What Tiffany did relative to what these others did, we're hoping for, I don't know, five years. But really, I have no clue what the judge is going to do.

It was a good experience for us. We got valuable experience that should benefit us when we return there for the state meet on Feb. 11.

I'm looking forward to seeing a good show from all of the kids competing. When they leave here at the end of the day, I want them to feel like they've been a part of something special.

I would much rather put together a big meet with a lot of teams instead of simply a dual meet. Big meets get the athletes' competitive juices flowing. It generates excitement because they want to see how they measure up against quality competition. And fans want to see that, too.

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.