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Personal Blog of Author Kathryn Thompson

Losing in the Dark is Fun

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Correct that to read more fun.

I have some practice under my belt.

Elections for Grade 5 student body president. We write names on pieces of paper. The teacher counts them in her head (Jeff Probst could learn a thing or two about counting from Mrs. Rung) and then lets us know that I lose. So the boys didn’t like the pink frosting on my campaign cupcakes. Big dealy-o! The defeat is quick and nearly painless. Like a lip wax, just rip it off.

Senior Year of College. I’m up for a College of Fine Arts Award. We finalists embarrass ourselves in front of a panel of professors. They talk behind closed doors. A week later I get a runner-up thingy at an awards ceremony and proceed to take my date out for ice cream. We have no second date. I think he ran off with the winner.

Last night JT and his posse of BoB Award death marchers (a moment of silence to weep for their lost sleep and possibly lost minds) put up the official voting system on the site.

“Sweet,” says I. I will vote for my favorite blog.

I proceed to do so.

Up pops a results/body-count vote tally mechanism of death.

The silent scream.

The not-so-silent scream.

I say a quiet prayer that they will close the voting tomorrow. Watching these votes come in will be like watching my own demise…. in slow-motion…. on the internet…. in front of thousands of people.

Now, I’m not asking you to make me the Seabiscuit of the BoBs, but for the love of string cheese, please don’t leave little Katie out on the school ground getting her butt whipped with cupcake frosting smeared all over her hair, while thousands of 5th graders look on.

Basically, what I’m asking is that you don’t leave me hanging with one vote….cast by someone living in the greater Seattle area…..who shall not be named.

As my husband and Mr. Trump repeatedly remind us, “losing” in a contest of this
nature is not a loss, but a tenth-place finish in a large group of amazing contenders.

Yes.

And still I beg for mercy.

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Comments

  1. Caryn says

    I did my part! But I guess you knew I would, didn’t you? 😉 And it looks like you have been getting some votes. Some people are just more blatantly soliciting votes.

  4. Stephanie says

    If you win or not, I still like you, and come on, it’s kind of a little contest, don’t you think, when you consider that the current leader has 87 votes. We’re not even in the hundreds here.

  6. Liz says

    I voted for you today, and I’m trying to post right now on my blog for anyone who hasn’t already voted for you to go and do so immediately.

    Hang in there

  8. Susan says

    That little Watch The Voting As It Happens dealie is frightening, isn’t it?

    And addictive. Not that I would know. Because it’s not like I’ve been checking or anything. No sir, not me. Uh-uh. Nope.

    (I’m just happy to know about YOU, and I can thank the BoB people for that!)

  9. blackbird says

    damn.
    I got the snarky
    ‘it looks like YOU’VE already voted’
    notice.

    do I even NEED TO SAY that I did not make it to the finals?

    cause I just said it…

  10. Mom says

    Don’t look, K! It’s not good to look. It makes you crazy to look. But it’s just like when the Dr. says don’t look at this ghastly wound while I stitch it up. You know you shouldn’t, but you just can’t help yourself. It’s morbid curiosity, but what the heck!