

I dripped my wet hair on my only copy of my scripted presentation. #Fail

Our super official name tags. My hair kept getting caught in mine...