We love words, we love words, we love spelling!

mood: exhausted
music: "Why We Like Spelling" - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
random word: ursprache - a parent language, especially one reconstructed from the evidence of later languages

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13-year-old Kerry Close of Spring Lake, New Jersey won the Scripps National Spelling Bee this Thursday.

Guess where she's going to high school next year?

Hello, High Tech High :-D

(more interesting news to come later, but had to represent for HTHS before bed. For the record, I was in all the way to the second day of the Monmouth County spelling bee in 8th grade until I got out on the word "roundelay." Whatever. I'm over it.)